Nexus Portal Entrance

Occurs in:

1. Hektar Mega-Market™

Ship: Travelling Merchant

*The coordinates you found in Sylvan's secret room lead to a seemingly unremarkable stretch of space. You detect a couple anomalous signals but your preliminary scans can't lock onto anything.*

## Event

1. (Anomaly Detector) Your scanners are showing all kinds of strange results. [Only occurs if the player has an Anomaly Detector]
	* *Your advanced scanners lock onto a strange anomaly some distance away. You track it down and soon find in the atmosphere of a vast ocean planet facing a giant rift. For a few moments you can bring yourself to do nothing other than stare in awe until you snap back to reality and take notice of the even more unusual patterns of this particular rift. Its unusually stable, and if you didn't know better you'd almost say its man-made...*
		1. Continue...
			+ *In the distance you can make out a ship flying towards you, and you quickly realize its Sylvan! "Ssstranger, you ssshould not be here... How did you find thisss placcce? Oh, it doesss not matter. But you mussst not ssstay here ssstranger. It isss dangerousss!"*
				1. What is this place?
					- *"Thisss isss not a good time for quessstionsss, ssstranger. You mussssn't go any clossser. I wissssh I could explain ssstranger, but thisss isss very ssserious. Thissss isss my final warning. Turn back or I'll have no choiccce but to make you, sssstranger..."*
						1. We aren't leaving until we find out what this is.
							* *"Then I'm afraid you give me no choicccce, ssstranger..."*
								1. Fight the Traveling Merchant
						2. Bide his warning and leave.
							* *"Sssmart choiccce ssstranger. There'sss more important thingsss to be doing anywaysss..."*
				2. *"Sssmart choiccce ssstranger. There'sss more important thingsss to be doing anywaysss..."*
2. Guess there was no point to coming here.
	* *As disappointing as it is, you can't discern any reason for having come here. Guess this was just a waste of time. Or maybe there was something more that you just couldn't find...*
		+ (Perform a storage check or do nothing.)

## Fight the Travelling Merchant

**(If the player's ship is reduced to 3 hull)**

* *It seems you're on your last legs. You won't survive much longer, but Sylvan stops firing for a moment and hails you. "I don't wisssh to kill you ssstranger. Leave, and we can forget about thissss...*
	1. Surrender.
		+ *Sylvan powers down his weapons for good and takes one last look at you, guilt all over his face, and slips away into the distance.*
	2. We aren't giving up.
		+ *"Ssstubborn to the end, ssstranger. I sssee how it isss..."*

**(If Sylvan's ship is reduced to 3 hull)**

* *It seems Sylvan is on the brink of destruction. You aren't sure if you really want to kill him.*
	1. Demand Sylvan stands down.
		+ *"It... it ssseemssss I have failed ssstranger. I could not sssave you from yourssself. Oh well... I guessss you have earned what issss on the other end of that rift. But I hope you underssstand ssstranger that... well... you probably won't make it out the other ssside. There are rulesss, ssstranger. They won't like you breaking them." With that ominous note, Sylvan simply jumps away. You notice a lot of debris left from the fight and collect what you can.*
			- You receive 10 , 10 , 10 , 200 , 20 hull repair and a random weapon.
				1. Continue...
	2. Keep on fighting.

**(After defeating the enemy ship by any means)**

* *Sylvan falls to his knees, bleeding profusely from a gash across his face. He manages to gasp out a few final words, "Ssstranger... I hope... thissss wasss worth it...", then falls over. The Traveling Merchant is no more.*
	1. Continue...

## Defeat the Travelling Merchant

*Though a strong layer of Slug sealant keeps the ship together as it begins to break, eventually it gives away under the stress and the ship explodes, scattering cargo containers across the system.*

* You receive a Merchant Shield
	1. Collect the cargo.
		+ *You scoop up the first cargo box, and empty out all of the scrap inside.*
			- You receive a **high** amount of scrap.
				1. Continue...
					* *You open another cargo box, finding even more scrap.*
						+ You receive a **high** amount of scrap.
							1. Continue...
								- *You open another cargo box, finding a weapon and more supplies!*
									* You receive a **high** value weapon.
										1. Continue...
											+ *You open another cargo box, finding a drone among the supplies!*
												- You receive a **high** value drone.
													1. Continue...
														* *You open another cargo box, finding a ton of fuel and scrap inside.*
															+ You receive a **high** amount of fuel.
																1. Continue...

### Continuation:

*You open another cargo box, finding a ton of missiles and scrap inside.*

* You receive a **high** amount of missiles.
	1. Continue...
		+ *You open another cargo box, finding a ton of drone parts and scrap inside.*
			- You receive a **high** amount of droneparts.
				1. Continue...
					* *You open another cargo box, finding a brand new augment and some supplies inside!*
						+ You receive a **high** value augment.
							1. Continue...
								- *You open another cargo box, finding even more supplies!*
									* You receive a **high** amount of stuff.
										1. Continue...
											+ *You open another cargo box, finding a ton of missiles!*
												- You receive a **high** amount of missiles.
													1. Continue

### Continuation

*You open another cargo box, finding a ton of drone parts!*

* You receive a **high** amount of droneparts.
	1. Continue...
		+ *You open another cargo box, finding even more scrap.*
			- You receive a **high** amount of scrap.
				1. Continue...
					* *You open the final box and, to no surprise, you find even more scrap!*
						+ You receive a **high** amount of scrap.
							1. Continue...

## Enter the Nexus Portal

* *There's only one choice left to be made here. Seems this rift is some kind of gateway, but do you really want to see whats on the other side?*
	1. Enter.
		+ *As you begin to approach the rift the space around you becomes progressively more warped, and soon not even your engines are able control your ship as you're sucked at absurd speeds into the heart of the gateway...*
	2. Leave the rift behind.
		+ *Its a tough call, but your primary mission is too important to risk exploring ancient space anomalies.*