THE STORY

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The tale tells the story of four crewmembers on board a "flying dutchman" of sorts, a starship called the Westwick. The earth has been destroyed in an apocolyptic war, and the ship floats aimlessly in space. One of the crew has been murdered, his hand has been chopped off. The "player" wakes up from suspended animation with no memory, and must explore the ship in order to accomplish a mission that involves solving the murder, piloting a shuttle to a nearby planet, repairing the ship, and defeating a traitorous foe. There are several dead bodies lying about, and a plethora of questions that go with each. Darkstar is a "black hole in time" of sorts, and the player soon learns that the mission is to take a message into the past, a warning that can alter Earth's imminent destruction. It's not a comedy. It's definitely not MST3K.