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Just so you know, the whole snag mechanic, along with Shadow Pokemon, is from the Pokemon Colosseum series. The main way you obtained Pokemon in those games was stealing them. Fun times

Posting all of my watches.

Okay, downloading now. Let's see how this plays.

EDIT: Hmm, two hour download time. I guess my internet isn't feeling good today.

Haven't even watched the video all the way through yet but I really like it just based on the way the fighters are weaving around the capital ship fire.

EDIT: Having watched the whole video and looked at the screens I think this deserves way more recongintion than it has. At the very least the battle part seems nicely polished. I would like to know more about the non-combat bits though, most notably economy and ship design. Also rather sad about not being able to try it right now (middle of night on ipad)

You insert the disk into a slot handily located on the main console. One of the larger screens, the only one with a keyboard and mouse, lights up. On the screen is a list of scenarios, most notably "Ship Tutorial".

There isn't anyone else who you know personally that would know what's going on. There may be other people who know something, but it would be pretty hard to manually search through millions of people for someone who may or may not exist.

You retrive the case from the desk drawer you kept it in. Upon unsealing it, you remove the book. The cover reads, "The Many Functions of your C-Class Generation Ship". Maybe there was more than one built, if the manual is standardized. Looks like something for a car. The book is moderately thick, at least fifty or so pages. You better hope this isn't just a brochure or something.

Most paper objects rotted away long ago, however there is a hermetically sealed case containing something book-shaped that the previous captain had given you. It's in your quarters, but you may wish to do something else first.

The general populace has a deeply intertwined family tree, however there are enough people living that incest hasn't become a truly significant problem. Most people are able to find someone rather distantly related to marry, but marrying into closer family (cousins, for example) isn't considered taboo, as long as it's neccesary.

You are the [insert chosen title here] of the [chosen ship name]. Your predecessor's mission was to establish a colony in Proxima Centauri. Unfortunately the generation ship experienced a problem with the storage drives a few hundred years into the journey, and you and most of the others on the ship have only scattered knowledge of Earth, true orbital mechanics, and how the ship really works. For all you know, there may already be humans in the star system. Over the roughly 80,000 year journey, not much is known. You're certain the ship had communications with Earth, however something happened before the drive corruption and you don't have communications now.

About the Ship

The ship is constructed as a rotating ring with farms on the inside to provide food. It's easily a few miles in radius. You presume it was constructed in orbit, and signs indicate it was a last-ditch effort to relieve overcrowding. There are is easily enough space for hundreds of millions of people on the 25-mile long ring, even a billion. Now, however, the population is much smaller-only a few million.

Propulsion is provided by eight conventional liquid-fuel engines, and you presume the ship used most of the fuel to decelerate from interplanetary speed. (The ship ran on autopilot until now; the only notification of its arrival was a loud beep and a "Autopilot disengaged"). Power is provided by a low output fusion reactor.

There are a lot of buttons on the console, and since most of them had no use while on autopilot you have no idea what they do. There are other seats for bridge crew to sit on, but they are never used, seeing as the ship was flying itself. From what you can tell, the ship is unarmed.

You have no idea what to do first; the autopilot has just disengaged. What do you do first?

tl;dr: You got a starship but no clue as to how to work it