The Orion Conspiracy Walkthrough

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KOBAYASHI SECURITY REPORT

DATE:
16TH OCTOBER 2160 05:34
OFFICER: RICHARDS (KPI#2144)
SUBJECT: COMPUTER
VOICE DIARY RECORD OF DEVLIN MCCORMICK (KEN#32211498)
SECURITY LEVEL: RED
2
REMARKS: DIARY SEEMS TO SUPPORT INTERROGATION FINDINGS OF CERBERUS DISASTER

After
my son’s funeral, I was about to relax in my plush quarters when I discovered
a note had been slipped under my door. This note confirmed my nagging suspicion
that my son had indeed been murdered. I had to bring his killers to justice.

The
shuttle to Kushiro had to be delayed in order for me to solve this crime. I tried
to get to the Shuttle, but I did not have access to the Docking Bay. I had to
get the necessary pass from Brooks the Shuttle Pilot. I knew she hung out in the
main corridor of B2. When I found her and we started to talk, I was amazed at
her gusto … what a character! I knew that if I could keep her talking, I might
be able to goad this tomboy into a basketball match in the B1 gym. I was right,
she wanted to show me up (and she probably would have), but I had other plans.

While
she waited in the gym, I pretended to go to my locker in the weight room. Brooks
was tough as nails, but she was not too bright when it came to security. I found
her locker open and inside were the items I needed: the D level elevator pass
and her ID card. I carefully replaced the jacket and then ditched Brooks.

I
went to the B2 level and quickly took the east corridor to the end of the level.
At the D elevator I used the access card, and was on my way to the Docking Bay
on D3. I climbed into the Shuttle and found the Navigation Computer. From my training,
I knew that if I inserted her ID card into the computer I would be able to erase
the memory banks. After this simple task was done, she came in and scared the
heck out of me. I conned her with my charm, and she then angrily confirmed that
the memory banks were erased. I had bought myself a week.

Now to work, I
had to talk to my son’s supervisor, Ruth Bernard. As the Chief Kobayashi Scientist,
she may have some additional details about his death. I found her in the Kobayashi
lab on D2. I was able to question her at length. She double checked a hunch of
mine and found that Danny’s probe had produced a three megawatt flare of energy
at the time of his death. Bernard could not tell me what could have produced this
lethal surge. It seemed that cooperation is hard to come by on this damn station.

I
took a chance and asked Meyer. Meyer was the station’s repairman, a decorated
war vet, and a mean SOB. I managed to locate him in the Generator Room on the
east end of B2. Meyer had all the charm of Denubiam speckled rat. With persistence,
I squeezed out of him that this three watt flare of energy was produced by a Concussion
Charge. I also snatched a nearby fire extinguisher in case of an unforeseen emergency.

The
station personnel would not tell me if Cerberus even had Concussion Charges. It
looked like I was at a dead end. Just then I remembered Bernard’s associate, Rowland;
he was a gossiper who always seemed eager to talk. I found him in the B2 lab.
I was right, Rowland did know about the charges, but he wanted a bribe. I assumed
he wanted cash, but a delicious Chandra Blueberry pie was his price.

I
tracked down Chandra in his kitchen on B4. Chandra was a great, but conceited,
cook. I saw the pie in the kitchen larder, but he blocked my attempts to get it.
As we talked about his cooking, I knew that if I challenged him to a cooking duel,
I could distract him and grab the pie. He took my bait, but I knew that I could
not even boil an egg, so I had to make him look foolish. I remembered that Ward
had mentioned that in the Catacombs off the D4 storeroom were rats. What
a way spoil a dish!

I went to these creepy Catacombs and found a rathole.
Man, those rats were so fast that I could not catch them. However, they seemed
to hate the light. I grabbed the Lantern in the next Catacomb and waited for a
rat to leave the rathole. Then I put the Lamp in front of the hole. I had blocked
the rat, but he was still too quick to catch. I finally had to freeze him with
a blast from the extinguisher. I had made a rat popsicle. With this rat, I sneaked
into the Canteen and put it in Chandra’s dish on the table. Then I went into the
kitchen and had him take a look at his prized dish. The look on his face was worth
a month’s pay! While he pondered on his culinary disaster, I sneaked into the
Larder and grabbed the pie.

Rowland was lounging (as usual) in his quarters
on B3 when I presented his pie. He finally gave up his secret, Raman the Kobayashi
scientist, was working with Concussion Charges. So I paid a visit to the shy Raman,
and when I confronted her with this information, she told me that indeed Kobayashi
was working with these charges. To fool spies, the charges were listed as Gauge
3 wrenches on the stocklist. Armed with this information, I needed to see if a
Concussion Charge had been stolen to sabotage the Probe.

