S7E5: No One Like Us
Summary
Arturo Ruiz Santiago, a cybernetically enhanced pilot, accepts a contract to investigate a missing mining crew on the tidally locked planet Frontier 179. Upon arriving at the derelict vessel, he discovers the crew has been assimilated by a grotesque, god-like entity worshipped by a cult known as the Harbingers of the Abyss. As he battles the mutated survivors and resists the entity’s invasive mental compulsion to "become one," he is aided by Alma, a mysterious consciousness residing in his head. The episode culminates in a desperate escape from the ship, where Arturo fights off the horde an…
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Prologue: The bartender and the void holes
Arrival at Frontier 179 and meeting BJ
Encounter with the cultist and Alma's introduction
Confrontation in the bar and backstory of the crash
Street fight and accepting the mining contract
Mission briefing and preparing C-Casador
Synchronization and launch into the dark
Atmospheric layers and the fungal forest
Ascent via space elevator and crew rumors
Approaching the moonlet and sensing the anomaly
Psychic resistance and combat preparation
Engaging the possessed mining engines
Boarding the ship and the shadow figure
Flashbacks to surgical enhancements and contracts
Exploring the ship and the cult's whispers
Combat with mutated crew and the eye creature
Entering the Commons and the cult video
The cult's theology and the cargo bay threat
Confronting the doctor and the goliath
Mass battle in the Commons and C-Casador's aid
Cargo bay assault and the child's psychic probe
Defeating the amalgamation and purging the ship
Departure and the planet's response
Credits and Patreon promotion
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