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Varkem Fighter (Book)

**Varkem Fighter** is a lore book that tells about the Varkem Fighter. This book can be found in the Spaceport.

Written by Chief Designer Corpare

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**VARKEM FORCES**

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*SCHEMATIC*

*SPECIFICATION*

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Varkem Fighter

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The Varkem Fighter is a small spacecraft, seating only one pilot. Its dart-shape was designed for speed, maneuverability and aerodynamics, easily being faster than anything from the *Celestial's* armada.

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In combination with its light weight it has a very high acceleration, easily enabling it to reach speeds of over ten thousand kilometres per hour.

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It is also armed with as many phaser cannons that can fit on its front, enabling this ship to pack a punch that can easily destroy Aerial Assault Drones and split Celestipedes in two.
Angry Birds Winter Wonderland

The **Angry Birds Winter Wonderland** was a worldwide campaign competition and collaboration that made its debut in December 2011. During that time period, Samsung worked with Rovio to use Angry Birds to promote their new Samsung Galaxy Note smartphone device. The site was located here, but it has been closed.

The site included a playable Angry Birds level, an animated video, "Season's Tweetings E-cards" and a new game, the "Angry Birds Advent Challenge," and a competition from Samsung.

## Site Description

"Would you like to have a "Chirpy" Christmas with all the best Samsung technology in your hands? Yes? Welcome to the wonderful wintery world of the Samsung Angry Birds Christmas Nest!

Here you will find all your favourite Angry Birds characters playing in a world and in a way that you have never seen before. Yes, that's right, a brand new Angry Birds Advent Challenge which will get you "chirping" with delight and send your high scores "soaring" to the top of the tree.

And its been created just for you as a special Christmas bonus.

You will also be able to send your favourite Angry Birds "frequent flyers" a super special Christmas "Tweeting" that will have them "owling" with laughter! "

## Playable Level

The playable level on the Winter Wonderland page was a customized Angry Birds level that included "Samsung Galaxy" in the clouds on the level background and had Samsung Galaxy Note icons throughout the level. When the competition ended, the level was moved to level 1-5 of the Season's Greedings episode of Angry Birds Chrome and can still be played there. There is also background music playing. \*HINT: The red present is worth 10,000 points!\*

## Season's Tweetings E-cards

Three e-cards were available for site visitors to send to friends and family. This feature is no longer available.

## Angry Birds Advent Challenge

A new game was offered on the site called the Angry Birds Advent Challenge. The gameplay was very similar to that of the popular "Bejeweled" game, but using Angry Birds, Bad Piggies and Samsung Galaxy Notes as the images to match. This game was not offered anywhere else after the Winter Wonderland site closed. Go to Angry Birds Chrome.

## Angry Birds Winter Wonderland Animation

The site included a video called "Take Note Pigs" and is still linked on the site disclaimer after the campaign ended.

## Trivia

* The music featured in the game is the Wreck the Halls theme song.
List of Species

The following page contains a list of every species encountered in Celestial Protocol. They are sorted in order of first appearance.

## List

* Human
	+ Notable human characters: Lucas, Narelle, the player.
* Alien
	+ Notable alien characters: Captain Kelrig.
* Drone
	+ Notable drone characters: Celestipede, Heavy Worker Drone.
Drone Brain

The **Drone Brain** is a large drone and the mini-boss of the second wave of the Experimental Lab.

## Design

The Drone Brain has a similar shape to an Enlarged Drone Head, but its eye sticks out and it has several orange coils going around the outside of the drone.

## Boss Fight

Like the Assembler Drone Mini, the Drone Brain moves around the outside of the arena in a circle, moving faster as it loses more health.

It can spawn "fake" clones of itself that moves in a different direction to it. The real one may continue moving in the same direction in the circle or in the opposite direction while the fake one goes in the other direction.

* Below 75% health, it spawns in one clone of itself.
* Below 50% health, both the real and fake Drone Brains spawn in another clone, totalling 3 fake clone in total.

Only the real Drone Brain can be hit. The Drone Brain clones have 100% damage resistance.

The Drone Brain has the following attacks:

* The real Drone Brain faces to the direct centre of the arena and fires a continuous beam for a few seconds.
* The Drone Brains fire spreads of shots in the direction of the closest player.
* The Drone Brains shoot some exploding drone heads straight up that then take aim at a random player or attackable entity and fly towards them (they do not home in, they only take aim when reaching their highest point).
* A multitude of flying drone heads spawns around the outer edges of the arena, which will fly towards the centre, cross through, and go back out to the outer edge.

The Drone Brain boasts high projectile and blast protection as well as high resistance to the Beam of Light, Extreme Beam, Electric Burst and Orange Phaser Turret Staff. Melee weapons will deal the most damage to the Drone Brain.

## Strategy

Melee weapons are the best for the Drone Brain. A heavy weapon such as the Broken Cannon or Celestipede on a Stick is extremely viable since due to its high speed and variety of attacks, you may not get many opportunities to hit it up close.

