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Synopsis

The game follows a trio of space marines who fought in an interstellar war: Casey (the player character), Ari (Tia Carrere), and Zack (Christian Bocher). The game opens and the story begins, just as Casey was brought back to life by his partners. After being in a horrific space accident, Casey's body has been damaged beyond repair and he is now nothing more than a brain transplanted into a life support system on their spaceship. The player can interact with the world through a small remote-controlled flying probe, launched from the ship shortly after the start of the game. In this new form, Casey possesses a limited ability to interact with his environment, his only means of communicating being via a yes/no interface and by emitting pulses of light. Upon awakening, Casey discovers that the war is over and that Ari and Zack have become pirates aboard their ship, the Artemis, stealing the war's supplies to survive. During a rescue mission, the trio crash-lands and become stranded on an abandoned alien spaceship, which is on a collision course with the star. It's up to Casey to help his partners and explore the mystery of the Daedalus spaceship. In order to save themselves, the trio must explore the massive alien ship and solve a large number of mental puzzles, such as connecting colored laser beams with mirrors, unlocking a door with rotating shapes, playing an advanced form of connect the dots with a computer interface and battle sequence, fighting aliens called Krin. The puzzles are mixed with acting sequences from Carrere and Bocher, whose interaction with the player creates light comedy. Many alternate scenes and clips were filmed and edited in-game. The alternate scenes appear based on the player's game choice. While exploring the alien ship, Ari and Zack enter a Central Hub containing six hexagon-shaped doors. They explore the areas of the ship behind each door but find no navigation controls. However, Casey finds six purple orbs (one in each of the six areas behind the six doors). The orbs cause the beam of blue light and the fountain of white lights in the middle of the central hub to disappear as a device shaped like a diving suit with a cannon on top appears. Ari and Zack insert the orbs into it, Casey brings part of an alien's hand from the ship's infirmary (which is behind one of the doors to the central hub) and places it on the device. He activates an elevator that takes Ari, Zack, and Casey up and out of the Central Hub. The alien ship approaches the Sun and the temperature inside begins to rise rapidly. Outside, the remaining Krin flee the ship, but some of them are destroyed by the heat. The elevator brings Ari, Zack and Casey to a control room where the device (in which the orbs were inserted) disappears, revealing a fish-shaped shell. Ari and Zack notice a living alien and Casey goes to communicate with it. It should be noted that three endings were filmed:

The alien ship reaches the Sun and the Artemis burns and explodes in the heat. The alien does not respond to Casey and Zack shoots him with his laser gun. The alien pushes Zack away and attacks Ari. Ari kills the alien and the shell hatches into the alien queen. Ari kills him and Casey changes the ship's course, taking it away from the Sun. Ari assumes Zack is dead and cries over his body, telling Casey he was wrong about it not being a hopeless situation. The alien responds to Casey and as the alien ship reaches the star, a force field appears around the Artemis and protects it from the intense heat. The fish-shaped shell turns out to be an egg that hatches into a giant red alien queen. The living alien, Ari, Zack and Casey bow to him. In a voiceover, Ari explains that the force field created by the creatures who called themselves "Seddy" protected them and the ship from the intense heat. The Krin fled or were destroyed and the new queen possessed "race memory" and was able to speak and know; she helped Casey improve his translation skills, answered many of Ari and Zack's questions, and repaired the Artemis. Zack receives a transmission from Daedalus, wishing them a safe journey and that their paths cross again. Zack tells Casey that he was right about there being "no hopeless situation" and tries to convince Ari to join him on the mattress in the station room. Ari says nothing and Zack mutters, "Or not," as the Artemis hurtles into space.

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