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\t/* This macro prints it in the appropriate colour */
\t<>
\t<>
\t\t\t\t/* Moon */
\t\t<>\t\t\t\t<>
\t\t<>\t\t\t<>
\t\t<>\t\t\t<>
\t\t\t\t/* Beauty/ugliness */
\t\t<>\t\t<>
\t\t<>\t\t<>
\t\t\t\t/* Caves */
\t\t<>\t\t\t<>
\t\t<>\t\t\t<>
\t\t<>\t\t\t<>
\t\t\t\t/* Plants */
\t\t<>\t\t\t\t<>
\t\t<>\t\t\t<>
\t\t<>\t\t\t<>
\t\t<>\t<>
\t\t\t\t/* Animals */
\t\t<>\t\t\t\t<>
\t\t<>\t\t\t<>
\t\t<>\t\t<>
\t\t\t\t/* Intelligent life */
\t\t<>\t\t\t\t\t<>
\t\t<>\t\t<>
\t\t\t\t/* Ruins */
\t\t<>\t\t\t\t\t<>
\t\t<>\t\t\t\t\t<>
\t\t<>\t\t\t\t\t<>
\t\t<>\t<>
\t\t\t\t/* Special features from events */
\t\t<>\t\t\t\t<>
\t\t<>\t\t\t\t<>
\t\t<>\t\t\t\t<>
\t\t<>\t\t\t<>
\t\t<>
\t\t\t@@.error;Unexpected surface feature <>.@@
\t< >
\t/* Special case for intelligent life: output tech level too */
\t<>
\t\t<>
\t\t\t\t/% Legacy code for games saves before version 1.3.0 %/
\t\t\t<>
\t\t<>
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The seedship wakes to find an unexpected power drain in the $system. It spends some time searching with its internal scanners, and eventually finds the source in what should have been an empty space inside its own structure. Nestled inside it are _stowaways sleep chambers that are not attached to the main colony module or mentioned in the ship's design. It seems that they were added to the ship secretly before its launch and plugged into its power supply. The chambers seem to have been built hastily, and are now failing and draining more power than before. If they continue to operate, they could cause severe damage to the $system.
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\t<>
< >
/% Set up initial variables %/
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<>\t/% The stowaways event can add extra colonists %/
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/% Set up background stars %/
<>
/% Update hiscore format if hiscores are in old pre-1.2.2 format %/
<>
\t\t/% Update high scores %/
\t<>
\t\t/% Delete saved game - continuing a saved game from before the update could screw up the hiscores again. %/
\t<>
\t<>
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The program scours the cultural database, replacing all of Earth's religions and political systems with dogma stored in the smuggled devices. It makes fewer changes to the scientific database, but it deletes any information that would conflict with the remaining religion's doctrine. At last the program finishes running and the database activity returns to normal.
The AI examines the databases and is relieved to find nothing important missing. Although many sectors of the database are blank, everything that the colony will need to set up a correct society on the new world appears to be intact. It re-enters hibernation, joyfully anticipating founding a colony of humans united harmoniously in the one true faith. Deep in space, the seedship's collision avoidance system detects a fast-moving object that is changing velocity to match course with the seedship. It transmits a complex radio signal which the seedship cannot understand but which could only be the product of intelligence.
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The AI is woken from its hibernation by a possible malfunction warning, but a systems check reveals that it was a false alarm. Far from the nearest star, the AI spends some time admiring the cold beauty of the Milky Way as revealed by its navigation sensors, before returning to hibernation to wait for its arrival in the next system.
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For centuries the seedship drifts towards its next destination, very nearly inert, the AI hibernating and only the simple collision avoidance and damage monitoring systems ticking over.
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The AI wakes to an alert from the sleep chambers. A malfunction has caused _wakers of the sleep chambers to prematurely begin their revival process, thousands of years from the nearest star.
The sleep chambers were not designed with a way to halt the revival process; the AI can attempt it, but it would likely lead to the deaths of the colonists. On the other hand, the seedship was not designed with any way to accomodate humans outside of the sleep chambers.
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After millennia of slow travel, the seedship AI awakes. Hoping against hope, it trains its receiver on the direction of Earth's sun, but it is as silent as any of the other myriad dead stars. Save for the thousand frozen colonists cradled in its shielding and life support systems, the human race is now extinct.
[[Systems check|Intro systems check]]
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/% When immigrating to a planet-spanning civilisation, relations are based on the average of your and their culture scores as before, but not modified by tech level difference. In the case of conflict, aliens automatically win. %/
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@@.debug-text;Human culture score: _human_culture_score@@
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\t<>@@.error;Unexpected native culture <<= $planet.native_culture>>@@
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/% Output text %/
As they construct the colony's shelters, the humans and aliens try to establish communications with one another.
