Under The Dark Star

The Story So Far:

In the far flung future of 2001...


Humanity has left its solar system of birth many years ago, having invented the power of interstellar flight in the early 1990s.


Mankind quickly expanded throughout the stars and their cravings for exploration and knowledge sent them to every corner of the universe.


A lowly janitor finds themselves as the only person on their barge that wakes up from the cryo-sleep. Numerous computer errors brought on by the Y2K bug) have sent the ship way off course. According to the instruments the barge is now in orbit around a planet.


A planet...

UNDER THE DARK STAR

The only hope to leave this planet and get back on track, and to survival, is to go down to the planet and find fuel rods for your barge. There are not signs of life on the planet, but it is very dark on the surface. The exploratory excavator tank has limited fuel and battery power, but it is finding a source of power for the barge is the only chance...