Moon Base One  - "The Plot"

 

Rules - Change all of this at will.  You can check revisions with the button at the top.  Highlight new changes that are important in yellow, highlight things that need to be fixed in pink, recently updated in orange. If there's a question, discuss it by posting on the forum at: http://moonbaseone.blogspot.com/

 

Intro (Voice Over - Recorded, to be converted and added to the game):

 

June, 2030:

Your volunteer application for a six week assignment to Moon Base One has been approved! As a contractor working for FOGE Inc., we are very proud of the studying and effort you have shown. Your hard work has paid off.

As you know, FOGE Inc. is one of the World’s lead stellar contracting firms. We are the best engineers and scientist available for hire!

NASA has just approved a contract for us to accomplish Phase 3 of the Moon Base One expansion. We will be improving existing facilities, and adding state of the art factories, robotics and infrastructure. Your success here is required for us to be funded to work on Phase 4. Your friends at FOGE are counting on you.

Over the next few weeks, your task is to set up an automatic mining process. Find enough materials from the lunar Regolith to build more robots and enhancements to the base. We'll give you specific tasks of what to build, but finding enough raw materials is paramount!

Now that you are here, get acquainted with the mining outpost at the base of the hill. The main Moon Base One structure is about a Kilometer to the South. Your room is in that main base - we have a rover assigned to you that can drive there. There should be a jetpack near here that will also help you fly around in the low gravity. Be careful on your landings - we've had many employees sprain their ankles from coming down too fast.

We'll call you on your inner-suit comm. radio when we have specific missions to do. From all of us watching your every move from back on Earth, FOGE Inc wishes you good luck. Have fun building the future of mankind!  We're counting on you.

 

The Plot:

The year is 2030.  Rob Hegg stands atop the jagged mountains of the south side of the moon.  Early in the 21^st century, humanity came to the moon to extend humanity’s presence across the solar system.  The moon is the first step.  The quest to find extraterrestrial life has always been a driving force behind humankind’s expansion into the solar system.  That, and the calling to venture into the unknown causes mankind to invest in its future by exploring and colonizing space.  For the creative minded, employing space technology could bring untold riches in new commercial ventures.

 

Neither the early robotic probes, nor the humans that created them could have predicted the tremendous possibilities for humanity to be found in the chemical composition of the moon.  Helium Three, the key to clean fusion power, was abundant in the hostile environment of the moon.  It was no longer just exploring space, but exploiting it, which brought the humans.  The possibilities for commercial growth and the development of wealth exceeded beyond belief.  Scientists on Earth worked to perfect the processes for creating power from Helium Three that could provide near limitless clean energy for the entire planet.  The hopes of billions of people rested with this precious element.  So too did the fears of millions. 

 

The development of limitless clean energy threatened nations all over the world.  It threatens the empires, money, and power of those who produce fossil fuels.  There are many powerful people, organizations, and countries who would love to see Moon Base One fail; so many in fact, that an increasing number of people believe equipment failures and other strange happenings are sabotage.  There is no evidence of this claim.  Still, inhabitants are warned to check everything and to be on the look out for “substandard equipment”.

 

Much of Moon Base One is buried beneath 5 meters of lunar regolith and soil.  The lunar soil is an effective means of protecting its inhabitants from the intense radiation emanating from space and the nearby sun.  Moon Base One has a short supply chain to Earth and orbiting space stations.  Arrival of supply vehicles is a normal part on base operations.  Moon Base One has begun producing helium 3 in ample quantities to meet Earth’s power needs.  Moon Base One also supports nearby mining operations and fuel production for rockets bound for the Red Planet. 

 

 

Current Game Landscape: (Bugs or not finished yet shown in pink, recently added in orange)

 

- You start on a hill

  -- There is a satelite dish behind you

  -- There is a jetpack on the ground in front of you (Walking into it equips the Jetpack - jetpack doesn't have smoke yet)

  -- There is another astronaut next to you to give you your first mission (not added yet)

  -- The astronaut gives you a mining drill and instructs you that pushing the mouse button triggers it (and makes you get down to dig) (mission not added yet)

  -- You have a breathtaking view of the Mining Outpost

 

- At the base of the hill (you either fall down it without the pack, or use the pack to go down gracefully)

  -- There are two Rovers waiting for you - a buggy and a boxed tank

  -- Parts of the outpost are already built, some of the buildings are only halfway built (Currently all are showing, I'll partially remove others later)

  -- A Mining drone is sitting by, out of service, with smoke coming out of it (no smoke yet, will respond to questions later)

  -- A construction terminal is available, where you bring materials and order objects/buildings to be built (not added yet)

  -- There is a chasm with some spilt industrial waste

  -- Another astronaut is running back and forth from the mining outpost to a driller (mining device) in a crater to the right

      --- When you approch him, he shouts that he's too busy getting minerals to repair the base -- and not to bother him (sometimes gets stuck on rocks)

 

- Mining rocks are scattered throughout the landscape

  -- Walking up to a rock will "mine" it, by drilling pieces off of it (rock shrinks, you get minerals, sound plays, animation triggers)

  -- You can also mine anywhere on the ground by pushing the mouse left button

 

- The main Moon Base One is about a mile to the North - you can either fly there, drive there or walk there

  -- The Moon Base has a big entryway facing the Mining Outpost (not added yet)

  -- When you approach MBO, you walk inside into your room (now, you are teleported there, add a fade and more tunnels later)

  -- You have a personal room inside the base, which heals you when you enter it (maybe have a medic inside to help?)

 

 

Missions for characters:

 - Mine minerals to help improve the Mining Outpost (implied -- in opening script)

 - Repair the communication radar (mission -- given by starting Astronaut)

 - Take the mining gun (object -- given by starting Astronaut after the radar is fixed)

 - Take the Jetpack (implied -- in front of you at starting position) 

 - Fix the initial mining bot (mission -- given when you approach the bot, bring a circuit board from MBO)

 - Finish building the Mining Outpost (mission -- given by a communication from NASA)

 - Build more drillers, and position them (mission -- give by running astronaut)

 - Build more mining bots (mission -- given by the mining bot)

 - Clean up the chemical spill (mission -- given by a communication from NASA) 

 

Sounds needed:

 - Voice reading opening scene (recording...)

 - Small electric sounds of radar dish

 - Electirc hum of equipment

 - "Oof my ankle" when falling

 - "Oh, that hurt" when falling a lot

 - Buggy motor starting up

 - Buggy motor shutting down

 - Buggy hitting into something, bent metal

 - Beeps to start and end an incoming NASA communication

 - Mic clicks from talking to other astronauts

 - Zzzt sounds of broken mining robot

 - Subtle gear sounds of working mining bot

 - Mining sounds (1.5s each):

   -- drilling large metal (a few different ones would be good)

   -- drilling crumbling rock

   -- drilling wet muddy rock

   -- drill breaking

   -- Rock completely breaking

   -- Loud deep rhytmic (10s repeating) of a mining "driller" machine digging into the dirt

 - Entering the moonbase

 - "ahhhh" of doctor healing your wounds

 - Bubbling sound of spilled waste material