Ranged weapons such as the Plasma Rapid Blaster can deal a tiny bit of damage, but it will take a long time to take down in exclusively this manner. Also, remember the real Drone Brain flashes red upon taking damage, while the fake ones don’t, so even a ranged weapon can be useful for discerning which one is real.
Exploder Drone Arm

The **Exploder Drone Arm** is a weapon that can be obtained in Chapters 1, 2 and 3.

### Obtaining

It has a 1.25% chance of dropping from an Exploder Drone. Its initial durability ranges from 82 to 165.

### Usage

Like the Drone Arm, the Exploder Drone Arm is a spam weapon with no attack cooldown. However, it is the only item that uses up durability, and when it is used up, an explosion will occur that may kill you.

### Tips

* If you get an Exploder Drone Arm, it might not hurt to use it as it is easily the strongest melee weapon you can obtain in Chapter 1, though you do have to be mindful of its durability due to the explosion at the end (or… not. There’s no penalty to death in this map after all…). It might be best if you save it for the beginning of Chapter 2 so you can deal with the stronger drones then, and when you unlock better weapons later in Chapter 2 you won’t need it anymore.
Bad Piggies Build

**Bad Piggies Build** (also called **Angry Birds Build**) is a cancelled webgame meant to release in 2012 by Rovio Entertainment, however, this game was never mentioned or announced by the company and was left in mystery until a SWF download  was found on the Appspot link. This game was planned to be a successor to the also cancelled *Angry Birds Social*.

## Gameplay

The game consisted of creating your own Angry Birds levels as well as playing other people’s levels and sharing them online.

There was also a story mode of sorts, with you creating different structures to defend the pigs. This was also how you unlocked new blocks.

## Trivia

* Unlike other cancelled games and just like it’s precessor, this game was never announced nor confirmed by Rovio, instead it was found in early 2021 via an Appspot link by the Angry Birds community alongside its predecessor Angry Birds Social.
* This was the second glimpse of an Angry Birds level creator before Angry Birds: Isle of Pigs was created with the first being it’s predecessor.

## References

1. ↑ https://twitter.com/angry\_facts/status/1377300283294879751
2. ↑ http://head-dot-angrybirds-build.appspot.com/20121109-0003/public/flash/AngryBirdsBuildAndShareCanvas.swf
3. ↑ https://twitter.com/angry\_facts/status/1377300287099179012
Celestial Protocol Wiki

**Welcome to the Celestial Protocol Wiki!**

*They question whether they are truly alone in this universe.*

*But one thing that they have never considered…*

*Is what they should do... should they discover that they are not alone.*

*Or what those that come from the stars would do to humanity.*

Celestial Protocol is a Minecraft 1.19.3 sci-fi adventure map created by Cavinator1. The map is playable in vanilla and multiplayer Minecraft Java Edition. It had been in development for over four years and was released on 22nd November 2022.

If you wish to contribute read up on the rules.

## The Map

Celestial Protocol
Log 131

**Log 131** is a Hyso's book where he discusses how his plan to capture the Celestial and escape Jamie, Lucas, and Narelle went. This book can be found in Hyso's room.

Written by Hyso

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Log 131

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Honestly I wasn’t 100% sure if the computer virus beam would work, but in truth I should never have had anything to worry about. Celron computer systems haven’t ever been the most secure, they’re easy to hack.

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With that in mind, I could have tried to hack every drone on the ship and shut them all down then hacked all the cryo pods, let everyone out, then got them all to ships for them to escape in.

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But there’s no way that would have gone unnoticed. I needed the *Celestial’*s fusion engines to be destroyed so it would remain stuck in orbit around Desolend.

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Given time, Captain Kelrig’s worker drones would have repaired the damage, which was why the tractor beam was used to hold the *Celestial* in place and prevent it from leaving even if the fusion engines did get repaired.

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It is fortunate that the rest of the pieces of the plan fell into place. The lives of the humans who I got to destroy the fusion engines weren’t necessarily important from a tactical standpoint, but from my point of view, every life counts.

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Hence why I sent remotely-controlled shuttles to pick them all up. Jamie and Lucas had to deal with an Assembler Drone on the way out as well as the loss of Carl. Narelle’s escape, on the other hand, was surprisingly easy, perhaps too easy.

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I should keep an eye on her.

## Trivia

* This is the only lore book written by Hyso.

* From this book, we understand that Hyso never trusted Narelle
Beam of Light

The **Beam of Light** is a weapon that has a chance to drop from the Assembler Drone on death.

### Usage

The Beam of Light functions similar to the Laser Drill in terms of being able to fire a beam when used. However, the Beam of Light fires a well, beam of light, that has a shorter range but does more damage. It can also only fire one beam per second unlike the Laser Drill.

