Thanks Crashpac!

In episode 2 of Wrong Way Up, Splitsie welcomes W4stedspace (in military camouflage suit), DE (purple), and Texfire (first light orange, later cow skin). Capac Amaru (dark orange) is late so they plan shenanigans, such as catapulting him from Elysium to Perseii before he wakes up. Splitsie expects the others to have tested building and landing planes on mobile bases, but they laugh and lower his expectations. W4sted found out that their hinged ramp is badly designed, and the Angry Jalopy rover is top-heavy and needs more cargo space. The walkways are incomplete and Splitsie keeps falling off and needs to ride a drill back up. W4sted warns them: Since they have aerodynamics installed, random spoilers, greebling, or silly eyebrows might generate lift, drag, or downforce... Capac joins late because his SE had crashed and escapes the catapult. DE volunteers to be catapulted by Tex and gets slammed into the ground, and the whole Angry Jalopy starts tilting. Capac thinks he is still sleeping and having a fever dream.

(0:30) When they start driving again, Splitsie mistakes east and west and the Jalopy gets stuck a lot. They plan adding a trailer. Tex is skeptical, but w4sted predicts the rover will get more stable the more trailers they add (up to a point). They agree they don't need to create drama, because drama is sure to come from the skies for them... Suddenly, everyone is taking damage! Capac thinks it's Ewoks and DE recognises it as modded acid rain which also damages blocks and destroys unwelded scaffolding. Right before Capac gets lost in the acid fog, he spots a mysterious vehicle called "Karl Urban Assault I". Capac's first death is to acid rain because he was out exploring and could not shelter on the Angry Jalopy fast enough.

They park and add a roof and a trailer hitch to the Angry Jalopy while trying to (mis)pronounce international food names. Splitsie has removed the laggy robot raiders mod and installed a colourblindness mod. DE gives up and declares that aesthetics are now secondary to function. Splitsie and Capac disagree, but DE teases them, if so, then they are building the rover wrong... Tex blames an explosion on an unknown signal to hide that he disconnected the rover's armor panels and left a huge crater.

(1:00) Tex and DE extend the rover's sides asymmetrically in clashing colours. W4sted and Splitsie use a projector to build the blueprint of a trailer. While building the roof, Capac reiterates that this shield also protects the enemies from their defense turret... The colourblind team members cannot see the colour-coding in the blueprint projection and joke that Marek should just release a black&white "Space Engineers Noir". Capac clumsily detaches the gun turret and the new one immediately detects a "bot" hiding under a tree. They spot two NPC bases close by and hear gunshots, but can't leave due to the unfinished trailer. Capac and Splitsie eliminate a sneaky TFE even though Splitsie usually only hits barn-sized targets. Speaking of aiming, Capac offers his compilation of luckiest goals in Rocket League. While Splitsie and DE do some slow drive-by stone mining, Capac eliminates another bot.

(1:30) Splitsie and DE turn mining into a two-man job and Capac "helps" by being the mining canary--flying free, on the roof. "G-g-ghost rock!" Steve mysteriously walks from one seat to another and Capac sends a secret behind-the-scenes message to Splitsie who responds "you do you." Chat is worried the trailers will curve around the moon and Splitsie reveals that they will go to the larger planet soon, but it's unclear how many trailers will make it, they need to run some tests. At this time, they have no Map LCD yet because it's a custom moon. Splitsie and w4sted refuse to rebuild the Twinstick Shooter in large grid. Capac confuses Splitsie by saying "his skeleton" (Hallowe'en decoration) fell over. While digging iron and building drills and trailer wheels DE talks shop about aircraft sizes, capacity, and design. After activating the subgrid control script, they'll need a second backwards facing cockpit to reverse.

Suddenly the Karl Urban Assault vehicle attacks but crashes (free resources!), and the human bots and the protagonists get into a shootout until Capac grinds the attackers' respawn point and they capture the crashed tank. When hacking the vehicle they joke that in SE, PvP protection means "we won't let you paint this grid." They return to normal mining operations which means Capac falls into the hole and Splitsie almost starts driving with a plunge drill extended.

