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STARCROSS
  Part 1
 Is it Earth approach time already?  No, that's the alarm bell
ringing!  Now what?  Time to get up and see what's up on board
the Starship STARCROSS.  Up and at 'em and don't forget that
tape library.  Go starboard and push the red button to turn off
the bell.  Push the blue button and go starboard.  Get the suit
and safety line then back port to the control panel.
 Ah, peace!  Since you can hear yourself think again, sit down
and fasten your seatbelt.  Let's see what the hullabaloo's
about.  Read the screen.  So that's it, a mass is out
there...maybe it's another black hole or asteroid, or who knows!
 Look up the mass's location on your starchart and key the
coordinates into your onboard computer as follows:
 TELL COMPUTER "RANGE IS xxx"
 TELL COMPUTER "PHI IS xxx"
 TELL COMPUTER "THETA IS xxx"
 After several seconds of blinking lights, the computer should
say the coordinates have been fed into the navigation prograam
and it's waiting for confirmation.  Tell the computer
"confirmed" and wn.  Good thing your
seatbelt was secured or you would've bounced all over the cabin!
 Now you're on your way to the mass.  So you'll have to keep
typing in LOOK or WAIT until the STARCROSS is held firmly by the
grappling hooks of the....
 Alien Artifact?!?  My stars, what have you gotten us into?
Well, too late to worry about that now.  May as well have a look
around.  So unfasten your belt and stand up.
 Open the inner door and exit.  Close the inner door and put
your suit on. (In space, no one will hear you explode if you
come into contact with vacuum!)  Open the outer door and go
outside.  Your first problem stares you in the face. An alien
sculpture beckons you.  This is actually the red airlock's
welcome mat.  But before it will allow you entrance, you have to
tell it where you're from.  Upon closer examination, you see
it's really just a bas-relief of the solar system.  So push the
fourth bump (which represents Earth).  The whole sculpture
recedes except for one hexagon. Push it and a black rod is
thrust forth.  Take the rod and voila!  The airlock opens!
 Enter the airlock and close the outer door.  Remove your suit
and open the inner door.  The air is breathable...for a while,
that is.  We're off to collect rods to repair the systems that
have failedand stalled the Artifact in space.  The black rod is
not one of the required rods, so drop it here and head out.
 You're in a long red hall with side corridors.  In the
Artifact, the standard directions can replace the fore, aft,
starboard and port directions, so if you'd prefer using north,
south, east and west, feel free!
 First, we're going to repair the air supply.  So go fore,
starboard four times, fore and starboard.  You're in some sort
of Intergalactic Zoo and there's a nest of creatures that look
like a cross between rats and ants! Ferocious little beggars
aren't they?  Look closely at their nest and you'll see a red
rod has been used as part of the structure.  Trying to just take
it isn't notably helpful since these little critters nip at you
everytime you try. So the only way to get the rod is to destroy
their nest and divert their attention.  Throw the tape player at
the nest.  The rat-ants go into furious activity repairing your
handiwork!  While they're busy, get the rod and your tape
library back.  Now go port, aft, port, and aft.  There's a blue
airlock here.  So open the airlock and go down.  Now close the
inner door and open the outer door.  There's an umbilical
connecting the blue airlock to a series of bubbles.  Go aft to
the bubbles and another umbilical connects the bubbles to a ship
grappled just like yours is!  Go aft to the ship and look!
There's a multi-eyed creature staring at you.  It looks like a
spider, but don't worry, it's friendly and certainly very
lonely.  Wonder what would pek it up?  Say, turn your tape
library on and play it.  Well, well, well, look at that guy!
He's all ears!  Give the spider the tape library and, in
gratitude, he gives you a yellow rod!  Nice guy!  Take the rod,
bid farewell to your new-found friend and hed back fore to the
blue airlock.  Enter the airlock, close the outer door, open the
inner door and go up twice.