### Tips

The Beam of Light, unlike the Laser Drill, is a generally better damage dealer instead of only being good at destroying glass. If used right, it can be useful against a large group of drones.
Animals, Inc (My Style) V4

## Cast:

* Sulley - Francis (Oliver and Company)
* Mike Wazowski - Tito (Oliver and Company)
* Boo - Rita (BrainPOP)
* Boo (Monster as Disguised) - Marie (The Aristocats)
* Randall Boggs - Nigel (Rio)
* Mr. Waternoose - Kai (Kung Fu Panda 3)
* Celia Mae - Georgette (Oliver and Company)
* Roz - Princess Luna (My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic)
* Needleman and Smitty - Chuck and Bomb (The Angry Birds Movie)
* Mrs. Flint - Starlight Glimmer (My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic)
Celron Armor

## Celron Armor Full

The **Celron** **Armor** is an armor set in Celestial Protocol, worn by member of the Celrons and by the player when the Celestial Defense section almost starts and until the end of this map.

## Obtaining

Unlike Varkem Space Armor, this armor cannot be crafted. This armor will be given to you before the start of the Celestial Defense section.

## Celron Battle Helmet

### Lore

Comes equipped with an advanced heads-up display

* This is the best armor in the map.

## Celron Battle Armor

### Lore

 The big orange light on your chest is your mouth
Laser Drill

The **Laser Drill** is a weapon/tool that is obtained in Chapter 1. It is unlocked after crafting the Metal Sword and can be crafted in a Matter Manipulator.

### Usage

While holding the Laser Drill, a laser can be fired by holding down the right mouse button. The laser has a range of 5 blocks and can deal 1 damage repeatedly to any enemy touching the laser. The laser can also destroy highlighted glass and objects.

### Crafting

A Laser Drill can be crafted using 4 Metal, 1 Metal Grip, 1 Laser Cell and 1 Laser Barrel.
Log 446

**Log 446** is a Utgy's book where he talks about the skills of Jamie, Lucas and Narelle. This book can be found in Utgy's room.

Written by General Utgy

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After I brought Jamie and Lucas back to the compound, I took them to the Training Building to teach them about some of the tech we’ve been using in combat against the aliens.

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I was expecting them both to be hardened soldiers by this point, as they’d both single-handedly managed to destroy a Fusion Engine on the *Celestial* and then escape, all without much of a scratch.

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However, I was disappointed when it turned out that Lucas was a total klutz! Seriously, how did the kid even live long enough to not freeze to death in the Snow Bioctagon?

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Truthfully I didn’t think Jamie was hugely impressive either, but I told them they were, perhaps so that Lucas would take inspiration from them and shape up himself.

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Now Narelle, she is easily the most skilled out of the three of them. After we brought her back from the Crystalline Craters and I took her through the same training session, she mastered everything with ease.

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I told Hyso all about her skills, though he felt a bit suspicious about her. He said that he believes that she is a spy for the aliens, which would explain her extreme proficiency of basically everything.

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I’m not sure how much I believe in his theory. What human in their right mind would want to betray their own race, eh? Still, I’ve secretly put a listening device into her armor, so if she does try anything, I’ll know, and I’ll be there to blast her!
Magnetic Levitron

The **Magnetic Levitron** is a utility tool that is used to life and move Power Blocks and very occassionally other movable blocks.

### Crafting

A Magnetic Levitron can be crafted using 4 Varkem Metal, 1 Varkem Grip and 3 Levitry Magnets.

### Usage

Right-click while holding and aiming at a movable block and you will pick it up and can levitate it and move it anywhere. Right-click again to turn off the levitron and drop the block.

If the block currently being held gets pushed out of range by a wall or the player starts holding somethime else, the levitron automatically turns off.
Log 55

Log 55 is a Manager Mike's book where they discuss about the power of The Mind and how it behaves. This book can be found in the underground laboratory on the first floor.

Written by Manager Mike

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*Four months ago.*

A few people among us have questioned how safe the Mind is, given the… *incidents*, that we have had and catalogued down here.

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The Mind is capable of generating a seemingly infinite amount of power, but if you know anything about Zesteron’s theory of relativity, you know that energy can only be created from converting matter. E=MCC and all that.

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Yet, at a glance, the Mind doesn’t seem to do any of that at all. It’s not like we heft giant blocks of stone up to its maw and feed it every single day.

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But then my egghead friend closely analysed the physics and the science and everything going on around the Mind and the strange incidents, and came to the conclusion that the Mind is drawing energy from another dimension.

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Or another universe.

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Even he wasn’t sure, all he could tell me for sure was that the Mind was getting energy from somewhere that was *not here*.
Orange Phaser Turret Staff

The **Orange Phaser Turret Staff** is a rare summon weapon that can spawn in an Orange Phaser Turret to damage enemies. It can be obtained as one of multiple weapons dropped after defeating the Celestipede.

### Usage

When used, the Orange Phaser Turret Staff spawns in an Orange Phaser Turret. This Orange Phaser Turret behaves similar to a Phaser Turret, but targets enemies instead of players, and also has a higher fire rate and more damage.
Speed Drone

The **Speed Drone** is a small and very fast drone.

## Design

The Speed Drone has a head similar to that of an Electric Drone and Repair Drone with a blue eye, 2 white tubes on both sides of the head and 2 small arms.

## Appearances

The Speed Drone first appear in Training Time when Utgy spawns them in to train Lucas and the player. They then spawn relatively commonly throughout the rest of the map.

## Behaviour

The Speed Drone moves very fast and deals average melee damage.

