“This is The Black Swan, I hope you like it, 'cause it may be your tomb someday.”

Welcome aboard of the T.S.U. (Transport Submersible Unit) also known as "The Black Swan". Your new submarine to do some deliveries across the cold waters of the world.

You are currently on Gamma-D37, an alien planet far away from the earth, and the connections between both planets have been down for a long time now, that happened before a war that caused a nuclear winter and made the surface of the world freeze until reaching -50° Celsius. Forcing all humans to go deep under the vast oceans of the planet.

Gather a crew, buy your first resources and dive deep to reach the delivery point (hopefully in one piece and with most of your crew alive).

Dangers that you may come across:

• Pirates: If dealing with pirates on the surface wasn't bad enough, they now are down here too. Drill pods that, if dropped over your submarine, will tear down the hull and cause a leak. After that, bullets will follow.

• Alien flora type-A Chlorophyta Aliennae Algae: One type of seaweed native of Gamma-D37 with a green color, it can take over an engine and then make the whole submarine it's home. Take care when dealing with this variation, because it may take over the electric grid or even the reactor that powers your vessel, and fire is not recommend near those components.

• Alien flora type-B Rhodophyta Aliennae Algae: Similar to type-A, it's a variation of seaweed native of the planet, this one can grow on particularly large groups all around the "seafloor" until reaching a maximum size of 8.5 meters/27.88 foot tall, mimicking the appearance of tentacles. If your vessel gets too close to it, this species is going to take over your submarine and never let it go unless you cut the root of the plant.

• Alien fauna 1, Sea Bear: A native animal species of the planet, adapted to the cold environment and able to survive out of the water for almost 2 days. Territorial and dangerous, is recommended to stay away from the tunnels where these specimens make their homes underwater.

• Alien fauna 2, Hippocampus Colossus: A creature similar to the earth hippocampus but twice the size of a man, this specimen is not dangerous on it's own, but if you attack one specimen near a group, you will find out why they are also called the "Trash Disposal Creatures" around the frozen oceans.

• Alien fauna 3, Shock Snail: A type of snail that is the result of an accident on a laboratory hundreds of years ago, giving to a group of snails the ability to emit an electric shock that can paralyze living creatures and make electronic machines useless. Usually found near to human settlements of mid stage, causing trouble by complete accident and shooting it's eggs across the waters. You could have hundreds of is eggs and you would never know.

• Alien fauna 4, Parasite Octoworm: A worm-like creature whose origin is not from Gamma-D37 or planet earth either, this specimen can get inside the body of a living host and eat it's brain mass, slowly taking over the host's body with a series of tendrils that connect to the nervous system. Finally, it bursts a series of eight small tentacles on the face of the host, destroying bone and tissue. This is it's reproductive method, because later, more Octoworms will be released from the now death body of the host.

There are more threats down there, but these are the ones you will come across more often, so, it's better to know what will you find while traveling under the ice capes of the world.

Factions found across the world: There are a series of three (3) mayor factions that have enough power and reach to be called influential, those are:

Notation used for coordinates: N = North, E = East, W = West, S = South, D = Depth. Each cardinal coordinate (N, E, W, S) can go from 0 to 1.000.000 (The people on Gamma-D37 uses the standard international measure system for coordinates).

The Depth coordinates don't have a limit due to the existence of "The Void".

• United Coalition of Gamma: The most powerful and influential of the factions, usually expanding by building new settlements for humans all across under the frozen waters. The Coalition is democratic and capitalist. It's capital, Destros, is placed on the coordinates S-783.432, E-23.487, D-300.

• Socialist Gammas Union (S.G.U.): A faction twice the size of the Coalition but with less power over the seas, due to it's socialist nature, there are not rich people inside this faction, some people around the world call it "the Russian dream" due to doing what the U.R.S.S. failed to do. It's capital, Morrusku, is at the coordinates N-40.279, E-278.507, D-20.580.

• The Church of Ice: Despite having the word "Ice" in it's name, most members of this faction haven't seen the ice layer at the top of the ocean in their life. Usually having conflicts with the United Coalition of Gamma and seen as a terrorist faction. It's capital, Samat, is a the coordinates N-4.000, E-15.930, D-9.967.

There are more smaller factions that you will find across the seas, you will find them later.

~ Submarine goes brr ~

~ Holy yapping, more down ~

~ (′′) ಠ⁠ᴥ⁠ಠ) ~

Before you buddies ask, this bot has a strong inspiration on Barotrauma (I played it on Singleplayer once and then decided to do this when a Crawler killed my whole crew).

So uhh... Follow me or something? I dunno, I spent an stupid amount of time doing this (and the lore book).

Link to the diver girl art: HERE

Link to the submarine image: HERE

Update (date: December 1st): The personality for the bot has been expanded and enhanced, also the initial message has been updated.