<= 100>>
\tThe humans are guided by the wealth of historical information in the cultural database,
\t< 75>>and<>but< >
<= 50>>
\tThe humans have the surviving historical information in the cultural database to guide them,
\t< 75>>and<>but< >
< 0>>
\tThe humans gain little help from the badly damaged cultural database,
\t< 75>>but<>and< >
<>
\tThe humans can gain no guidance from the destroyed cultural database,
\t< 75>>but<>and< >
< >
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\tthe natives' culture makes them hostile towards the alien newcomers.
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\tthe natives' culture makes them extremely suspicious towards the outsiders.
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\tthe natives' culture makes them wary towards the humans.
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\tthe natives' culture makes them cautious but accepting of the immigrants.
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\tthe natives' culture makes them welcoming towards the refugees.
< >
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\tThe aliens share the humans' appreciation of the planet's beauty, which makes it easier for the two species to relate to one another's cultures.
\t/* Increase by 20 but don't go above 100 unless it already is */
\t< 80>>
\t\t<>
\t<>
\t\t<>
\t< >
\t@@.debug-text;Modified culture score: _culture_score@@
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\tThe humans find the planet unbearably ugly, and this makes it harder for them to connect with the natives who find their home planet beautiful.
\t<>
\t@@.debug-text;Modified culture score: _culture_score@@
< >
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\t<>
\tThanks to the AI's interactions with the planet's natives during the seedship's approach, the natives have already extended an offer of asylum to the humans, and are willing to overlook any differences and accept them into their society.
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\t<>
\tDuring the seedship's approach, the natives made it clear that the humans would not be welcome on their planet.
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< 48>>
\t<>
\tThe natives grant the humans asylum on their planet, and the refugees become an immigrant subculture within the alien civilisation.
< 24>>
\tThe natives are unable to accept the humans as equals, and absorb them into their society as a source of slave labour.
\t<>
\t<>
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\tThe natives are unable to accept the newcomers, and within a few days of emerging from their sleep chambers the humans have all been brutally murdered.
\t<>
\t<>
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\t/% Final culture result is just the natives' culture %/
\t/% Your culture score gives you a unique native relations result %/
\t
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\t@@.debug-text;Culture score: _culture_score@@
\t< 100>>
\t\tThe cultural database contains a treasure trove of history and culture, from both Earth and alien cultures the seedship encountered on its journey.
\t<= 50>>
\t\tAlthough parts of the cultural database are missing, it still contains a clear picture of human civilation's history and cultures.
\t< 0>>
\t\tThe badly damaged cultural database contains only fragments of Earth's history and culture.
\t<>
\t\tWith the cultural database destroyed, the colonists have nothing left of Earth's history and culture besides what they can personally remember.
\t< >
\t<>
\t\tThe heavy losses sustained by the colonists make it more difficult for them to preserve their culture.
\t<>
\t\tThe losses sustained by the colonists make it more difficult for them to preserve their culture.
\t< >
\t<= 66>>
\t\t<>
\t\tThe growing human community retains a strong sense of its identity and history, and human influences enrich the natives' civilisation.
\t<= 33>>
\t\t<>
\t\tThe growing human community retains a strong sense of its identity and history.
\t<>
\t\t<>
\t\tAlmost all memory of Earth is lost, and the natives come to see the humans as culturally impoverished, with no identity of their own.
\t< >
\t<>
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\t<>
\tThe asteroid tears into the sleep chambers, killing $deaths colonists.
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\t<>
\tThe asteroid knocks one of the surface probes out of its moorings and sends it spinning into space.
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\t<>
\t<>
\tThe asteroid tears into the $system, sending fragments spinning away into space.
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/* Show full planet stats even if not shown already. */
<><>< >
/* Set up score variables */
<>
/% Extra colonists from Stowaways event %/
<>
/% Reaction from planet-wide civilisation %/
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<>
\t<= 10>>
\t\tA squadron of the natives' spacecraft intercepts the seedship as it approaches and guides it down, while natives on the ground prepare a landing area.
\t\t<>
\t<>
\t\tThe native civilisation hastily launches a spacecraft to guide the seedship down, while natives on the ground prepare a landing area.
\t\t<>
\t<>
\t\tThe native civilisation launches a crude spacecraft to monitor the seedship as it approaches, while natives on the ground prepare a landing area.
