![]() He has a tinny, monotone voice and a spacesuit with the classic wizard moon-and-stars pattern on it. He's played by Samuel Pinney on twitter), who is also hosting the server and acting as a mysterious gamesmaster for this whole experience. ![]() Oh, and soon after we picked our roles, we were transmitted the first image of our Robot Assistant, ODD, who we would meet when we landed on the site of our colony-to-be: This is ODD. Being a huge coward, Nate was the natural pick for Security Officer, while Matt radiates so much Science Officer energy he could hardly be anything else. We figured that given her seniority and hatred for making decisions under pressure, Alice B should be our Commander, while Alice L, as the team’s resident Video Bud, was a neat pick for Surveyor. Meet the team *'Out of Space' by The Prodigy begins to play extremely loudly* We might not have been engineers, and we knew bugger all about space, but we were confident we were going to be the best damned Space Engineers this side of the Oort cloud. But given how things unfolded, she probably dodged a bullet there.) (Note: Alice L came down with a bout of Moon Mumps right before we played, so she had to sit out this first session. Suffused with a relaxed air of “what could possibly go wrong?”, we packed our virtual bags, dished out the roles on offer, and then spent ages deciding on the colours of our spacesuits. The letter set out our mission, our time of departure, and even promised us our own robot guide. Here was the email that Nate, Matt, Alice B and Alice L received on Monday night, from the mysterious “Royal Planetary Services”. But humanity didn’t reach the moon via careful planning and risk assessment, did it? To hell with the odds: it was time to leap into the void. None of us had ever played it before, and all we knew about it was that it was reputed to be as complicated as it was unforgiving. Our mission was to colonise a distant world, using only our wits, our brawn, and the game Space Engineers. Earlier this week, four lucky inhabitants of the RPS Treehouse were selected to travel… to Space.
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