STADIUS Mission

STCTF Lunar Base

**STADIUS** (also known as **Epilogue**) is the seventh mission in the Golden Phantom Series. After defeating The World Builder at The Cogworks, the Space Time Continuum Task Force (STCTF) warped away to an ominous looking Time Gate on a lunar planet somewhere in The Multiverse. The team uncover the destroyed remnants of a lunar base belonging to a past generation of STCTF operators and kickstart the last surviving Time Gate on base to get back to their own timeline.

## Synopsis

### Background

Once the STCTF operators initiated their retreat during the collapse of The Cogworks, they returned to a Time Gate conjured by The Orb upon its arrival. Unaware of what time and place the gate was linked to, the operators took a leap of faith and used it to exit the imploding world. Although the team left in a standard STCTF Time Gate, they arrived on a barren lunar planet through a large decaying gate with charged electricity almost frozen in space surrounding it.

The team was able to maintain life support functions due to the respirator modules of their first generation Space Warp Suits (SWS). The respirators were not 100% efficient in oxygen recycling, so a theoretical time limit was imposed to find a way back to their own timeline.

### Lunar Base Contact

After travelling a short distance from the strange Time Gate, operator SWSs began picking up weak signals from an STCTF small comms relay located on the cliffside of the large mountain they were exploring. This relay led them to the first portion of the STCTF Lunar Base which was in complete ruins (seemingly due to a conflict against a large army of sorts).

As the World Builder had been defeated, the Minutemen seemed to have lost organization and were mindlessly warping and attacking the operators as they saw them—contrary to their sometimes passive behaviour during the events of Carpe Noctem. Fighting through the droves of Minutemen, the team discover the destroyed ruins of a series of Time Gates. They later find a damaged communications station and a data center where the operators were able to successfully download encrypted data from the past STCTF generation that once used the base. The data was stored in their SWSs and required the processing power of the whole team's suits to decrypt the data in the background.

### Time Gate Exfil

The team reached the second portion of the base where a large destroyed radar station rested as well as a series of interconnected hubs housing one last Time Gate chamber. While still under contact by straggling Minutemen, the team was able to successfully redirect power from the dying base core to make one last warp out of the base. The team fended off the gate and it finally jumped, leaving the unknown base to remain empty for the remained of time.

## Trivia

* It is suggested by uncovered logs that some of the old STCTF operators were warped unwillingly to the Cogworks where they were doomed to die, while the rest of the operators were left on the Lunar Base to defend against some unknown threat (suspected to be Minutemen).
* It is also revealed that all but four surviving operators on base who didn't enter an Epochogenic comatose were physically ripped from this timeline through rifts that were said to "appear from thin air, snatch their victim, and close without a trace".
* The Stadius crater on earth's moon was named after Flemish astronomer and mathematician, Johannes Stadius, and is likely where the old STCTF generation chose their base name from. However, the planet that houses the lunar base does not seem to be characteristically similar to earth's moon at all.