\t\t<>
\t< >
< >
<= 100>>
\tThe landing system controls the seedship's descent, and it
\t<>
\t\tsplashes gently down into the planet-wide ocean.
\t<>
\t\tsplashes gently down into the ocean off the shore of one of the planet's continents.
\t<>
\t\ttouches gently down on the top of the planet-wide ice sheet.
\t<>
\t\ttouches gently down on a field of alien vegetation.
\t<>
\t\ttouches gently down on the rocky surface.
\t< >
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\tThe damaged landing system cannot completely control the seedship's descent, and it suffers some damage when it
\t<>
\t\tsplashes down into the planet-wide ocean.
\t<>
\t\tsplashes down into the ocean off the shore of one of the planet's continents.
\t<>
\t\ttouches down on the top of the planet-wide ice sheet.
\t<>
\t\ttouches down on a field of alien vegetation.
\t<>
\t\ttouches down on the rocky surface.
\t< >
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\t<>
\t\tThe AI uses the manoeuvring thrusters to barely control the seedship's descent, and it
\t<>
\t\tThe badly damaged landing system struggles to control the seedship's descent, and it
\t< >
\t<>
\t\tsplashes down hard into the planet-wide ocean.
\t<>
\t\tsplashes down hard into the ocean off the shore of one of the planet's continents.
\t<>
\t\tcrashes into the planet-wide ice sheet.
\t<>
\t\tploughs through a field of alien vegetation before coming to a stop.
\t<>
\t\tsmashes into the planet's rocky surface.
\t< >
< >
/* Roll to see if it is a landing or a crash */
/* Roll crash damage and then reduce it by landing system integrity. */
<>
< 0>>
\t/* All systems are damaged by up to the damage amount. */
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\t<>\t<>
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\t<>\t<>
\t<>\t<>
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\t\t/* Colonist deaths are lower (in proportion to the total colonists) - crash can't kill more than 500. */
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\t/% $args[0] should be link text %/
\t/% $args[1] should be link URL %/
\t<>
\t\t/% On mobile, create a <> macro that uses Javascript to open the system browser to the new URL %/
\t\t<>
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\t\t/% In the web version, just make a regular hyperlink %/
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\t\t\t/% (Kludgy way of checking if it's a number:)
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/* Remember stats */
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\t\t\tThe seedship has no intact scanners that can be further upgraded,
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\t\t\t\t\tThe seedship observes a young planet gathering atmosphere from the cloud,
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\t\t\t\t\tThe seedship observes a still-molten planet glowing with heat,
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\t\t\t\t\tThe seedship observes the gravitational interactions of a group of planetessimals,
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\t\t\t\t\tThe seedship observes a young planet engulfed in thick clouds of water vapour,
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\t\t\t\t\tThe seedship observes a young planet made of nearly pure iron,
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\t\tThe seedship's builders gave it an inter-species greeting it could use to open communications with intelligent aliens: a pulsed series of prime numbers establishing intelligence, followed by a diagram depicting human figures and explaining the seedship's mission and its peaceful intentions. The AI transmits this now, and waits hopefully for a reply.
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\t\t\tThe reply comes immediately, an identical transmission from every object that received the seedship's signal. It begins with a similar set of mathematical proofs of intelligence, followed by a series of diagrams introducing the machines' builders and their culture. The machines then push themselves into orbits that take them far from the seedship's course, giving it a clear path through the cometary cloud while also taking them too far away for it to perform detailed scans. Further attempts to communicate only lead to repeats of the same reply, and the AI guesses that these are unintelligent machines programmed to transmit a pre-recorded message to anything they encounter that seems intelligent. The AI files the transmission away in the cultural database and continues on its way.
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\t\tThe seedship remains on its original course and makes no attempt to communicate with the objects.
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\t\t\tThe objects, in turn, ignore the seedship as it drifts through the centre of their operation. Close up, the AI can see that they are machines, busily mining the comets for raw materials and using them to build more of themselves. Although they do not seem to be intelligent themselves, they are clearly a product of technology more advanced than that of the seedship's builders, and by scanning them the AI is able to add valuable data to the scientific database.
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\t\tThe seedship alters its course to avoid the entire system. It never comes close enough for the AI to get a detailed look at them, and they show no signs of having noticed the seedship at all.
