Teslaworld is a hostile moon, too hostile for even a spacesuited human to survive for long. Yet a human presence has been established, due to the moon's large mineral deposits and scattered alien artifacts.
The Tesla Planetary Salvage Consortium, a collection of various corporations, has created a state-of-the-art teleoperated drone facility on Teslaworld's surface. From the safety of isolation booths hundreds of lightyears away, qualified personnel can remotely control drones (interchangeably known as avatars or receptacles) and carry out complex exploration and salvage operations.
As always, starship pilots are the logical candidates to perform this high-tech endeavour. For a standard fee to cover maintenance costs for the equipment used, pilots can sign up at one of the branch offices to work on Teslaworld.
Once you have registered, the following steps will be necessary to complete the required tasks at each surface site on Teslaworld:
1) Type BOOTH. This will place you in one of the available isolation booths.
2) Type INTERFACE. If a Gopher drone is available, your signal will be routed toward it.
Note: Gopher drones are small robots used to transport equipment within the facility.
3) You will find yourself in direct control of a Gopher drone. You may want to explore the facility, if this is your first time inside it. Note the locations of the relayer staging area, the explorer staging area, and the equipment purchasing area.
4) When you're ready to continue, go to the equipment purchasing area and buy any combination of either salvaging equipment, or one item each of exploring equipment. Note that a relayer can carry six pieces of equipment, and an explorer can carry two.
** YOU NOW HAVE TWO CHOICES. The Tesla Planetary Salvage Consortium needs new potential sites explored, and it also needs explored sites salvaged.
SALVAGING:
1) Go to the relayer staging area. LOAD the relayer to place your equipment on it. You will probably want to RESERVE one of the relayers before loading it, or someone might steal your equipment.
Note: Relayer drones are large vehicles that move between the facility and salvage sites. Unlike most drones, they can handle multiple connections.
2) TRANSFER to the relayer. Up to three others can join you on the relayer; a larger party will make the job faster for all of you.
3) Enter TRAVEL to receive a new site and begin travelling to it.
4) You will soon arrive at the new site. Enter UNLOAD to unload the equipment and salvager drones. TRANSFER to one of the salvagers.
Note: Salvager drones are the only drones able to use equipment in the Teslaworld tunnels.
5) Pick up some equipment and enter the tunnels. In each section of the tunnel, you will want to USE your equipment, and it will scan for anything of interest. If it happens to find anything, you can move on while it works, and come back for it later.
6) When the tunnels are emptied or if you can carry no more, return all equipment to the relayer and LOAD it.
7) TRANSFER to the relayer again. Enter LOAD to reload the salvager drones.
8) TRAVEL back to the facility. You will automatically receive payment upon arrival.
9) If you wish to continue at another site, TRANSFER to a Gopher drone and purchase new equipment. Your relayer drone reservation is intact for the entire time you are connected to the facility. If no Gopher drones are in the area when you arrive, enter GOPHER to call an available one.
EXPLORING:
1) Go to the explorer staging area. LOAD the explorer to place your equipment on it. You also must RESERVE one of the exploring queues. Note that more than one person can reserve a queue. Travelling with friends will make the job go quicker.
Note: Explorer drones are large, strong vehicles designed to operate under heavy flux conditions. They possess limited self-repair capabilities.
2) TRANSFER to the explorer on which you loaded your equipment.
3) Enter TRAVEL to begin moving to the next site in your reserved queue.
4) When you arrive, you will find yourself on a surface site. The most important job here is to SUBDUE the various flux storms and electrical storms in the area. This is the purpose of the equipment you brought along. Enter HEALTH to check your avatar's status. If it reaches 100%, your avatar will be sent back to the facility.
5) When the site is clear of storms, or when you're ready to give up, enter TRAVEL to return to the Tesla facility.
At any time, you can END to close your connection and return to reality.
Also note that all costs and payments in the facility are in EAOS credits.
