ENDLESS™ Space 2 is turn-based 4X space-strategy that launches players into the space colonization age of different civilizations within the ENDLESS™ Universe. Your Vision. Their Future.
Quite a discovery i made in that little expedition.
I found trees. That sure sounds interesting doesn´t it? especially considering that my job was finding them, cutting them and bringing them back. Well, how about walking, talking, five-eyed trees. Is that exciting enough for you? Well not only i saw them, i talked to them. And even though the first normal reaction to seeing such visions would be to run for your life, i felt so calm near them, even more evidence of my new found madness.
Now here is the golden part; they call themselves The Unfallen. Funny, now that i think about it, after all my woodcutter profesion demanded i made them the opposite. It gets better; they are not from this planet and apparently i was to stay with them until they said otherwise.
Naturally, i agreed.
From me they learned the basic traits of my species, a damn poor choice i agree, but it must have been enough for a couple of days later they decided to visit the many nations of my land. Have you ever tried explaining new concepts and ideas to old people? If yes i´m sure you know how difficult it must be. How do you think it went with millenia old tree-folk.
Surprisingly to no one, i failed. Surprisingly to me. they didn´t get turned into firewood while making contact with even the most xenophobic of governments. And surprisingly to all, the ones who turned them into firewood were themselves. A supposed gesture of goodwill as their smoke will apparently cleanse our polluted air. Nothing like a bit of self-immolation to get a good relation started.
Immediately afterwards began the blunders; trying to convince a mechanical saw of the importance of nature, preaching non violence to the ravenous man-eater plants of the jungles in the south, the baffling comments to politicians of the usefulness of sporelings and seeds in mind manipulation, and how to forget when a dust intoxicated sapling personally met and humiliated the very best minds before disappearing on an unidentified ship. Its last statement: "Beating these eggheads in their own game is the most fun i´ve ever had, i´ll do the same for every other civilization".
It was clear that this was their first time meeting other species, and their objective of subjugating us through diplomatic means failed spectacularly. It was easy to see why, pacifism by nature and near immortality may sound nice to hippies, (they specially loved the fact they were trees) but it leads to a mind boggling narrow mindedness and incapacity to adapt to other cultures.
Still, they are no pushovers and should they do away with their natural sluggishness and rigidness, there would be no one who could deny anything to them.
Why am i using this horribly primitive (500 maximum words, are you insane?) medium of communication to say this?
And why am i saying this to you?
I was never told to go home. And we are coming for you.
To make some clarifications. The quest would be narrated by the guy who is narrating this tale, he is not unfallen, he is just some abducted nobody from some civilization the Unfallen visited. I imagined him a bit like Arthur Dent from "Hitchhickers Guide to the Galaxy" but not completely clueless. In theory he is supposed to be funny, i´m sure the writers at amplitude can make him be funny in case he doesn´t appear to be here and in case this wins the contest. The meat of the quest would be the struggle of the Unfallen to understand the diferent ways of the galaxy, i think this can be implemnted by the political system quite nicelly and completing objectives would give you influence with the faction associated with that ideology. Since they are also ridiculously old this should also pose a significant challenge. And on the topic of the hero, he should also be some sort of a goofy guy, he is relatively young as he is a sapling. I wasn´t satisfied with the lackluster introduction to him but i had to make some cuts to fit everything in 500 words. So yeah thanks for reading my story and if i made some grammar mistake please correct me, i´m not a native english speaker
In theory it would be the sapling that ran away in the unidentified spaceship. The introduction is a little bit cheap but i think it could have an interesting story with other scientist heroes or with the sophons. 500 words is very rough.
Its good that you included humour in your submission, something that is a part of Endless series; obviously very blatant in Endless Dungeon of course. It can be serious but there is quite a bit of light-hardheartedness in the game, amusing dialogue, quests, names and so on.
I also imagine that the dusty-sapling that shows up during the "negotiations" to be like a crazy Diplomatic/Pacifist version of a Sophon.
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