## Strategy

* Use your Energy Shield to block their hits, land a hit on the drone and repeat. They can be difficult to hit though due to their small size.
Human

The **Human** species is a sentient species native to the planet Earth.

## Characteristics

Humans are recognisable by having an upright stance with two arms, two legs, a torso, a neck and a head. Humans are often (hopefully always) seen wearing clothes. Humans breathe oxygen, meaning on other planets or in space they need to wear specialised space suits to survive.

## Characters

* The Player

* Lucas

* Narelle

* Hyso

* General Utgy

* more

## Trivia

* In real life, humans are much stranger than they are in Celestial Protocol.
Log 26

**Log 26** is a Manager Mike's book where he explains how they found The Mind. This book can be found right in front of the entrance to the underground laboratory.

Written by Manager Mike

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*Six months ago.*

The story of how we found the Mind is quite an interesting one. The planet of Desolend is filled with quite a lot of metal and other minerals.

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Leader Hyso tasked us with excavating all this out so we could build up our compound and our fleet.

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And by chance, we discovered this immense cavern with this strange creature housed inside. My first instinct was to run screaming back up to the surface.

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But then my buddy noticed the huge amounts of energy spiking off of it. Energy that we figured out how to harness. It now powers everything in the Varkem Compound.
Freeze Ray

The **Freeze Ray** is a ranged weapon that can be crafted in Chapter 1. Its recipe is unlocked after entering the Fusion Engines.

### Usage

The Freeze Ray behaves like a crossbow instead of a bow, being able to be loaded and fired separately. Its shots inflict victims with Slowness V, greatly decreasing their movement speed.

### Crafting

A Freeze Ray can be crafted using 3 Metal, 1 Metal Grip, 1 Laser Cell and 2 Laser Barrels.

### Tips

The Freeze Ray is not exactly essential, but can be useful as it can be loaded outside of battle and fired instantly to stun an enemy while in battle.
Magnetic Repulsor

The **Magnetic Repulsor** is a powerful Celron-tier weapon that sports a slam ability like the Shockwave Gauntlet, essentially being an upgrade to it. Its recipe is unlocked at the beginning of Chapter 4, at the same time as every other Celron-tier weapon.

### Crafting

A Magnetic Repulsor can be crafted using the same materials as the Shockwave Gauntlet but with Celron materials, that is, 6 Celron Metal and 2 Celron Energy Cores.

### Usage

Like the Shockwave Gauntlet, the Magnetic Repulsor can be used like a melee weapon, sporting high attack damage but low attack speed. But, it also has the unique ability that when used, the player will jump up into the air and land with a powerful slam, damaging and weakening all nearby enemies.
Mind Spiderling

**WARNING: THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS SPOILERS THAT MAY SPOIL YOUR ENJOYMENT OF THE MAP.**

## Mind Spiderling

### Drops

1 Varkem Metal (30%}

**Mind Spiderlings** are small purple Mind creatures that resemble cave spiders from the base game.

## Appearance

Mind Spiderlings are small purple spiders with bright pink stripes on their legs and pinkish eyes

## Behaviour

Like cave spiders, they crawl to the player and bite them, inflicting Poison.

## Strategy

Like for Mind Grubs, the Frost Thrower is a solid option for taking down many of these.
Worker Drone

The **Worker Drone** is a drone that commonly appears in most of Chapter 1 in Celestial Protocol. It is the first enemy that the player faces in the map.

## Design

Worker Drones consist of a single head and two drone arms, which emit white smoke to hover above the ground. Every drone has either a blue or orange eye, but this is only a visual difference.

'Bulky' Worker Drones wear a Metal Chestplate. They have more health and knockback resistance, and drop more Drone Parts upon being defeated.

'Glass' Worker Drones have two glass tubes extending downwards on the back of their head. These have higher movement speed and attack damage. They can drop Glass Shards along with their usual drops.

## Behaviour

Worker Drones behave like regular melee mobs, hovering towards the player on sight and hitting them with their arms.

Worker Drones can also be hacked using an Electric Hacking Gauntlet. Hacked Worker Drones behave similar to tamed wolves, helping the player attack enemies. They have the ability to activate identification slots by standing next to them. They can also get killed.

## Notes

Worker Drones have a stronger variant called the Heavy Worker Drone, which appears as a mini-boss throughout Chapter 1 of the map.
Log 154

**Log 154** is a Private Sully's book where he describes what happened when he was with Utgy and others headed out on the extraction mission. This book can be found in the Private Sully's room in Personnel Quarters on the second floor.

Written by Private Sully

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Today General Utgy, Corporal Hydroix, and I headed out on the extraction mission of Jamie and Lucas, two of the humans that Leader Hyso woke up onboard the *Celestial* to destroy its fusion engines.

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We headed out on foot, but our invisible satellite network picked up that a ship from the *Celestial* carrying drones was headed straight for them.

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We probably would have reached them first, but then Corporal Hydroix fell into some quicksand in the black sand flat we passed through.

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Luckily they managed to craft their own space suits and escape the drones, because we ran into them about halfway there right as an ice storm whipped up.

