Ultronomicon:Game events

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The purpose of this article is to clarify which events are mandatory and which are optional. Some articles in Ultronomicon assume the best-case scenario with the player completing all quests and events in the best way, but there is some discussion that this is not the ideal way to cover the events of Star Control II.

You can document mandatory events without restriction, but try and point out that optional events might not happen. There are a few ways you can do this:

• Create a new heading titled "Optional events". Document all the mandatory events before this section and all the optional events in this section.
• Use a cause-and-effect structure of sentencing to clarify that certain events only occur if the protagonist completes a certain game event. In a completely fictional example:

  "Mars is the home of ultra-powerful psionic beings.

  If The Captain meets these beings, they dominate the crew of The Flagship and invade the other races. The entire galaxy falls under the dominion of the Great Martian Empire."

This page is still very much a work in progress. Please feel free to add or modify what you see here. If you disagree with any of the following points, please add "(disputed, see talk)" and bring it up in the talk page.

Mandatory events

These events will occur if the player successfully completes the game. Each child event represents events that must occur in order for the parent event to occur. Historical events are all considered mandatory, as are any of the events mentioned at the end of the game (except for the "blooper reel", of course).

SPOILER BELOW

Needed to finish the game

Destroy the Sa-Matra

• Do away with the Sa-Matra's guards
  • Obtain the Talking Pet (device)
    1. Obtain the Taalo Shield
       • Meet the Orz at Delta Vulpeculae IIc
    2. Meet the Umgah when under control of the Talking Pet
       • Learn of the Talking Pet from the Arilou
• Install the amplified Utwig Bomb onto The Flagship
  • Meet and ally with the Chmmr
    • Remove the Ilwrath from Procyon
      • Convince the Ilwrath to attack the Thraddash
        • Obtain a HyperWave Broadcaster (Burvixese Hyperwave Broadcaster or Umgah Hyperwave Broadcaster)
    • Speed up the Chmmr synthesis
      • Obtain the Sun Device
        • Remove most of the Mycon from Beta Brahe
          1. Meet and ally with the Syreen
             • Obtain the Deep Child Egg Case Fragments
             • Discover that the Mycon destroyed Syra
          2. Recover the Syreen fleet
          3. Convince the Mycon to go to Organon
  • Obtain the Utwig Bomb
    • Fight against five Druuge Maulers at Zeta Hyades VI-B.
      • Fix the Ultron (the Supox and the Utwig declare war on the Ur-Quan Kohr-Ah as a result of this)
        • Obtain the broken Ultron
          • Meet the Supox
        • Obtain the Rosy Sphere
          • Meet and trade with the Druuge
        • Obtain the Aqua Helix
          • Meet with the Thraddash
        • Obtain the Clear Spindle
          • Meet with the Pkunk

Assumed as mandatory

These events are assumed, generally because the game would be nearly impossible to complete without them¹, or simply because it "makes sense" in the game. Each child event represents events that must occur in order for the parent event to occur.

• Meet the Ur-Quan drone¹
• Convince Commander Hayes to ally with The Captain¹
  • Supply the Earth Starbase with radioactives
    • Visit Io or Mercury
  • Explore Luna and salvage the Moon Base
  • Defeat a half-crippled Ilwrath Avenger
• The Captain meets Fwiffo, who joins his fleet and survives until the end of the game.¹
• Slylandro Probes run rampant throughout the galaxy (Note: Meeting the Slylandro is not considered mandatory)
• Meet the Zoq-Fot-Pik
  • Get the info about location of Syreen fleet from Zoq-Fot-Pik
• The Ur-Quan Kohr-Ah don't end up cleansing any other races, although they are winning the Second Doctrinal Conflict.

Mandatory Alliance membership

The following races will be part of the New Alliance of Free Stars if the player successfully completes the game.

• Chmmr
• Human
• Supox
• Syreen
• Utwig

Optional events (explicit)

While anything not mentioned above should be considered optional, the following list contains events that are explicitly optional. The main purpose of this list is to clarify events that might be considered mandatory, but are actually optional.

SPOILER BELOW

• The Ilwrath and the Thraddash do not necessarily wipe each other out.
  • It can be assumed that The Captain destroys the Sa-Matra before the Ilwrath and Thraddash wipe each other out.
  • Since the remaining Chmmr and allied fleets manage to defeat the remaining Dreadnought and Marauder fleets, it can also be assumed that they can defeat or control the remaining battle thralls as well—including the Ilwrath and the Thraddash.
  • It is possible to goad Fwiffo into fighting by selecting "You attacked our lander -- killed our crew! Prepare to die.", an option immediately available when The Captain first talks to Fwiffo.
• The Captain doesn't necessarily meet with the Slylandro to stop their Probes
  • This probably doesn't require much of an explanation. Beyond their friendship and some interesting background information (especially about their glowy bits), the Slylandro gasbags provide nothing towards the final goal of destroying the Sa-Matra.
• Allying with the Zoq-Fot-Pik and subsequently saving them.
• Acquiring a Portal Spawner
  1. Recover the Ur-Quan Warp Pod from Alpha Pavonis VII
  2. Give the Ur-Quan Warp Pod to the Arilou

Optional Alliance membership

The following races will only be a part of the New Alliance of Free Stars through player actions. Any races not mentioned here or in the mandatory Alliance section above will not join the Alliance regardless of player actions. Where mentioned, parent actions only occur if the child actions also occur.

Official members of the Alliance who send ship designs and starship captains to the Earth Starbase

• Orz
• Pkunk
  • if The Captain incites the Yehat Rebellion
  • after the conclusion of the Yehat Rebellion
• Shofixti
  • if The Captain restores the Shofixti race
• Spathi
  • if The Captain eliminates the Evil Ones from Spathiwa
• Thraddash
  • if The Captain defeats at least 25 Torches in combat.
• Yehat
  • if The Captain incites the Yehat Rebellion
  • after the conclusion of the Yehat Rebellion
• Zoq-Fot-Pik

These races provide assistance, but are never official members of the Alliance (but only through player actions)

• Arilou Lalee'lay
• Melnorme
• Pkunk
  • before the conclusion of the Yehat Rebellion
• Yehat Rebels
  • if The Captain incites the Yehat Rebellion
  • before the conclusion of the Yehat Rebellion

Notes and references

¹From the 2007 IRC chat with Toys for Bob (robot is Fred Ford, PR3 is Paul Reiche III):

23:09 <@fOSSiL> So we should refrain from asking too much about the potentially upcoming SC game? (not to devulge too much about the plot, etc.) ;)

23:12 <+PR3> I'd rather not say too much about the plot, except that Fwiffo's general paranoia, greed and lust for fame triggers the initial 'bad event' getting the player moving.