"We have lost the data from the second stage ... what we do believe right now is that the Automated Flight Termination System on the second stage appears to have triggered very late in the burn," John Insprucker, SpaceX principal integration engineer, said on the company's webcast.

At the center of many of these stories is the captain, the person most often made the protagonist or at the very least a person to look up to during the journey. TV has been the birth place of many of the most beloved captains in all of science fiction/fantasy, but among all the names, who stands above the rest?


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Introversion Software are, we can infer, at home in simulation games by now, what with their most famous game Prison Architect having a bajillion DLCs that, at this point, can add zombies, rehabilitation, or the jungle to your prison. Their new one is called The Last Starship, a layered spaceship simulator that's less friendly than their prison. I am not sure if it's because the early access is still largely without any tutorial markers, or because I am very bad at the game.

On paper, and sort of in practise, I like it. It's 2D, and has a lowfi feel, with detail in the default top down view but overlays for different things being pixely, or a bit wireframe. You can opt to build your own ship, or select from some presets varying in size and, therefore, difficulty. Everything on your ship needs power, hooked up to a reactor that becomes the beating heart, and is itself fed by a fuel pump. Pipes and wires form the veins underneath the surface, connecting your enginges, FTL drive, thrusters, and any anything else you might need - including, crucially, air vents that pump oxygen into each room, making the spaceship habitable for your little crew. All these must be fed with fuel cannisters, oxygen, FTL batteries for jumps. Your little crew need rations, too. You can buy everything from systems with ports in them, but they are costly.

That's The Last Starship, basically: building a bigger, better ship that's more self-sufficient but costs more and more to maintain. (There's also a gradually expanding black hole-ish anomaly swallowing everything up, but I was too focused on figuring out how to move and install things to pay much attention to it.) I don't believe this game is a story generator in the sense that all the crew have simulated personalities and needs; rather, the ship itself is the living thing. It is the story that you build and take with you and care for like a ficus plant, or a collicky baby. Often you will be orbiting a planet, and can zoom out to see how tiny your ship is next to it.

I don't think The Last Starship is bad, but I do want to restart it almost constantly, with every instance that I manage to scrabble up a new crumb, a new mote of understanding on how to, e.g. turn the fucking ship. I only just noticed my ship has a ladder, which implies a second floor. How do I see it? I do not know. I'm not sure if I can draw walls, but at this stage I don't even want to, because more rooms would require more air vents. My crew have all left their spacesuits where they took them off. Maybe I can designate an area for them to be stored?

I don't know. And the thing is, I don't feel a drive to find out. I feel tired. Every time I fuck something up in The Last Starship, and am called upon to pick myself up and try again, I just think "why?". Currently the time it takes to learn things is not worth the increase in knowledge you get from it, because you have to learn even the tiniest things. It would be easier to die screaming, alone, oxygen-starved in space, and, famously, it wouldn't even disturb anyone.

I know that this is entirely not the point of the game, and that, in the Dwarf Fortress tradition, one should embrace failure. Some people reading this will probably have reacted like a cartoon wolf seeing a hot lady, tongues lolling, pupils heart-shaped. Part of my anhedonia in this regard is self-manufactured, but I'm not a lab rat player who needs a pellet every time I press a button, either. But The Last Starship obviously has a lot of buttons to press, and it would be nice to know where some of them are, and what their intended use is, even if it isn't pellet delivery. And, indeed, it looks like at some point The Last Starship will have missions - even a story!

The Settled Systems of Starfield are rich, vibrant, and full of life and activities. From various unique side characters to different interesting factions, the game does its best to immerse you in all of its worlds. This immersive experience is undoubtedly why the Settled Systems have a rich history, and even the fantastic weapons and incredible starships have genuinely interesting origins.

Each starship has a manufacturing company that produces several different ship parts that serve different functions and try to outperform their competitors in the market, so naturally, there are some that are better than others.

Their Hunter Mag-450 Missile Launcher is among the best ballistic ship weapons in the game. You can never go wrong with a good energy weapon in Starfield. Horizon Defense offers plenty; most impressively, they have the Dragon 251P UV Pulse Laser.

Among their incredible list of shield generators, Fortress A3 is one of the best shield generators in the game. They also have other solid options, like the Tower N420 and Bastille S84 shield generators.