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Utgy managed to save them from getting crushed by the overhang they were taking shelter in, then put up a force field for proper protection against the ice.

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We then headed back to the compound, safe and sound. All in all, a successful mission, though I didn’t get to blast any drones.
Fusion Detonator

The **Fusion Detonator** is a device that when is used to detonate placed Fusion Charges. Its recipe is unlocked after hacking all four identification slots in the Fusion Engines.

### Usage

When the Fusion Detonator is used (right-clicked on), the nearest Fusion Charge explodes.

However, in the Fusion Engines, the Fusion Detonator cannot be used yet when crafted. It can only be used when the player has crafted an Oxygen Mask, Magnetic Boots, placed Fusion Charges on all the highlighted blocks and headed to a safe place to protect themselves from the explosion. When used in the Fusion Engines, it detonates all the Fusion Charges in the engine and blows it up.

### Crafting

A Fusion Detonator can be crafted using 4 Metal, 4 Electric Cells and 1 Wireless Transmitter.
Drone Fusion Launcher

The **Drone Fusion Launcher** is a ranged artillery weapon that has a 2% chance of dropping from Experimental Drone R-0C4.

### Usage

When used, the Drone Fusion Launcher shoots a slow-moving purple projectile that explodes on impact. It has a 1 second cooldown between uses.

### Tips

* The Drone Fusion Launcher is an explosive weapon of the same strength as the Aerial Missile Launcher that can be fired much faster. However, its shots move relatively slowly compared to other projectile-weapons, meaning it can be difficult attacking mobs at long range or judging when to stop firing.
Plasma Rapid Blaster

The **Plasma Rapid Blaster** is the basic Varkem-tier ranged weapon, equipped by members of the Varkem Forces. Its recipe is unlocked after finishing Utgy's training session in Training Time.

### Usage

Rapid blasters are a special type of ranged weapon, where they can be constantly fired by spamming right click. However, its damage output is relatively low compared to other slower weapons.

### Crafting

A Plasma Rapid Blaster can be crafted using 2 Varkem Metal, 1 Varkem Grip, 1 Varkem Barrel and 1 Varkem Energy Core.

### Tips

When you unlock the Varkem Energy Blade and Plasma Rapid Blaster, it is recommended to craft the Plasma Rapid Blaster first. It can be difficult to fight the final boss of Chapter 2 without it. A free Varkem Energy Core can be found in one of the Storage Compartments on level 2 of the Main Operations Building (though it requires either Jump-Pads or Rocket Boots to access).
General Utgy

**General Utgy** is a general in the Varkem Forces, the resistance against the alien threat. He is in charge of training the player for battle and in tactics to use against the alien drones.

## Characterisation

Like many hardened soldiers, Utgy won’t take no for an answer and will rage hard if you fail in his training, but he is also a superb fighter and you will be glad to have him on your side.

## Quotes

* (From the second teaser trailer) "Listen here recruits! If you’re going to help us fight the aliens, you’ll need to know how to fight. You’ll need to know how to use all the alien weaponry and tech we’ve salvaged."

## Trivia

* Utgy first appeared in the second teaser trailer, where he stated that recruits would 'need to know how to use all the alien weaponry and tech we've salvaged'. Like Hyso, his name was not yet known, but his name was revealed later in a tweet on July 10th, 2020.
* Utgy appears to have a red cybernetic eye and something covering his right arm which may be a prosthetic limb.
Pigstep Subwoofer

The **Pigstep Subwoofer** is a powerful weapon that can damage, slow and weaken enemies with the powerful sound waves of Pigstep. It is one of the five weapons that can be dropped by The Mind on defeat.

### Usage

On use, the Pigstep Subwoofer creates a large sound wave and sends it straight forward, damaging all enemies within range. When hitting a wall, the sound wave will bounce right off it and continue going straight.
Force Field Drones (Book)

**Force Field Drones** is a lore book that tells about the Force Field Drones. This book can be found in the Space Deck

Written by Captain Kelrig

## Contents

***INFORMATION LOG***

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Force Field Drones

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The Force Field Drone is a modified Ranged Drone with the ability to generate a temporary force field around itself that prevents it from being attacked at a range.

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The exact science behind force fields is complicated, but basically it is an array of energy particles that disintegrate fast-moving projectiles that are shot into it.

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The particles have a certain frequency, and if this frequency is mimicked by a projectile then the particles will ignore that projectile. This is how the Force Field Drone can still shoot from within its field - by using the same frequency as its field.

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The Force Field Drone also transmits its frequency to other drones nearby so they can use the same frequency, hence enabling their shots to pass through its field too, giving all drones the ability to use force fields for cover.

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Mind Stinger

**WARNING: THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS SPOILERS THAT MAY SPOIL YOUR ENJOYMENT OF THE MAP.**

## Mind Stinger

### Abilities

Shoots poisonous projectiles (Large only)

### Drops

**Large:**
0-1 Varkem Metal
0-1 Varkem Energy Cell
1 Deuterium Cell (12.5%)
1 Tritium Cell (12.5%)
1 Healing Cell (2.5%)
1 Timer (1.25%)
**Small:**
1 Varkem Metal (30%)

**Mind Stingers** are flying purple Mind creatures that resemble bees from the base game.

## Appearance

Mind Stingers resemble Bees but instead have a purple skin and white eyes. They can come in two different sizes

## Behaviour

Mind Stingers fly to the player and sting them, inflicting Poison. Unlike bees, they can sting multiple times.

