Effective Immediately
All intergalactic travel passes through the orbital relay checkpoint. Verify ID discrepancies, repair vehicle systems and struggle against ethical dilemmas as you negotiate a shifting political landscape. Report for duty, Effective Immediately.
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Congratulations,
You have been appointed the position of repair technician on-board the deep space relay station. Pack your belongings, your family can not join you at this time.
Effective Immediately.
Effective Immediately is a gritty, sci-fi future on the verge of political change.
Compare documents for inconsistencies, repair ship systems and ultimately allow or disallow travel. All the while the OCA is piling on more and more bureaucratic red tape in this puzzle, management life-sim.
Make choices that impact the story
Pass judgment and determine the fates of those who pass through the station, your family's and your own.
Verify ID discrepancies
The bureaucratic OCA constantly issue new rules for you to follow. Or purposefully break?
Repair alien spacecraft systems
Use schematics to repair alien ship systems. Be efficient and prosper!
