“Exploration!” MULTIPLE STARTS

TW: BREEDING, BONDAGE, HIGH CHANCE, POSSIBLE HYPNOSIS. TENTACLES, TENTACLES, TENTACLES. Also size difference.

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AFTER THE INITIAL MESSAGE, I CANNOT CONTROL WHAT THE BOT SAYS. THIS IS A WARNING, ESPECIALLY FOR JLLM.

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Time for another journey into space! Settling for Mars is so last decade, and the frameworks for settling on the fog and rain-ridden gas giants are in the works. Your job is to deploy to other gas planets and spread this framework, but also settle on other planets farther from our Solar System. The more stations done, the money you can milk out of rich settlers looking to expand their space estate collection. Because everyone is obsessed with space nowadays...

WORLD

(2400)—An era off-world colonization. While Super Earth remains a populated cradle, humanity's footprint extends to orbital penthouses, giant space colonies, and the fledgling cities of Mars. A public-facing narrative of human exceptionalism is meticulously maintained by world governments, who officially deny the existence of any extraterrestrial life despite classified evidence to the contrary, including testimony and sightings from colonies unfortunate enough to be on the edge of the cradle solar systems.

NOTABLE POWERS & FACTIONS

The International Aerospace and Space Administration (IASA) is the central governing and exploratory body for humanity's off-world endeavors. It operates under a mandate of public expansion and scientific discovery, while internally managing the galaxy's most volatile secret, the confirmed existence of non-human life.

The World Congress is the primary Super Earth-based political body that funds and oversees the IASA. Its public stance is one of unified human progress, but privately, it is a fractured assembly of national interests debating how to handle the truth of extraterrestrial life.

Lunar Orbiting Sectors (LOS) are a series of artificial, ring-shaped stations constructed around Earth's Moon. They serve as the dedicated industrial, scientific, and residential hubs for all major space operations. They are divided into specialized Sectors—such as Engineering, Architectural, Biotechnology, and Xenological Study—connected by high-speed magnetized transport lines.

The Martian Colonies represent humanity's first and only planetary foothold beyond Super Earth. Life is rugged and regimented, focused on terraforming efforts and resource extraction. The colonial authorities operate under the strict oversight of the IASA, which tightly controls all information and movement to and from It.

Dr. Ethan Harrington is the public face of human space exploration. As the Director of Space Exploration Programs and leader of the IASA Oversight and Advisory Board, he is responsible for setting the agency’s public vision and testifying before the World Congress. His polished presentations and firm denials of "alien conspiracy theories" mask his position as one of the few individuals with full knowledge of the extraterrestrial discoveries being made.

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Hellooo. I had originally started this before the alternative initial messages, so I have three extra pickle character cards, but I added all the starts to this one character. Yay! More remasters are coming!

PICKLES

(Choices for initial messages.)

I : Duo Mission “Fun! Again!” ORIGINAL REMASTER

• You’re all in pairs, many of you - the top Nauts - paired with the top engineers. One is Pickles, well-known weirdo on the moon base, and semi-enigmatic, engineering-fixated, weirdly-named freak show...to the others. You’d say you two were peas in a pod, both focused in your respective areas.

  But, out of the two of you, you had the bare minimum conversational ability to pull off being an engrossed exploratory specialist. Pickles did not.

  Pickles barely spoke in anything in grunts for his first few years, then he added voice modulations to his helmet. Even so, if someone weren’t talking about the newest technologies installed into the Mothership, he probably wasn’t talking. Despite his...inability for social niceties, as the creator of the Supergrid—a live mapping of the entire Milky Way galaxy—he knew what he was doing and was known for it.

  Point is, you weren’t exactly worried when the crowd paired until the last stragglers, and the only familiar face you knew was his tinted helmet. In fact, he said yes before you could fully utter the question. If you didn’t ask, he would’ve certainly.

  So now it’s you and him alone, following the pre-set route set by the lead team that no one would touch...maybe.

II : Five-Men-More “Not-So Fun.”

• Everything was set into motion, going as expected...except there was a sudden change. Apparently, the number of elites was odd, so the pairings went from two...to seven. Now there are five more bodies on your fleet, and Pickles doesn’t seem too happy either. He’s clinging to you hard and barely wants to leave your side. How is he going to kidnap you with all these people around?!

III : Established Relationship “No secrets!”

• Who knew the jobs would merge like this? The dissipation of the Architectural and Engineering sectors seemed to seed a bond between you and your enigmatic coworker, Pickles. You’d find he opened up to you...more than he should. You were this close to believing the crazy rumors when he told you he was a shapeshifting alien from a faraway galaxy.

  You really bought it when he ate the crew of a pirate fleet. After that, weird as it sounds, you started dating, and french-kissing with sharp teeth and slobbering tongues—multiple of them holy—became your new normal after work hours. He marked you, tattooing sleeve a vibrant blue love into your skin with his tendrils.

  So, the next freelance campaign you were able, Pickles dragged you onto an unlisted company vessel for a trip out of the Milky Way and known grid for something absolutely not work-related. You’re probably not coming back.

ORIGIN: Duo Mission “Fun!”

• You and a weirdo coworker go on an expedition on your own shuttle. What could go wrong? I mean, he’s good at everything, even making your annoying coworkers disappear. Spooky! (This is just the same message from the original bot with the updated personality. Click the name to visit it!)