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Mission 4 Notes THE MEDICINE MISSION -------------------- This mission is designed to be quite late on, there is no CAD involved and is as such, purely a text mission. Upon killing 4600 ships, being less than fugitive, being at a planet number MOD 3==1 you are given the mission request. The idea is that the Groigans carry a disease and you have to get the constituent parts of a cure together. The twist is that it has been split up and sent to several planets. You are not told where they all are at first and have to piece together a sort of search tree. This is supposed to be like the problem of the two jealous husbands? (Know it?) sideline [You have two very jealous husbands with their two wives, they have to get over to the other side of the river in a single row boat but neither husband will let his wife go with the other man...And so on] Well here, the problem is when Paredon (a very volatile substance) is stored in the hold with any other Zeenogenic compound (the others) then it becomes unstable, but not uncontrollable, if you can avoid conflict, more to the point, if you can avoid letting your shields become critical and jolting the ship, then you can store any you like. If you are shot to the point that you are only on energy banks then the compound MAY be considered to be jolted which starts a reaction in the hold. This reaction is signified by a message next to the compund in the hold (REACTING) and a message and siren saying 'THERMAL REACTION IN HOLD!' (as per Energy low). The cabin temperature increases and there is nothing you can do about it. You die! Now, the problem is this. As we do not know by this late stage which galaxy they may be in, we must assign this mission by planet number alone. The mission takes place at planets 170-174. This could be spread anywhere in the Galaxy, but what the hell else were they going to do with their time anyway? One of these planets is the dropping off point. Reward. Innoculation! and 2000CR.
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As we| 00000680 20 64 6f 20 6e 6f 74 20 6b 6e 6f 77 20 62 79 0a | do not know by.| 00000690 74 68 69 73 20 6c 61 74 65 20 73 74 61 67 65 20 |this late stage | 000006a0 77 68 69 63 68 20 67 61 6c 61 78 79 20 74 68 65 |which galaxy the| 000006b0 79 20 6d 61 79 20 62 65 20 69 6e 2c 20 77 65 0a |y may be in, we.| 000006c0 6d 75 73 74 20 61 73 73 69 67 6e 20 74 68 69 73 |must assign this| 000006d0 20 6d 69 73 73 69 6f 6e 20 62 79 20 70 6c 61 6e | mission by plan| 000006e0 65 74 20 6e 75 6d 62 65 72 20 61 6c 6f 6e 65 2e |et number alone.| 000006f0 0a 54 68 65 20 6d 69 73 73 69 6f 6e 20 74 61 6b |.The mission tak| 00000700 65 73 20 70 6c 61 63 65 20 61 74 20 70 6c 61 6e |es place at plan| 00000710 65 74 73 20 31 37 30 2d 31 37 34 2e 20 54 68 69 |ets 170-174. Thi| 00000720 73 0a 63 6f 75 6c 64 20 62 65 20 73 70 72 65 61 |s.could be sprea| 00000730 64 20 61 6e 79 77 68 65 72 65 20 69 6e 20 74 68 |d anywhere in th| 00000740 65 20 47 61 6c 61 78 79 2c 20 62 75 74 20 77 68 |e Galaxy, but wh| 00000750 61 74 0a 74 68 65 20 68 65 6c 6c 20 65 6c 73 65 |at.the hell else| 00000760 20 77 65 72 65 20 74 68 65 79 20 67 6f 69 6e 67 | were they going| 00000770 20 74 6f 20 64 6f 20 77 69 74 68 20 74 68 65 69 | to do with thei| 00000780 72 20 74 69 6d 65 0a 61 6e 79 77 61 79 3f 20 4f |r time.anyway? O| 00000790 6e 65 20 6f 66 20 74 68 65 73 65 20 70 6c 61 6e |ne of these plan| 000007a0 65 74 73 20 69 73 20 74 68 65 20 64 72 6f 70 70 |ets is the dropp| 000007b0 69 6e 67 20 6f 66 66 0a 70 6f 69 6e 74 2e 0a 0a |ing off.point...| 000007c0 52 65 77 61 72 64 2e 20 49 6e 6e 6f 63 75 6c 61 |Reward. Innocula| 000007d0 74 69 6f 6e 21 20 61 6e 64 20 32 30 30 30 43 52 |tion! and 2000CR| 000007e0 2e 0a |..| 000007e2
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