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Awesome. Our Roland, who had not been communicating at all, got the bright idea to go on an expedition on his lonesome for some reason. He's now lost on the planet,  but more importantly he took the shutltle wich is now stuck on the planet surface. No more expeditions for us!

Anyway I tried to get Roland, and preferably also the shuttle, back by landing one of the patrol ships on the planet, also by myself since it's a one seater. Disastrous result with me crashing on the surface and subsequently getting lost in the woods. Meanwhile I'm still trying to figure out why Roland, who now died due to depression, did it in the first place. Must be a desperate mush and or a complete idiot. 

Oh well suppose it is a lesson learned. I'm still curious though, was there any way for us to get the patrol ship back? If we were to get the tech so it can return unmanned, would it do so despite not being on the ship when the project completed? Had I not gotten lost and crashed the ship, would I have been able to find and return Roland and the shuttle?

It involved Raluca yes. I notified the crew she should be dead. I don't think they would have figured it out actually, I just pointed it out to stay legit. Didn't actually kill her though, convinced the rest of the crew it's not worth the bother, being inactive and all.

It's always the pilots isn't it. We had two active ones here, if only one who actually communicates. Had because we lost poor Terrance on an expedition.

Not that it'll matter much. If the hunters don't finish off the pitiful remainder of the hull, morale will likely soon kill us all. Well all except the mush.

Inactives are kind of a problem in this game aren't they. Especially sad to see the inactives identified as multi teamster. Everyone is just trying to get an active ship I guess, kind of a buzz kill.

Ah a fellow cynical soul! I can relate, albeit not with the whole cutting thing wich I've never done.

On your depressing world view, I won't try to convince you of another outlook. In fact I'd say you have the right idea of things. Socio economically speaking when one person profits, another suffers. Taking advantage of everything and everyone is business as usual, all soly for personal gain. The powerful feverishly cling to their power and seek assimilate more of it, seeking to control and own everything their power allows. It truly is a dog eat dog world.

However

Recently, I have found it difficult to believe that any goodness in anything, be it people or ideas, has any chance of existing, and that it is an inevitable course of action that the worst triumphs in the end: no struggle between a man and his circumstances can end with anything but more suffering than there was beforehand, and if said man becomes better off, than it is only because he has made others suffer in his stead.

I must disagree here. It is possible for a person, through their actions, to improve things for themself and/or others without taking advantage of another. It's just that it is more advantageous to cut corners and cause suffering for others. Not impossible, just not the most effective way to play the game.

About the self harm bit here's my advice. I'm not going to tell you to not feel guilty, even though you really shouldn't. Well at least not in the magnitude as you are. It's a big world, and all its troubles are not yours. That isn't to say they aren't partly yours, as a moral human being.
Anyway, just feeling guilty does not help in any way. Neither does harming yourself as you are. Not to say punishment is futile, just fruitless and in your case really not necesary. If you truly feel guilty for living a favorable life then act on it and work to improve conditions for those less favorable. I'm sure there's plenty of volunteer work you could do, even close to home. Be the change you think is needed and all that.
And even if you chose not to, at the very least stop punishing yourself. There is no point to it, no one will be thankful for the suffering you endure you deem you deserve. You do not deserve it, you did not chose your life or anyone elses, you can however chose on how to act on it.

Wait what does the spore sucker do exactly? Extract any spores currently on a character?

Don't suppose anyone is on the ship where Chao murdered Jin Su day 1? It's an awfully messy ship, many crew members who aren't communicating at all, especially players getting away not reporting being dirty at all. I bet the mush are having a field day on this one.

Solved the problem it seems, I just wasn't inserting the ram modules propperly. Been to long since I opened 'er up, I forgot you really need to insert those things tight.
Seems to be starting up now, see what it does.

Also looking back on my previous posts, damn so many typos. That's what you get when the hands can't keep up with the thougths I suppose.

Edit: Huzzah posting from desktop! Now to see if it still crashes.