Andromeda

Andromeda is a space-themed server in Eternum. It holds the record for being the biggest Eternum server, having more than 30,000 star systems with unique orbiting planets. FTL travel is available in the server letting players roam without boundaries. Planets are ununowned, allowing anyone to establish a colony. Most players and settlements are within the Kalanar asteroid belt. Andromeda was a promotional server for Eternum, released at the same time as the game and has expanded ever since.

The server is home to Astrocorp's station that provides a romantic location to take your partner on a data. The space station (USCSS Icarus) orbits Nox 7, a planet that orbits the star Zheta-A. 25,000 players visit the planet every day. The station is host to many activities including: a movie theater, a Zero-G chamber, 4D bowling, an ice rink, and a planetarium.

## Appearances

### Chapter 4:

Andromeda first appears if Orion takes Annie there for their first date. Orion is able to try the Astrocorp station's facitilies for free since he is a new Eternum player. Annie and Orion visit the theater and try out the Zero-G experience. At this point, aliens wreak havoc upon the station and the power goes out. Orion and Annie are separated and Orion must try to find her. Along the way he runs into several suspicous characters that all seem to hold a piece of the clue as to what happened to the station. Orion can also collect audio cards along the way, detailing Isaac Langston's investigation of the alien outbreak. If Orion survives long enoug to find Annie, they are attacked by aliens while waiting for the teleporter to charge. Orion and Annie die in an explosion if Orion has not previously purchased the Pendant of Destiny for Annie during their first session in Ion.

## The Alien Outbreak

At some point before Orion and Annie visit the station, the maintenance engineer, Isaac Langston, encounters a massacre of autisitic patients that have been viciously killed by some sort of creature. Dr. Mercer and her friend later discover alien eggs while exploring the planet Nox 7. Dr. Mercer's friend has an alien planted in her to be its host. Before she dies, Isaac Langston finds her while tracking the source of the aliens. Before she dies, she mentions that her friend, causing Isaac Langston to investigate Astrocorp. Dr. Mercer has been experimenting with the eggs at a labratory hidden in Astrocorps space station for hosting dates. Isaac Langston's final recording details his final moments as he is attacked by an alien aboard the station. His body is later found by Orion as he himself flees the station.

Dr. Mercer is chained to a pipe during the alien outbreak and may be freed by Orion. If so, she kills Commander Hasler and rescues Vasil, her test subject and assistant. She vows to continue researching the aliens because she is impressed by their genetics and wants to recreate them in the real world.

Isaac Langston speculates that the aliens may have a connection to the real life Alien franchise but is unable to find any monetary or publicity connection. Further digging reveals that the movie was created after a dream which Isaac Langston and Orion both wonder about. They both seem to think that the movie's creator may have had a dream about something from within Eternum before the game even existed.

## Trivia

The Andromeda Galaxy is the closest other major galaxy to the Milky Way.

The USCSS Icarus is named after the Greek mythological figure who made wings to attempt to fly to the sun.