Aethus E01

Описание: Our journey starts with a narrow escape from the corporate grind of the Astral Resource Corporation. After an unstable extraction protocol nearly brings an entire mine down on our heads, our protagonist Maeve, and her AI companion Roland, sink their life savings into an abandoned mining claim left behind by her Grandad.

The surface is a barren, scrap-filled desert. It is a humble and quiet beginning, but there is a distinct satisfaction in setting up that first basic habitat and slowly building up our automation systems. Discovering an abandoned RTG (nuclear battery) allows us to power up a proper outpost and begin our real work.

As we push into the underground caverns, the environment turns hostile... The air grows toxic, forcing us to rely on static oxygen domes and suit upgrades just to survive the descent. Reconnecting to the ARC network via a trade node brings our overly enthusiastic former rep Trudy back into our lives, but it is a necessary evil to access the blueprints we need.

The deeper we go, the stranger the mystery becomes. Inside a massive meteorite crater we uncover Facility Delta, a surprisingly intact installation holding the grim remains of previous explorers. By crafting an EMP charge, we bypass a heavy blast door and ride the "Climber" elevator miles into the planet's crust to Facility Epsilon. Here we make contact with a fragmented, eccentric AI named Stanley, discover an impossible underground rainforest, and start piecing together the truth behind Grandad's elusive "Kappa" tech.

CHAPTER LIST:
0:00 Prologue
8:15 The Adventure Begins
16:56 Building Our First Mini-Base
30:16 Entering the Underground
32:47 Constructing the Habitat
41:01 Blasting Through the Rockfall
46:05 The Oxygen Dome
51:35 Moving and Expanding the Habitat
55:34 Reconnecting at the Trade Node
1:03:05 Buying the Air Tank Upgrade
1:08:06 Upgrading Suit Oxygen Filters
1:12:05 Activating a Mining Drill Site
1:13:25 Exploring Facility Delta
1:18:37 A Grim Discovery & The Access Card
1:21:59 Planning the EMP Charge
1:23:30 The Blood Waterfall Passage
1:25:09 Forging My First Meteorite Bar
1:26:53 Fixing the Blocked Door Servos
1:29:40 Drill Site V Supervisor Log
1:34:33 Finally Crafting the EMP Charge
1:36:38 An Unknown Carrier Wave (Stanley)
1:38:42 Taking the Climber to Facility Epsilon
1:41:58 Resetting the Epsilon Warehouse Generator
1:48:48 Discovering the Rainforest Biome
1:51:10 The Kappa Discovery (Grandad's Legacy)
1:54:30 Facility Kappa and the Underground Dam
1:59:27 Improving the Suit Oxygen Filter (Mk.2)
2:02:26 Slicing the Epsilon Computer with a USB Mole
2:11:02 Utilizing Epsilon Facility Storage
2:12:51 Crossing the Dam (And Suffocating)