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Synopsis

Players of the original game are never told the hero's name, but are instead prompted to enter their own. The default name of "Roger Wilco" – a reference to the radio communication "Roger, Will Comply" – became the hero's de facto name in later games in the series.

Roger's name was appropriate in the sense that, in keeping with his portrayal as an "everyman" schlub, he derived his name from an incorrect use of radio. When someone says "Wilco" or "will comply", "Roger" (or "received") is assumed. There is no need to say "Roger, Wilco", and this is seen in aviation circles as the mark of an amateur.

Roger is a member of the cleanup team aboard the science spaceship Arcada, which contains a powerful experimental device called the "Star Generator" (a thinly veiled reference to the Genesis Device from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan). Roger emerges from a duty nap in a broom closet to discover that the ship has been boarded and seized by the sinister Sarians. Using a keycard he found on the body of a dead crew member, he finds his way to an escape pod and escapes from the Arcada.

After a crash landing, he finds himself in the barren and barren desert of the planet Kerona. After traveling through the desert and an underground cave system, he is tasked by an insectoid alien with killing a monstrous creature called Orat. After successfully completing this task, he returns to the alien with proof of his success in the form of a piece of Orat's flesh. As a reward, the alien lets him into an underground complex inhabited by more aliens and provides Roger with a skimmer, a small flying vehicle that cruises a few meters above the sandy ground (similar to landspeeders from Star Wars).

The alien tells Roger that there is a town he could go to in order to find a way to leave the planet. After traveling through a rocky part of the planet, Roger reaches the town of Ulence Flats and goes to the local bar. While playing a video slot machine, Roger wins enough money to buy a spaceship and a navigation droid.

He overhears from a bar patron the location of the Sarians' spaceship, the Deltaur, and flies to its coordinates. He then infiltrates the ship, but not limited to, using his jetpack, dodging a droid, climbing inside an air vent, locking himself in a trunk, putting himself in a washing machine, disguising himself as Sarien by wearing one of Sarien's uniforms, and other creative and tactful methods. He then finds his way to the star generator and programs it to self-destruct, escaping the ship just before it explodes.

At the end of the game, Roger's efforts are rewarded when he receives the Golden Mop as a token of eternal gratitude from the people of Xenon.

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