Slayton Aerospace is behind the SDG 2300 grav drive, one of the game's most impressive grav drives. Their ship engines are also very impressive, and they are responsible for the SAE 5220 ship engine, which is up there with some of the best ship engines in the Settled Systems.

Their Spheromak DC202 ship reactor immediately springs to mind when discussing some of the best ship reactors you can acquire. They also offer a good range of grav drives with some genuinely high-quality stuff, like the Apollo GV300 grav drive.

Panoptes has one main goal: to manufacture the best ship engine in the Settled Systems. They have a good list of cargo holds that make your looting and resource gathering more effective and enjoyable.

However, their single most remarkable achievement is the production of the Poseidon DT-230, which is undoubtedly the best ship engine available in Starfield. They also boast the game's second-best ship engine, the Poseidon DT-220 engine.

Protectorate Systems is determined to produce some of the best cargo holds the Settled Systems have ever seen. If you get your hands on one of their better cargo holds for your ship, your resource-gathering and looting capabilities will skyrocket.

They also have some fantastic shield generators to boost the defensive capabilities of your ship in the face of danger. Their Odin 3050-C shield generator is among Starfield's best available shield generators.

They have a variety of incredible shields, like the Deflector SG-30 shield generator, the Warden SG-400 shield generator, and the Assurance SG-1800 shield generator, which is the best shield generator in the game.

They have incredible ship weapons like the Reza 300PHz SX Pulse Laser Turret, which is capable of some astonishing damage and is up there among some of the best laser weapons available in the Settled Systems.

The Nova Galactic Company is one of the most prominent ship manufacturers in the Settled Systems. They are best known for their work on some of the finest cockpits, habs, and structurals you can get your hands on in the Settle Systems.

As for weapons, Ballistic Solutions Inc. offers some of the best ship weapons anyone can get their hands on, including the PBO-100 Auto Neutron Beam, PBO-175 Auto Helion Beam, KE-42 Cannon, PB-30 Electron Beam, and most impressively, the PBO-30 Auto Electron Beam.

Human society recruits starship troopers to fight the Bug. Their method is to machine-gun them to death. This does not work very well. Three or four troopers will fire thousands of rounds into a Bug, which like the Energizer Bunny just keeps on comin'. Grenades work better, but I guess the troopers haven't twigged to that. You'd think a human race capable of interstellar travel might have developed an effective insecticide, but no.

It doesn't really matter, since the Bugs aren't important except as props for the interminable action scenes, and as an enemy to justify the film's quasi-fascist militarism. Heinlein was of course a right-wing saberrattler, but a charming and intelligent one who wrote some of the best science fiction ever. "Starship Troopers'' proposes a society in which citizenship is earned through military service, and values are learned on the battlefield.

The film's narration is handled by a futuristic version of the TV news, crossed with the Web. After every breathless story, the cursor blinks while we're asked, "Want to know more?'' Yes, I did. I was particularly intrigued by the way the Bugs had evolved organic launching pods that could spit their spores into space, and could also fire big globs of unidentified fiery matter at attacking space ships. Since they have no technology, these abilities must have evolved along Darwinian lines; to say they severely test the theory of evolution is putting it mildly.

On the human side, we follow the adventures of a group of high-school friends from Buenos Aires. Johnny (Casper Van Dien) has a crush on Carmen (Denise Richards), but she likes the way Zander (Patrick Muldoon) looks in uniform. When she signs up to become a starship trooper, so does Johnny. They go through basic training led by an officer of the take-no-prisoners school (Michael Ironside) and then they're sent to fight the Bug. Until late in the movie, when things really get grim, Carmen wears a big wide bright smile in every single scene, as if posing for the cover of the novel. (Indeed, the whole look of the production design seems inspired by covers of the pulp space opera mags like Amazing Stories).

The action sequences are heavily laden with special effects, but curiously joyless. We get the idea right away: Bugs will jump up, troopers will fire countless rounds at them, the Bugs will impale troopers with their spiny giant legs, and finally dissolve in a spray of goo. Later there are refinements, like firebreathing beetles, flying insects, and giant Bugs that erupt from the earth. All very elaborate, but the Bugs are not interesting in the way, say, that the villains in the "Alien" pictures were. Even their planets are boring; Bugs live on ugly rock worlds with no other living species, raising the question of what they eat. be457b7860

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