I had to check
the station inventories. When I asked LaPaz for the latest Stock Inventory, she
hesitantly gave me the list. I went down to the D4 Storeroom and got that Stocklist
and compared the lists. My review showed that a Charge had indeed been removed
during a four hour period. Again, I grilled LaPaz about who had access to charges
in the Armory. Ward and Capt. Shannon were the only two with this access.

My
next step was to find out more about my chummy station mates. The ever vigilant
Dr. Chu would not let me near the Medical Computer, so I had to get her out of
the Operating Room. I knew the hypochondriac Rowland could be my bait. I found
him resting in his quarters. I told him that he looked really sick. Naturally
he agreed, and paged the good Dr. Chu to rescue him. I quickly ran up to the operating
room and checked the medical computer. What a gold mine! To my chagrin, my main
suspect Ward could not have stolen the charge, he was in the middle of surgery.
Now events were getting confusing. Surprisingly, LaPaz had her own dirty secret;
she was pregnant. Now I had her!

When I next talked to her, I let slip that
I knew her secret. To save her image, she gave me a Cupboard Key to gain access
to Danny’s things. I went to his room on B3. I fought back the tears as I opened
his Cupboard with the key. I searched his effects and found a stack of love letters.
I also pocketed a paper clip for future use. The love letters contained a photo
of the sender. It was … Steve Kaufmann! My son was gay. I was so distant from
him that I did not even have a clue. Then Kaufmann burst in and confronted me.
His angry shouts over the mistaken notion that I disapproved of their relationship
were heard by others in the hall. I decided I needed rest to gain the strength
to finish this maddening mystery. LaPaz interrupted my rest and ordered me to
Kaufmann’s room.

In the room laid Kaufmann, torn up and disemboweled, with
Ward and Captain Shannon talking over his corpse. Their misguided anger and accusation
focused on me. I was accused of the murder. My pleas of innocence were ignored,
and then that brute Ward locked me in the Observation Pod (Cerberus’s makeshift
brig).

I had to escape this damn Pod. So I used some McCormick ingenuity
and dismantled a nearby telescope. I was left with a lens and a metal tube. I
used the lens to unscrew the air grill. I then placed the metal tube in the air
vent and used Ward’s gross biscuit ration to plug up the hole. Just like the safety
manual predicted, the computer overrode the security lock and opened the Pod door.
I was ready to restart my investigation. Upon leaving, I was surprised by Allison
Gates. She was another Kobayashi scientist, but she revealed that she was their
undercover spy against Mogami-Hudson.

Also, Gates was the anonymous note
sender. We became unlikely allies in the search to find out Cerberus’s deadly
secret. After we parted, I had to be stealthy to avoid LaPaz, Ward, and Captain
Shannon; only they knew of my forced confinement. I went to the Garden on B2.
In the shed there I found some handy Wirecutters. On a hunch, I looked in the
Transport Pod (in the west side of B2) and was amazed to find strange cocoons.
I called Gates to the Pod, and we investigated the cocoons. Dr. Chu surprised
us in the Pod.

What a shock we had when she revealed herself as an alien
metamorph. She was intent on killing the Cerberus crew and replacing them with
her fellow aliens. Gates tried to fight her, but was ripped in two by the powerful
alien. I barely escaped the alien by going into the Generator room. I improvised
a desperate plan. I went to the Control Panel and turned off the power. I used
the Wirecutters to cut the power cable and then I restored power. Next, I went
out and lured the alien over this exposed live wire. When it walked on the wire
it should have died, but the Metamorph was too damn strong! It was only stunned.
I reached for a nearby wrench, and in desperation, used the wrench to break the
tap on one of the fuel tanks. The fuel sprayed on the creature and exploded when
it hit the live wire. Good-bye Dr. Chu!

I met up with Meyer who reported
that the resulting damage was critical. It meant Cerberus would lose its orbital
position and fall into the Black Hole. I ran away in disgust, knowing my actions
would kill the crew. In the corridor, I found that nosy Rowland had overheard
our conversation. Like a coward, he ran off into the Transport Pod to escape.
Unknowingly, his actions meant that aliens would be given access to human society.
Regretfully, he and the Pod had to be destroyed to save mankind! I knew that the
laser cannon in the Armory could do the job. However, I needed to short the C
elevator to gain access the Armory. A stroke of genius gave me the answer to solve
this dilemma. I had to race up to B1 and go to bar, where Chandra kept a crowbar.
Then across the way to the gym for the chest expander, and finally to the Catacombs
for a hammer. With these tools, I had a chance to succeed. I went to the C elevator,
located off the B2 Control Room. To short the elevator, I had to pry open the
Elevator Control Panel with the crowbar. The chest expander kept the panel open
so that I could use the telescope lens to locate the correct circuit to short.