Large Mind Stingers can also shoot projectiles that create a poison cloud upon impact of a player or block.

## Strategy

The Cosmic Commando Phaser can be used to take out individual Mind Stingers easily. Though for larger groups of them, the Subspace Rapid Blaster or Frost Thrower can be used.
Chapter 2

**Chapter 2** is the second chapter of Celestial Protocol where you need to get to the Varkem base with Lucas and then save Narelle at the Crystalline Craters

## List of Sections

The Crashed Ship

The Uncharted Planet

The Varkem Compound

Training Time

The Encounter

Crystalline Craters

## Trivia

* This is the shortest Chapter in Celestial Protocol
Aerial Missile Launcher

The **Aerial Missile Launcher** is a rare ranged weapon that has a chance to drop from the Aerial Assault Drone in the Crystalline Craters on defeat.

### Usage

When the Aerial Missile Launcher is used, an Assault Missile is shot out of it, travelling straight forward for 1 second. After that one second, it will then start homing in on the nearest enemy, exploding on impact with them. It has a 1.5 second cooldown between uses.

### Tips

If you get your hands on an Aerial Missile Launcher, it can prove to be the most helpful weapon for the next few parts of the map, as you can just spam the launcher in one place and watch it kill every other existing enemy. You do have to be careful about using it though as if an enemy is in close quarters when you fire it its missile will instantly explode and probably kill you.
Matter Switchblade

The **Matter Switchblade** is a Celron-tier endgame melee weapon, essentially being the upgraded variant of a Varkem Switchblade, sporting a speed boost matching that of the Speed Drone Arm. Its recipe is unlocked in the beginning of Chapter 4, at the same time as every other Celron-tier weapon.

## Matter Switchblade

### Abilities

No  Attack CooldownGain +40% Movement Speed for 5 seconds upon striking an enemy

## Crafting

A Matter Switchblade can be crafted using the same resourses as Varkem Switchblade, but with Celron materials, which is 2 Celron Metal, 1 Celron Grip and 1 Celron Energy Core.

## Tips

If you prefer a spam weapon, then the Matter Switchblade would be an ideal pick as your melee weapon. If not, it would still be a good weapon to have crafted in case you need to quickly retreat from enemies.
Pusher Drone

The **Pusher Drone** is a powerful ranged drone that replaces Ranged Drones from Chapter 3 onwards.

## Design

Like Combat Drones, they are fully armored in metal armor. They also have upgraded blasters that can blast players further away.

## Behaviour

Like Ranged Drones, Pusher Drones shoot at the player at a range. However, the shots deal slightly more damage and push the player far away, hence the drone's name.

'Bulky' Pusher Drones have more health and have Projectile Protection on their armor, making them harder to take down with a ranged weapon.

'Glass' Ranged Drones move faster and have the ability to levitate into the air when a player gets close enough.

## Strategy

* Explosive weapons can be used on Bulky Pusher Drones to quickly deal with them at a distance.
* It is a good idea to also deal with Glass Pusher Drones at a distance as well to prevent them from levitating. If you are faced with one at close range, however, an Extreme Beam or some well-placed shots from a Plasma Rapid Blaster can help.
Experimental Drone C-177

**Experimental Drone C-177** is a drone and the weaker form of Experimental Drone C-117.

## Design

Experimental Drone C-177 resembles a Blue Glass Ranged Drone, with the difference being that its head is noticeably brighter.

## Appearances

Experimental Drone C-177 appears rarely throughout Chapters 2 and 3 of the map.

## Behaviour

Experimental Drone C-177 has the same illusion ability as Experimental Drone C-177. However, it does not spawn immobile illusions or inflict blindness when reaching certain amounts of health.
Frost Thrower

The **Frost Thrower** is a Celron-tier weapon that functions similar to the Absolute Zero but has some notable differences. Its recipe is unlocked in the beginning of Chapter 4, at the same time as every other Celron-tier weapon.

### Crafting

A Frost Thrower can be crafted using 3 Celron Metal, 1 Celron Grip and 2 Celron Energy Cores.

### Usage

The Frost Thrower functions pretty similarly to the Absolute Zero, sporting the same damage and speed. However, instead of emitting a beam that can destroy certain blocks, it instead shoots strong frost flames that have shorter range than the beam but much larger area.
Hopping Drone Head

The **Hopping Drone Head** is a drone imperfection that only spawns in the Experimental Lab.

## Design

The Hopping Drone Head is, well you guessed it, the head of a Drone that hops. The head appears to be that of a blue-eyed drone.

## Appearances

Hopping Drone Heads spawn in relatively big numbers during Wave 2 in the Experimental Lab. Big Hopping Drone Heads only spawn when an Enlarged Drone Head gets destroyed.