(2:00) Splitsie starts building a runway for a scout ultralight on the trailer while Chat wants to see a flipping runway to protect the planes from acid rain. They accuse DE of being "afraid of fun", even though DE has the most fun paint color. Capac proposes a foldable roof. W4sted proposes a turntable runway so they can land orthogonally and not crash into the front vehicle when overshooting. Capac has repaired the Karl Urban Assault. In full brainstorming mode, W4sted wants a plane pickup crane arm and Capac wants a spinlauncher (another great feature for "Space Engineers Noir"!). W4sted complains that the Space Engineers product description still advertises "joining and glazing", when all he got was his eyes *glazing* over while he's waiting to *join* the server.

Capac adds a large cargo container "sidesaddle" so that the runway can rotate over it, and right when Splitsie says that's dangerous in multiplayer, the runway disintegrates spectecularly due to acid rain. Capac has invented a load-bearing floor hole. The poor Karl Urban Assault got singed in the acid rain. Capac misses the selfrefilling hydrogen bottle mod.

(2:30) They rearm the gatlings and go on a Five Fools mission in the Karl Urban. They arrive at the NPC Observer base, which has drill inhibitors to prevent trenching. They fail to take out the anti-personal turrets and a drone shoots up the Karl Urban, so they return to the Angry Jalopy. W4sted adjusts wheel settings and the others add cargo. Kanajashi in Chat asks if Splitsie is really adding a roof to a runway on a rotor on a hitched trailer, and DE asks whether Kanajashi doesn't like fun. W4sted and DE ponder foldable roof designs and blinking lights while they quickly manually dig up Magnesium. Capac flies around scouting and spots a CLG faction Landing Pad - seems the human bots are building planes.

(3:00) Splisie removes a cool looking antenna dish that Capac accidentally placed in the way of the rotating runway and compliments the new "Zero days since last accident" sign. Steve the Rock cannot be turned into ingots because he is already a refined gentlestone who eats "Gammon Bert". They remove an O2/H2 Generator that may have been interferring with the wheels. When driving, the runway on the trailer starts rotating and needs to be locked. They reach the riverbed as it's getting dark--they made it 11km as the bird flies. They notice since Splitsie scaled down the planet to a moon, it now has an abundance of resources everywhere. W4sted shares an Oroborus-like experience with long trailers and the subgrid control script. The target planet looms on the horizon.

Capac and DE approach a damaged NPC base in front of them while the turrets suddenly engage a mysterious plane behind them. Capac finds the crashed plane in the dark. It's a epic hotrod car with wings, darkgray with a purple stripe... DE and Capac hang on to the plane while Splitsie takes it on a test flight. Tex quickmindedly switches off the base gatlings and w4sted rotates the runway for their approach and increases the runway lights. Splitsie evades rifle fire from human bots on the ground and Capac falls down and eliminates the bots. Splitsie manages a flawless landing, 360 no scope, on the ground behind the runway. Splitsie tries another runway landing and flies the "wrong way up", too close to the NPC Observer base. They pivot to use the plane as decoy but crash before they can do a kamikaze attack. Chat votes in a survey to eliminate the base from the Jalopy.

(3:30) They lose two turrets and succeed in destroying the base. In the rubble they find a dead body who holds a medkit, a hitchhiker's guide, and towel. ;-) Chat hopes that Captain Shack will join next week and teach the others how to fly. W4sted has built a rotating spotlight seat and Tex lit up the runway. They make more progress now but W4sted is skeptical about multiple people landing on a mobile runway. Everyone should just get their personal trailer and runway: Capac's will have a sombrero, Splitsie's will be built out of pistons, DE's will be purple, and Tex' will be blinding...

Next week: Actual planes!

## References

1. ↑ Emissive Colors - Red / Green Color Vision Deficiency
2. ↑ Marek Rosa, the creator of Space Engineers
3. ↑ JexsamX' signature colours