A Bridge to Destruction

**A Bridge to Destruction** is the 68th episode of Survival Impossible.
Splitsie continues working on the bridge, experiments with building a road train, and gets attacked by a large Reaver.

## Synopsis

### Bridge Building

Continuing what he was doing in the previous episode, Splitsie airlifts the last two airliftable segments of the bridge into place. A projector is left on the bridge deck to aid with eventually building the remaining bridge segments into the rock at the other side.

Splitsie also replaces the missing drills on the Rock Lobster. He initially decides against painting them a different colour, going for using a cleaner skin instead, but he changes his mind and makes them red and rusty.

### Road Train Experiment

As the remainder of the bridge deck will need to be built in-situ, Splitsie decides it is time to build a cargo hauling truck. He builds a small three-segment road train in the garage. To prove the concept, he drives it up the mountain road, to the end of the in-progress bridge. He then gets in the cockpit on the back of the road train and drives it back down the road, but he discovers that it drives much worse backwards, likely due to the hitch design. He does make it back to the garage though, but he crashes it on the way in.

He rebuilds the vehicle with a different hitch design, but it works even worse and renders the vehicle undrivable.

### Pylon Designing

Deeming the worm vehicle to be an "epic failure," Splitsie figures he needs to make greater use of the Panini for finishing the bridge, and he has come up with an idea of how to build the pylons for the bridge.

### Attack of a Reaver Tormentor

Splitsie had barely started designing a pylon when he is interupted by an alert that a Reaver Tormentor has detected a potential target.

He spots the Reaver's signal towards the other side of his base and rushes into the Absconder. Splitsie exclaims at how huge the Tormentor is as it witnesses it fall to the ground while driving.

Splitsie parks the Absconder at the production facility and assesses the situation on foot. The Reaver had crashed into the arboretum, and was now flailing down the hill, taking out trees as it goes. The arboretum received significant damage, and one of the trees inside it had sadly been taken out. Huge craters had also been created next to the building. Creepily, a dead engineer had fallen from the Reaver and was now huddled against the aboretum's exterior (which explains the thumbnail of the video).

Splitsie turns off the turrets of his base to make them stop shooting. He is about to go to the wrecked Reaver on foot, before remembering the Canary drones he has for this purpose. He heads back to the airbase, and he successfully disables all of the wreck's remaining turrets by remotely controlling the Canary.

While looking at the wreck in the Canary, he recognizes the Tormentor as being a corrupted version of the old-school blue ship from the oldest Space Engineers scenarios.

### Scavenging the Wreck

Splitsie heads to the Manny forklift to use it's cargo to support him grinding down the wreck. While waiting for its batteries to recharge, he comes up with the idea of building a Fort Capac printer, now that the Panini is proven to be capable of carrying sizable structures. He starts grinding down some of the wreck, but he realizes this is a bad idea as it is still trying to fly away.

He returns with the Rock Lobster and the parts to build some scaffolding with the plan to climb onto the wreck and de-power it. He comes back to the wreck spinning around and creating more holes in the ground, but it settles enough for him to climb onto it and start working on its insides.

He recovered a few gravity component scrap from it.

While returning to base to unload the Rock Lobster, Splitsie signs off for the episode.