It Came from the Sky

"It Came From the Sky" is the mission assigned to the player by Ecologist Empires, and is one of the adventure missions that the player can accept in the Space stage.

Summary
An alien ship whose inhabitants seem to have carried a deadly contagion has crash-landed near a base on a remote planet. The empire that assigned the mission has lost contact with the base for quite some time, and has sent the player to investigate.

At the time of the player's arrival near the crashed space ship, many of the base's inhabitants have either died or gone mad from the alien contagion. The base gates are broken, and alien skins litter the snow around the base. From the landing site, the player must talk to Blaair and the other few creatures who have not yet been contaminated by the contagion.

In an enclosure at the back of the base, near a small graveyard of those killed by the contagion, are the last remaining alien survivors from the crashed starship: one of the aliens and his seemingly immune daughter, Eftie. The player must talk to both in order to fulfill his/her orders to find out what happened at the base.

After this point, however, the player is confronted with the infected undead inhabitants of the base, and must bring Eftie past the insane creatures to the extraction point just off of the crash site. None of the sane creatures the captain talked to before are still alive, save for one of the creatures' dog-like pet. The Infected, as the game labels them, try to make Eftie and the captain stay behind in death before either can reach the extraction point, and escape.

Once the captain has returned to the empire that assigned the mission, it is unknown what the ultimate fate of Eftie is; the empire's representative says that her blood will be examined as part of the search for the cure to the contagion.