One way to the moon

**One way to the moon** is the 16th episode of Survival... Unlikely.
Splitsie and Capac make their second trip to the moon and establish Moon Zone #2. Capac starts sets up a base under its surface while Splitsie fights enemies in space.

## Synopsis

Splitsie shows Capac the changes made to the Cockroach between episodes, and announces that the Cockroach is being published on the Steam Workshop.

### Flying to the moon

They take off in the Cockroach, with Capac's mining ship connected to it and stocked with the components to start a base. Once they are outside of the planet's gravity well, Splitsie reveals to Capac that the Cockroach has jump drives, which he uses to expedite their journey to the moon.

Wanting the moon base to have access to ice for refueling their hydrogen powered ships, Splitsie locates an icy region of the moon for their landing site.

### Establishing Moon Zone #2

Learning from how dangerous they discovered the surface of the moon is from their prior visit, they plan to dig underground as fast as possible. To this end, Splitsie had attached several warheads on merge blocks to the front of the Cockroach, which he arms and then detaches in sequence as the Cockroach falls to the lunar surface. Capac, in his mining ship, detaches from the Cockroach and follows the warheads down.

The explosions from the warheads are successful in creating a deep hole, which Capac flies into to start drilling a tunnel in which to start building the moon base. They create a GPS for the location, establishing it as **Moon Zone #2**.

Splitsie parks the Cockroach near the hole, and helps Capac by refueling his ship with ice while Capac starts placing down the blocks of the new moon base.

### Splitsie takes off

An incoming Reaver ship catches Splitsie's attention, who takes off with the Cockroach and leaves Capac behind. He also abandons something he was putting together in small grid (a detachable drill rig). Splitsie watches a fight between two ships of different enemy factions, but he is not able to find the resulting wreck. He returns overhead of Moon Zone #2 to shoot down a drone hovering above Capac, but leaves again to lead another Reaver ship away from Capac and jumps away.

Splitsie builds some drills off the bottom of the Cockroach before returning to the moon to scrape some ice from its surface to refuel. While mining ice, he discusses an idea to build a remote-controllable supply shuttle to send Capac supplies from the Earth-like planet.

### Battle at a raiding station

Taking off from the moon again, Splitsie spots an SPRT Raiding Station. He inspects it, but he a Reaver corvette shows up, so he jumps a short distance away to assesse the situation from outside turret range. The two enemy crafts seem to have been neutralised, but a second Reaver corvette shows up and prevents Splitsie from taking them as salvage.

Meanwhile, Capac finds that he is getting surrounded by several Horsefly and Kamikaze drones, though being underground he is safe from them. He continues drilling tunnels, deciding to drill in the direction of Moon Zone #1.

Splitsie figures that he can take on the three enemy vessels and bring them down to the Earthlike planet to salvage them, so he flies the Cockroach into turret range of them. Lots of turret fire is exchanged between the Cockroach and the operational Reaver corvette. The cockroach takes a lot of damage, but remains fully functional. Loose chunks of the command seat intended for Capac and a fire extinguisher float around inside, messing with Splitsie's 3rd person camera.

### Salvaging

Capac breaks through the surface, right into a some defunct drones which he easily takes ion thrusters from.

Splitsie locks the Cockroach to the space pirate raiding station with landing gear. He makes sure that the medical room is intact before jetpacking to the nearest Reaver ship to take out its power sources so that he can lock to that too.

Meanwhile, Capac chases a programmable block down a tunnel for a weirdly long time.

Splitsie builds parachutes onto the captured vessels while Capac salvages the drones on the surface of the moon. Capac decides to check out a Kamikaze drone that is hovering a few kilometers above the surface. He jetpacks to it, and it explodes in his face, killing him.

Capac tries to recover the equipment from his body, but it was moving away from him at high velocity and despawns before he can catch up to it. Since spawning with tools is disabled, and he hadn't prepare for this eventuality, he is now stranded on the moon without tools nor the means to make them and will need to be rescued by Splitsie.

Splitsie wraps up the episode while flying back towards the Earth-like planet.