I
was able to straighten the paper clip with the hammer, and use the straightened
clip to short the controls. I used the elevator to get to the Armory on C2. There
I used the laser cannon to destroy the Transport Pod. Sorry Rowland. …

Captain
Shannon caught me destroying the Pod. He surprised the hell out of me by smugly
confessing that he murdered my son, and later killed Kaufmann to frame me. He
wanted revenge for the death of his wife. It was obvious he was mad with hate.
I prepared myself to meet my son, when Meyer saved my butt. He jumped Shannon,
they wrestled, and he killed the bastard with his own gun!

I told Meyer
the confrontation with the alien had resulted in the engine damage. He said that
we could still save the station, but I had to go outside for the repairs. I knew
that to fix this mess, I had to risk permanent disability. I was determined to
succeed and redeem my honor. The necessary tool, the Zero-G wrench, was found
in the Shuttle’s tool locker. I grabbed it and was on my way, when I was accosted
by LaPaz. In desperation she explained that Ward had gone nuts and had killed
three Mogami-Hudson employees he thought were aliens. Together we went to the
living quarters where Ward was cornered by Brooks and Raman. Ward was crazed,
and reported that even Weatherman was an alien. I tried to reason with him, but
Brooks unexpectedly jumped him. In the struggle a grenade was detonated, killing
them. As a consequence of the explosion, poor Raman was trapped by a falling girder.
The explosion had also caused the corridor to start decompressing. To save the
station, I had to seal the corridor. When Chandra came to Raman, his love for
her was so great that he elected to die at her side. Again my cruel fate had forced
me to sacrifice innocent lives. LaPaz dragged Brooks out of the corridor, while
I went to the Storeroom and retrieved the Laser Welder. I returned to seal the
bulkhead doors and complete this gruesome task.

The engines were close to
failure, so I ran to the Docking Bay and teamed with Meyer to use the remaining
Scout craft to get the needed spare part to fix the engines. The part was from
the my son’s damaged Probe in space. I succeeded but blacked out to the stress
on my body. When I awoke, I returned to find those bastards from Mogami-Hudson
had taken over the station and had cut the air supply to the remaining Kobayashi
crew.

My only chance to stop them was to go outside and destroy their control
room with a Concussion Charge. I raced to the Armory Storage locker for the charge.
It was a pleasure to pay back that conniving scum. After completing this mission,
I had to know … why! I was able to locate a surviving (barely) Mogami-Hudson
scientist in their B2 lab. Her story did not surprise me. The aliens had lived
on the Asteroid interior and were helping Mogami-Hudson develop new technology,
but the aliens wanted too much control. They became defiant to Mogami-Hudson wishes.
She pointed to a fluid on the table which she said will kill the aliens. Mogami-Hudson
was never big on trust, and had developed the fluid to keep the aliens in check.
I was joined by LaPaz and Meyer. Now Meyer gave me even more bad news about our
chances; the shuttle’s NavCom chip was destroyed, thus crippling the ship. LaPaz
came forth with vital information that a backup chip was available. However, the
chip was in Brook’s brain. I volunteered to play brain surgeon.

While I
went to the Crew F corridor on B3, LaPaz went to the Control Center and Meyer
went to the Shuttle. After I completed my gruesome task with Brooks’s body, I
went to the Shuttle on D3 and found Meyer. I gave him the chip and went to get
LaPaz. I found her in the Control Center with Lowe. Together we went to find and
eliminate Waterman, the last threat. I had heard Ward say that he last saw Waterman
gnawing on poor Barry in the Garden. As we passed Barry’s corpse, I heard an unearthly
wail from the other end of the Garden. We found Waterman eating Barry’s intestines;
for him there was no hope–he had to be destroyed.

To effectively use the
fluid, Waterman would need to be detained. LaPaz and I went to the B1 gym and
there I used the wirecutters to remove the Volleyball net. Back at the Garden,
we draped the net over the second doorway on the cliff. LaPaz lured Waterman into
the net, and he was caught; I dumped on him the deadly liquid. The alien dissolved
into dust.

We met with Meyer at the Shuttle, only to find more shocking
news; Lowe was also an alien. Lowe was crafty, he was waiting till we left in
the Shuttle. Then he would blast us with the laser cannon. I had to rid mankind
of this menace for good. If Cerberus was destroyed, Lowe and this evil race would
be stopped. I eluded Lowe and went to the station Control Center and activated
the self-destruct mechanism. Quickly now to the Shuttle, but … damn! Lowe deactivated
the self-destruct mechanism. Now it was personal! I went to the Armory and grabbed
the last Concussion Charge, reactivated the self-destruct switch and then booby
trapped the self-destruct override switch. Lowe tried again to deactivate the
switch, but this time he got a nasty surprise.

Now there was no going back.
I sprinted to the repaired Shuttle. Together with Meyer and LaPaz, we escaped
this hellish death trap. As we watched Cerberus explode into space debris, I am
exhausted and heartbroken.

Our first alien contact was a disaster, 17 people,
including my beloved son, were dead … wait, what is that horrible grating sound
in the back of the Shuttle? Unbeliev////////////////////////

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