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Anchorage Point is yet another scion of interstellar exploration, an outpost managed under the Seegson conglomerate some light years behind the borders of chartered space. Once a penal station, Anchorage Point has since been reactivated and later relegated to mediocrity under the personnel assigned by Seegson to keep the lights running. Passing starfreighters and other weary travelers occasionally stop over to refuel and run maintenance diagnostics before continuing on their merry way, but the place is otherwise a ghost town. Messages to corporate take a week to get out and another week or so before anything comes back, assuming the comms buoy is working of which half the time it isn't. Supply drop-offs come to match the financial year's milestones and something's always in need of repairs, of which the spares aren't due for another six months.
In space, no one can hear you scream, but here?
Nobody gives a shit.
Yes, I'm jumping on the bandwagon of revisiting a setting we've done before - how else to celebrate the last decade of TnB? I'm here to propose an RR that takes us to the retro-70s/80s aesthetic of the Alien series, with perhaps a little added extra to boot.
Duration: 1-2 days, a weekend at most.
Content: tbd (https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=514192579 as a placeholder)
I'm gunning for Seegson for the backdrop just because Weyland-Yutani are always the goto and there's something more appropriate about the half-assed, second rate budget approach that Seegson was shown to take in Alien Isolation for an RR like this. We wouldn't have a platoon of well-armed marines, just a corporate security contingent that's armed with low-caliber pistols and so to keep the isolated crew from eating each other alive. Character options are fairly open here - doctors, engineers, ex-cons and prison officers that chose to stay on with Seegson etc.
Personally, I like gm_boreas as a map because it's very compartmentalised and labyrinthine, but we all know that one's been fairly done to death - gm_vyten is an equally isolated map but it's a bit barebones. Jury's out on whether we go for a space-station or a terrestrial setting, it depends on the maps and the consensus of people who'd want to see this come to life.
I am confident with the work that
Imp
has made to polishing and improving eternity that we are in a situation where we'd be better off using it rather than the ZRP instance of CC that The Thing and previous RRs ran off. Bonus points if we can use gterminals again.
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