## Behaviour

Hopping Drone Heads slowly jump towards the player, dealing either little or no damage upon contact.

When a big Hopping Drone Head gets destroyed, it splits into 2-4 small Hopping Drone Heads.

# Enlarged Drone Head

The **Enlarged Drone Head** is a massive Hopping Drone Head.

## Behaviour

Enlarged Drone Heads behave just like Hopping Drone Heads, except they take bigger jumps and deal more damage.

They split into 2-4 big Hopping Drone Heads when destroyed.
Mind Grub

**Mind Grubs** are small purple Mind creatures from Chapter 4 that resemble silverfish from the base game.

## Appearance

Mind Grubs have the same appearance has silverfish but they have a purple body, white eyes and a white tail.

## Behaviour

Mind Grubs slither to the player and attack them, dealing less than average damage. They spawn in huge numbers, though.

## Strategy

The Frost Thrower is generally the best weapon for dealing with them, as they not only can damage multiple of them at once, but also set them on cryo-fire.
Battle Drone

Battle Drones are large, hulking drones.

## Design

Battle Drones resemble Iron Golems from the base game. They have one blue eye and a light gray body.

## Behaviour

If the player chooses to shoot Captain Kelrig in the Celestial's bridge, Battle Drones will spawn as enemies in the Spire. They will attack allied Varkem Soldiers and will also attack the player if they attack them.

If the player chooses to shoot General Utgy in the Celestial's bridge, and throughout Chapter 4, Battle Drones will be your main ally against the Varkem Soldiers.

Battle Drones attack their target by throwing them into the air, dealing heavy damage.
Sweeping Laser Turret

### Abilities

Right click to summon a Sweeping Laser Turret that shoots sweeping lasers at enemies
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### Lore

When set to its lowest power mode,
it is great for keeping your cats occupied

The **Sweeping Laser Turret** is a powerful summon weapon which, when used, can shoot sweeping lasers at enemies. It is one of the four weapons that can be droppped by Colonel Spanner on defeat.

## Usage

When used, a Sweeping Laser Turret will be placed on the ground. The turret aims at an enemy before firing a laser that sweeps towards them, dealing heavy damage. After 3 seconds, the turret stops firing and repositions.

Using the Sweeping Laser Turret item again will move the Sweeping Laser Turret to your current location.

## Tips

The Sweeping Laser Turret can be used in many situations, such as when an enemy or boss is standing still and the turret attacks, doing extra damage. You can also use the turret simply as extra damage.
Boss Fight

**Boss Fight**s are fights that occur at the end of every mission, which are commonly against either strong enemies or large structures. Usually, the section ends once the boss is defeated, but sometimes there are sections that come afterwards. Some examples of this are Hyso Fight

When a boss fight begins, a bold title with the text "Boss Fight" might appear, along with a subtitle displaying the name of the boss you are fighting. Has a cyan title and aqua subtitle

## Chapter 1

Heavy Worker Drone

Experimental Drone C-117

Assembler Drone

## Chapter 2

Experimental Drone C-210

Aerial Assault Drone

## Chapter 3

Celestipede

General Utgy (If you chose the side of Celrons in The Central Spire)

Narelle (If you chose the side of Varkem Forces in The Central Spire)

## Chapter 4

The Mind

Colonel Spanner

Lieutenants Dundoo and Lunloo (If you choose to fight Narelle back in The Central Spire)

Sergeant Marys (If you choose to fight Utgy back in The Central Spire)

Lucas (If you chose the side of Varkem Forces)

Captain Kelrig (If you chose the side of Varkem Forces)

Leader Hyso (if you choose the side of Celrons)

## Final Boss

Supreme Celestipede (if you choose the side of Varkem Forces)

Mech Horizon (if you choose the side of Celrons)

## Trivia

* There are 16 boss fights in total. 10 if you choose the side of Celrons and 13 if you choose the side of the Varkem Forces
Celestial Protocol

*"Humanity… so unaware of what is out there."*

**Celestial Protocol** is a sci-fi adventure map by Cavinator1.

## Gameplay

**Celestial Protocol** is a PVE Adventure map. It consists of gameplay.

## Plot

*Humanity… so unaware of what is out there.*

*They question whether they are truly alone in this universe.*

*But one thing that they have never considered…*

*Is what they should do... should they discover that they are not alone.*

*Or what those that come from the stars would do to humanity.*

*Celestial Protocol* will deliver a unique, imaginative story. It revolves around the *Celestial*, an alien spaceship the size of a city, which has abducted you and several others from your ordinary lives on Earth. When faced in this situation, your only hope of survival against whatever the aliens have in store for you is to fight back, so you can go home, to Planet Earth.

## Cast

* Cyber\_Tooth\_Tiger as Male Player.
* HBear21 as Female Player.
* abrightmoore as Leader Hyso.
* CrazyCowMM as General Utgy.
* sixfootblue as Lucas.
* Light Shadow as Narelle.
* Innominate as Captain Kelrig.
* Many others, since there is 'over 25 different fully voice-acted characters'.

## Development

*Celestial Protocol*'s development began shortly after the release of Assassin of Steve 3 in early 2018. It kept going slowly ever since, finally being finished 4 years after development started.

