Board Thread:What Would You Do?/@comment-28929693-20170922014806

(Basic Pre-Story Information)

You are aboard a star-cruiser heading towards the Galatica-X9 Galaxy to deliver some cargo to a trading post in the X5-ZETA7 System. The trip is long, boring, and soul-crushingly uneventful. The only solace you have are your friends, of which have worked with you for many trips. They consist of 2 humans (Terry and Bobby) and 3 Mamono (Lia, Jess, and Kendra. A Lamia, Slime, and Automaton).

You wake up with a jolt to the sound of everyone's alarm-clocks simultaneously going off. You quickly slam down the snooze button on yours, almost breaking the button in the process. Your attempt at longer sleep was proven futile, as Kendra is quick to flip you out of bed. You fall onto the hard metal floor, and decide to finally get up.

After half-consciously taking a shower and brushing your teeth, you trudge your way to the mess hall and eat a "delicious" meal of flavored paste. In all honesty, it is quite tasty. After cleaning your plate, and having conversation with friends, your superior hands you a broom and tells you that Rodney spilled some Antimattierial Rust-Dust again. With a silent groan, you take the broom and prepare for many hours of agonizingly boring chores.

Several hours pass, and you have not seen your friends at all today. Normally by now, Lia would be coiled around you, Terry and Bobby would be hitting on Kendra, and Jess would be... Jess. But today, nothing... it was so silent you could hear a piece of cotton float down onto the smooth metal floor of the star-cruiser. Something was off.

Before you could compete the thought, you hear a loud explosion followed by alarms and distressed screaming of crew and passengers. A unnervingly calm voice speaks over the intercom, alerting everyone to evacuate to the launch pods. You drop your broom and Sprint towards the launching bay, only to see one pod left. You enter the pod, and almost close the door before you hear the calls of your friends. They cram themselves into the pod, and launch towards the nearest habitable planet.

Awakening from a deep blackness, you are greeted to a trashed launch pod interior. You must've hid the ground extremely hard for this amount of damage to occur. You walk out the door, and see your friends had already built a fire. The landscape of the planet looks surprisingly similar to earth, save for the oddly colored rock, ring in the sky, and strange animal life.

You have limited options in this scenario. You could try to use whatever IRC communication left in the pod to send a distress call, but that might alert slave traders... it would also only go off approximately 2 times before failure. You could also try to make the best of a bad situation, and build a primitive colony to survive. However, there are many dangers when building colonies... such as raids from native tribes, other colonies, and pirates. If you plant food, the seasons or a blight could wipe out food supply. A stray Gamma Ray Burst could sterilize the planet. Crashed pods containing environmentally lethal chemicals could render the planet uninhabitable. The planet could swing out of orbit and become a cold, lifeless rogue planet. There is a whole host of other misfortunes that could come with a colony. The choice is yours.

What Do You Do? 