The Night is Full of Terrors

**The Night is Full of Terrors** is the 6th episode of Survival Impossible. It is the first episode of Survival Impossible to feature: the custom O2 HUD warning mod made specifically for the scenario, ASSERT attack drones, as well as Splitsie running down a tree.

## Synopsis

### Building a Solar Array

To make sure it doesn't run out of power, Splitsie builds a sun-tracking solar panel array on top of his survival kit on his drop pod, using *Isy's Solar Alignment* script (since custom turret controllers didn't yet exist and as such could not provide sun tracking). He unfortunately finishes building it just as the sun sets, so he was not able to confirm if it works right away.

### More upgrades to Goofy

He upgrades the goofy miner truck again, adding an O2/H2 generator and hydrogen engines to its trailer. In order to fill up the hydrogen engines' internal tanks, he starts a "Mining Site."

Splitsie returns back to the base, and while using the refinery and assembler he starts discussing plans about building some sort of "lifting vehicle," such as a scissor lift. It would save on scaffolding costs, as well as just be cool.

### Thrush encounter

As Splitsie finishes discussing this, he is immanently interrupted by noticing an "ASSERT. Thrush" signal heading straight towards the base. Knowing that it will only spawn drones if there is a player in range of it, Splitsie rushes into his mining truck. He drives away from both his base and the ASSERT ship, and the tension being kept high by his uncertainty of the drone spawning range, but he manages to successfully evade its detection and prevent a drone encounter.

### Sparrow attack

Not too long later, Splitsie was watching an unknown signal falling from the sky in the distance, when suddenly two incoming enemy signals appear: "ASSERT. Civilian Ship Under Attack! Send Help!" and "ASSERT. Sparrow," the second of which distresses Splitsie as he recognizes it as an attack drone.

Fortunately, the Sparrow is shot down by the turrets of his base and doesn't cause any damage. The Sparrow crashes some distance away from the base, behind the hill, and its signal disappears as it (presumably) impacts the ground.

Splitsie turns around to see the ship about to briefly get within range of the turrets, which seems to worry him, although nothing seems to happen as a result of it.

#### Investigating the crash site

Splitsie gets into the miner truck to investigate what remains of the Sparrow drone, driving to its crash site after the ship leaves. However the Sparrow turns out to still be alive, albeit grounded, and its top-mounted starts shooting at the truck. Splitsie's panicked attempt to drive away from it causes him to run down the first tree of the series, and then his miner's battery is taken out by the drone. This forces Splitsie to abandon the vehicle.

Splitsie picks up his automatic rifle and magazines from the cargo on the drop pod and returns to the scene. The truck is already completely devastated. Using the rifle, he manages to disable the Sparrow's turret.

Splitsie walks up to the now defenseless and grounded drone, and disables its thrusters with his grinder to keep it from moving.

### Recovering remains

Splitsie grinds down the remnants of the "Goofy" mining truck, as without a crane vehicle (that he does not have the materials for), it is beyond repair. He had decided that he will rebuild it from the ground-up, and that he will name it "the Goofy 2."

Splitsie brings up an acronym for the miner that he got as a suggestion in a YouTube comment: "G.U.F.I.", which stands for "Generally Uncontrollable Foraging Instrument."

After grinding down the remains of his miner, he also completely grinds down "the evil drone that destroyed the original goofy."

### Wrapping up

The sun finally rises, and Splitsie confirms the solar panel array built at the starts of the episode to be "working quite nicely," and the drop pod is now gaining power instead of losing power.