Two teaser trailers had been uploaded to YouTube as well as several teaser screenshots and other information on both Twitter and Discord. The first teaser trailer introduced the then-unnamed character Captain Kelrig speaking some expository dialogue as well as a little bit of gameplay. The second teaser trailer introduced the Varkem Forces as well as Leader Hyso and General Utgy, and it also revealed the Celestipede. The release trailer was premiered 10 minutes before the map was released.

This was Cavinator1's first map where he created the Planet Minecraft page before the map's actual release, which was released on July 27th 2020.

## Release and Updates

Version 1.0 was released on 22 November 2022.

Version 1.1 was released on 8 December 2022, fixing some small bugs and updating the map to 1.19.3,

Version 1.1.1 was released on 9 January 2023, fixing some minor bugs and making several aspects of the map more user-friendly and less confusing.

## Reception

Before its release, *Celestial Protocol* had already gained quite a bit of traction, with lots of hype from the fandom generated from the Assassin of Steve maps, among other sources.

Both teaser trailers generated a fair amount of interest around the map, the second one especially, largely due to the impressive mechanics of the Celestipede. A post on the r/minecraft subreddit showing a short clip of the Celestipede in action from the trailer gained over 10,000 upvotes.

The first day the map's Planet Minecraft page was released, it got views, hearts and diamonds paralleling many of the Assassin of Steve maps over a couple of years.

Today *Celestial Protocol* has over 9000 downloads across all sites.
Drone Parts

**Drone Parts** is an item that can be commonly obtained in Chapter 1. It drops from nearly every drone in Chapter 1 and some drones at the beginning of Chapter 2.

## Usage

Drone Parts can be manipulated into Metal or Protein Matter using a Matter Manipulator. 6 Drone Parts can also be combined with 3 Laser Cells to form a Laser Barrel, or combined with 1 Fusion Cell and 1 Wireless Receiver to form a Fusion Charge.
Varkem Mech

**Varkem Mechs** are giant robots that spawn uncommonly on the hangar of the Singularity.

## Design

Varkem Mechs are equipped with Varkem Space Armor, but have a unique helmet.

## Appearances

Three Varkem Mechs spawn on the hangar of the Singularity, each having different abilities. They have to be slain to proceed.

## Behaviour

The first Varkem Mech stands stationary in the center of the arena, facing the player. It alternates between two attacks:

* Both of the mech's arms emanate a sweeping laser.
* It spawns a red sky laser that moves after the player, dealing heavy damage to the player and nearby Varkem Soldiers. A red warning indicator appears where the laser is going to be spawned.

The second Varkem Mech strafes around the outside of the arena, moving in a circular motion. It alternates between two attacks:

* Up to 14 warning indicators are placed randomly throughout the arena. Shortly after, rockets will spawn above them, flying straight downwards and exploding upon impact, dealing explosion damage.
* Two large rocket arms launch from the mech, dealing some contact damage to players in their way. Upon impact with the ground, they flash red for a few seconds before exploding, sending exploding shots similar to the ones from the Artillery Cannon flying in all 4 directions.

The third Varkem Mech stays on one of four raised platforms in the arena and unleashes its attacks:

* Both the sweeping laser attack and the rocket volley attack from the first and second mech respectively are used at the same time.
* Both the sky laser attack and the rocket arms attack from the first and second mech respectively are used at the same time.

Once both attacks are used, the mech teleports to another one of the four platforms and repeats the attacks.

## Strategy

* The Varkem Mechs are, for the most part, not too difficult to deal with. Rapid Blasters and the Cosmic Commando Phaser can take them down quickly in combination with the Celestipede’s attacks. They are immune to the Big Brain, Orbs and the Sweeping Laser Turret, however the Sky Laser Beacon will deal damage to it.
* Melee weapons can also be used on the first one, though you will need to be wary of its attacks, especially the sky-laser, as that will quickly kill you if you stand in the same general location for too long. The second and third mechs move around, so melee weapons won’t be as effective.

## Notes

* Once a Varkem Mech is defeated, all Varkem Soldiers in the previous sections are killed instantly.
Bonus Boys w/ Josh Gondelman

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## Episode Description

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Fusion Charge

**Fusion Charges** are explosive charges that can be placed on the ground and activate on use of a Fusion Detonator. Its recipe is unlocked after hacking all four identification slots in the Fusion Engines.

### Usage

In the Fusion Engines, Fusion Charges can only be placed on the highlighted blocks. However, from the Exploder Hallways onwards, Fusion Charges can be placed anywhere on the ground.

They can be activated by a Fusion Detonator, causing them to explode and deal high damage to any entity in range. Fusion Charges can also destroy cracked blocks in the Exploder Hallways and the Assembler Drone's plating in Phase 2.

### Crafting

Fusion Charges can be crafted using 1 Fusion Cell, 1 Drone Parts and 1 Wireless Receiver, which yields two fusion charges. After Training Time, a Combat Drone Parts is required instead of a Drone Parts. You can also get them from Exploder Drones with 16% of dropping