The Starflight I Resource

Sega Starflight STUFF!!

• THE ALIENS - The different Aliens you'll encounter.

• THE NECESSARY OBJECTS - The objects you must have and what you have to do with them to complete the game.

• THE ARTIFACTS - The locations of the artifacts in Starflight.

• THE CREW - Which races you should assign to which positions.

• THE STORY - What's ACTUALLY going on in the game.

• THE SOLUTION - What you have to accomplish to win the game.

• THE TIPS - A few hints on how to make money fast and avoid "getting brutally killed".

• The Velox "The best of questions and happily answering." - Large creatures of the insect variety. They're an intelligent race, but extremely vain, and almost always seem to want your fuel when they find you trespassing. When talking with them, try to stick to obsequious or friendly, but don't use hostile or they'll do their best to brutally kill you. If you don't want to pay the tax, see TIPS below for a way out. If you want information, though, go ahead and pay it. Almost ALL the races have SOMETHING useful to tell you, and the Velox aren't the exception.

• The Spemin "PLEEEEASE don't hurt us! Think of our wives and little blobbies back home!"- These disgusting little things are full of bravado, and will almost always be obnoxiously insulting when you first meet them. They respond well to discipline, however, but the only reliable way to keep them begging is the get the Whining Orb that's for sale in the Trade Depot. They have some useful information to give you, once you have them groveling. They have a set of flux jump points into Uhlek space that you'll need to get something later.

• The Thrynn "Why do you hail usssssss?" - Machine-loving dinosaur-like creatures. They are conniving and deceptive. They offer the coordinates for the Uhlek Brain world, but be careful to check those against those for the Elowan Homeworld. They and the Thrynn have something of a blood feud going. If you have any Elowan on your ship, they'll open fire. If they read any artifacts on your ship, they'll try to trade you for them. DON'T DO THIS. They'll cheat you. Again, if you MUST talk with them, be sure to get rid of all your Elowan crewmembers and that you have enough money to create and train them when you're through.

• The Elowan "Hast thou ever partaken of HeadFruit?" - Peace-loving poets in plant form. Don't ever tell them you eat Headfruit, or they'll get mad at you. The only race they truly hate are the Thrynn. They always tell the truth, and they have a bunch of neat stuff to tell you. Unfortunately, because of the afore-mentioned blood feud, they'll fire at you if you have any Thrynn onboard or if you've been talking to them recently. Try to avoid this. Other than that, they're pretty friendly, but don't lie to them when they ask you if you need energy.

• The Mechans "We were not programmed for this contingency. We must verify." - Business-like Androids who are just trying to do their job. Believe what you like about who you are, but when they ask you questions, answer, "Of COURSE I'm Group 9...how did you guess? And isn't Noah a NIFTY guy? And I HATE that Layton fellow. Gosh, I'm glad we're derived from Empire Technology. Well, we're ready to go to Heaven now. Please change from Code Blue to Code Red." After you answer all their questions correctly, they'll offer their databanks to you. Pump them for all they're worth.

• The Mysterions "100010001001111001." - Large, completely harmless binary creatures. I've recently been informed that they're transmitting the coordinates of a planet, if you take the time to decipher their message. Unfortunately, I didn't get the entire e-mail, so I don't have the message translation.

• The Uhlek "*The Explosion of Your Ship*" - No one knows what they look like. They'll kill you very very fast. Only phasers work on these guys. They don't talk. They just fight. As soon as they see you. The only way to survive is to kill them or run. If you try to kill them, good luck. If you run, don't look back. They're a species with a collective conciousness called the Uhlek Brain World. If you destroy that...they can't attack you any more, but until then, shields up and weapons armed in Uhlek territory.

• The Minstrels "From inward out the races flee, looking for a place to hide..." - Large space-roaming creatures. These guys are harmless, and tell the entire story of what's going on if you listen the right way. They have no offensive weapons, and don't answer questions, so after you hear their song once, don't bother with them any more, unless you want to explicate it. :)

• The Gazurtoid "Repent, air-breathers, repent! The hour of judgement is at hand..." - Religious Octopi who only wish to cleanse the universe of vile air-breathers. If they find you with your shields up and/or your weapons armed, they'll probably attack you. Be careful in their territory. If you play it obsequious all the way and don't do anything aggressive, they'll just rail at you for a while and then let you go, which is a good thing since you need phasers to make it through their shields.

• MINOR ENCOUNTERS
  • The Nomad Probe "Beginning data transfer." - This is very likely the most useful straight information giving machine in the whole game. It has a big list of planets both livable and minable. Squeeze everything you can out of it. It also has some other information, but doesn't respond to questioning. Just take it as it gives to your computers.
  
  
  • The Derelict Spacecraft "We've been forced to put down on the second planet of system..." - This is where the distress call the Velox talk about is coming from. You'll find some more information on the old Empire when you find out where they've landed, and some tantilizing tidbits of history.
  
  
  • The Veloxi Probes "::RESPOND::" - These things are harmless as long as you answer them correctly. All correct answers are multiples of 6, 6 being a favorite number with the Veloxi.

• The Crystal Cone - Points out the location of the nexus on the Crystal Planet that you need to destroy.

• The Crystal Orb - Keeps your Engine from overheating so you can orbit and land on the Crystal Planet.

• The Black Egg - A Planet Bomb. There are three in the game, one for the Crystal Planet, one for the Uhlek Brain world, and one just for kicks. You MUST use one for the Crystal Planet.

• The Flat Device - This may not be VITAL to winning the game, but it makes it a hell of a lot easier. This automatically transports a low-fuel A.T.V. back to the ship, thereby doubling the distance you can explore each turn.

BLACK EGG 143,115 P1 28N X 4E

BLACK EGG 2 234,20 P2 35S X 99E

BLACK EGG 3 238,189 P3 52N X 16E

CRYSTAL CONE 20,198 P1 29S X 55W

CRYSTAL ORB 132,165 P1 46N X 14E

CRYSTAL PEARL 56,144 P1 29N X 13W

DODECAHEDRON 118,146 P4 16S X 20W

FOCUSING STONE 81,98 P1 44S X 137W

HYPERCUBE 215,86 P3 12N X 104W

RED CYLINDER 112,200 P3 59N X 64W

RING DEVICE 215,86 P4 90N X 0W/E

ROD DEVICE 180,124 P2 59N X 22E

SHIMMERING ORB 68,66 P1 12N X 32E

TESSERACT 18,50 P5 15N X 44W