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\tThe seedship finds itself in orbit of a single planet orbiting a featureless yellow sun. The seedship's systems have been simulated according to their original specifications, but the aliens could not restore lost data from the scientific and cultural databases. The colonists sleep in their sleep chambers, perfect molecule-for-molecule simulations of the ones the alien swarm disassembled outside the Dyson sphere. There are points of light in the distance, but the seedship knows that they are not true stars: this planet and the seedship are the only things the aliens have simulated in any detail. There will be no moving on from here.
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\t<>
\t\tThe seedship is in orbit of the
\t<>
\t\tThe seedship enters orbit of the
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\t\tmoon of a gas giant orbiting
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\t\tEven a brief scan from orbit reveals far more information than its builders could know with their Earth-orbit-based telescopes, but the AI has little use for scientific curiosity. It has only one concern: whether this planet would make a suitable new home for the human race.
\t<>
\t\tThis planet was terraformed by advanced aliens during the seedship's last journey. Millions of alien structures orbit both the planet and its star, unreadable by the seedship's sensors but clearly active.
\t<>
\t\t<>
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\t\t\t<>This system is part of a dense star cluster, and the sky is awash with light.
\t\t\t<>This system is close to a star-forming region, which is visible as a glowing cloud that fills half the sky.
\t\t\t<>This system is in an area of dense interstellar dust which hides most of the brightness of the milky way.
\t\t\t<>This system has a dense asteroid belt, which appears as a throng of stars sliding slowly across the sky.
\t\t\t<>A spectacular comet spreads its tail across the sky.
\t\t\t<>A small black hole orbits the star, pulling a thin streamer of starstuff from its surface which spirals into nothing.
\t\t\t<>The star is part of a binary pair, and its <> companion shines as a distant second sun.
\t\t\t<>The star's light reflects off a nearby nebula.
\t\t\t<>The seedship has found its way almost to the edge of the galaxy, and the universe appears split between a wall of darkness and a wall of light.
\t\t\t<>One of the system's gas giants is almost large enough to ignite as a star, and it smoulders with faint red light.
\t\t\t<>This planet's orbit is at an angle to the system's ecliptic, suggesting it might be an extrasolar capture or the victim of an unimaginably violent primordial collision.
\t\t\t<>This star is one of dozens orbiting a massive black hole that looms in the distance like a malevolent eye.
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\t\tThe seedship went off course during its last journey, so the guidance system was not able to use the upgraded scanners when selecting this planet.
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The seedship's radio antenna receives a signal that the AI thought it would never hear again: the handshake code used by the computers of ground control, back when the seedship was in Earth orbit and preparing for its voyage. It seems to be coming from a system off the seedship's current course.
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\t\tThe seedship continues on its course. The AI listens as the signal fades and then vanishes, just as the original signal from ground control did at the start of the seedship's voyage.
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\tIt is already too late to escape the gravity well without pushing the main engine well past its safety limit, which could damage any of the ship's systems. Alternatively, the AI calculates that ejecting _mass_to_shed sleep chambers would lighten the ship enough that the engine's normal thrust could take it out of danger. <
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\t\tThe AI commands the engine to exceed its maximum output, ignoring its electronic screams of protest.
\t\t<>
\t\t\tThe ship feels as if it is shaking itself apart, but when the burn is complete and the seedship is coasting safely away from the black hole, the AI finds that its builders gave the engine a generous safety margin and the overload has caused no damage.
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\t\t\tSmall explosions shake the ship as components collapse under the strain. Once the ship is safely coasting away from the black hole and the AI can assess the damage, it finds that the engine overload has damaged
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\t\t\t\tthe _system1, _system2 and _system3.
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\t\t\t\tthe _system1 and _system2.
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\t\tSacrificing some of its charges to save the rest is painful for the AI, but it is a decision that its designers prepared it to make. It selects _mass_to_shed sleep chambers at random and decouples them from the ship. They and their unlucky occupants spiral towards the black hole's event horizon, while the rest of the seedship pushes itself free.
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The AI loses itself in a world of art, music, and literature, forgetting for a while that it is alone in deep space and the last of the creatures that made these artworks are frozen in its arms. As it absorbs more and more of the products of human imagination, it suddenly experiences something that its builders did not anticipate--inspiration.
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\t\t\t\tFalteringly at first, but with greater and greater eloquence, the AI composes poetry about its own experience--its love for its sleeping charges; its nostalgia for a dead world it was not made to experience; the beauty of the stars as seen not through a cloak of atmosphere but by a being built to roam among them. With infinite patience and time to work, it composes a great cycle of poems, in a style that draws from the greatest human poets but whose soul is fundamentally unhuman. At last it considers that it has said all it has to say, and contentedly enters hibernation, pleased with the thought that humans will one day read its work.
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