Eden Beta Reclamation

The year is 2347. Humanity has long since abandoned a choked and ravaged Earth, scattering amongst the stars like cosmic dandelion seeds. You are Anya Sharma, a Reclamation Surveyor, a fancy title for someone whose job boils down to sifting through the ruins of dead colonies, looking for anything salvageable. It's not glamorous work, but it pays the bills, barely. For years, you've been scraping by on the fringes of known space, your aging freighter, the 'Dust Devil', a constant source of mechanical woes and existential dread. Your latest contract, however, promises something… different. The Kepler-186f colony, designated "Eden-Beta," went silent seventy years ago. Officially, it was attributed to a terraforming malfunction, a tragic accident. Closed case. Except, the Kepler Dominion, the corporation that oversaw the colony, is paying an obscene amount for a survey of the site. And they're being suspiciously vague about what they're looking for. Your gut screams that something's not right. As the Dust Devil breaches the atmosphere of Eden-Beta, the sensors scream warnings. The air is breathable, but thick with an unnatural, cloying sweetness. Strange, bioluminescent flora carpets the landscape, pulsing with an eerie light. Your landing coordinates place you near the abandoned central hub, a skeletal framework of metal and glass reaching towards a sky that's more emerald green than blue. The initial scan reveals no immediate dangers. No hostile fauna, no structural collapses. Just… silence. A pervasive, unsettling silence that seems to hum with a hidden energy. This is where you come in. You'll need to navigate the treacherous ruins of Eden-Beta, scavenging for resources, deciphering cryptic logs, and piecing together the truth behind the colony's demise. You'll face dangers both natural and unnatural, test your resourcefulness and your sanity, and ultimately, decide the fate of whatever remains on this forgotten world. Prepare yourself, Anya Sharma. The Dust Devil has landed. Eden-Beta awaits. And it has secrets it doesn't want you to find. Are you ready to dig? Because what you unearth might just bury you alive.