  Part 2
 We're now going to repair the lighting and air supply aboard
the Artifact. You're standing inside the Inner Region of the
Artifact.  Evdently, the aliens recreated an ecosystem which
sheltered a race of weasels and their food supply...Unicorns!
But you haven't got time to explain to the weasel hunting party
that unicorns are extinct.  If you don't fix the air supply,
more animals will become extinct...including you!  So go aft and
you see a covered hatch.  Open the hatch and go down.  You're
now in the Repair Room. Get the metal and ceramic square you see
lying here then take a look around.  My goodness look at all
those slots!  What goes here?  Well, logical deduction tells
you that you should put the yellow rod in the yellow slot.  Do
so.  Now about those red slots:  There are three of them and
depending on what sort of gas you're used to breathing (the
aliens thought of everything!) wil ou
choose to put the red rod in.  The dots are representations of
gases, and if you look very carefully, you'll see the second
slot's dots represent oxygen.  So put the red rod in the second
slot.  You hear hidden machinery hum to life! Nice going!  Okay,
back up and fore then down back to the blue airlock area.
 Now, go aft and port.  You've found the Weapons Deck and
there's a strange looking raygun laying here.  Get the gun and
look inside.  Aha! A silver rod!  Get the silver rod and keep
the gun.  Go bck starboard, aft, port, and fore.  You're in the
yellow airlock area.  Open the inner door and enter the airlock.
 Now close the inner door, put your space suit on and open the
outer door.  Hmmm, it's a bit tight, better try opening it
again.  Oomph! Finally!  Okay, go outside and attach your safety
line to the suit and the hook you find here.  This will keep you
from floating off into space!
 Go port and look!  There's a dead alien here tangled in the
debris and it's clutching a pink rod!  Get the rod and go back
starboard, detach the line from the hook and enter the airlock.
Close the door, remove the suit and get that strange basket you
see here.  It'll help you carry your rods. Insert the pink and
silver rods in the basket, open the inner door and go back up to
the yellow hall.
 Now go aft twice and then starboard.  You've found the
laboratory!  And look at that!  There's a strange silver globe
seemingly floating in mid-air!  If you turn the dial to 1, the
globe shrinks in size revealing a blue rod firml embedded in
the globe!  Very curious!  Turn the dial back to 3 for now.  Get
the red and blue disks you see hanging on the wall here. These
disks are extremely important since they are teleportation
disks! They will help you out of several tight squeezes later
on.  But for now, they are instrumental in acquiring the blue
rod.
 Drop one of the disks on the floor and put the other one under
the silver globe.  It doesn't matter which disk you use where
since they both have the same properties.  Now place the basket
on top of the globe.  Let's see now, turning the dial to 1 made
the disk smaller, so turning it to 4 should make it larger,
right?  Right!  So turn the dial to 4 and...gracious! The globe
expands to a point where it is resting on the floor (and,
consequently, the disk!).  When the globe touches the disk
that's under it, the basket disappears from the top of the globe
and reappears on the other disk! Amazing!  Better yet, though,
the basket now contains the blue rod!  Turn the dial back to 3
and retrieve both of the disks, your basket and all the rods.
 Now head port and go fore four times, then port and aft.
You've located the Computer Room and it's awfully quiet in here.
 Let's see if we can get the old girl humming again!
 Open the access panel and yu see one of the cards is missing.
The metal and ceramic square you're carrying would probably fill
the gap!  So insert the square, close the panel and turn the
switch on.  Shoooom!  The computer comes to life with a
bewildering blinking of lights and gauges.  They won't mean much
to an alien (you!), so don't bother trying to decipher them.
The object of this lesson, though, is in an output hopper...a
gold rod!  Get the rod and insert it in your basket.  We're off
to locate a janitor and a chief!
  Part 3
 Go fore out of the Computer Room then go starboard and start
heading aft until you see the mechanical maintenance "mouse."
When you do find it, drop one of the disks and do an occassional
"examine receptacle" until you see the disk you dropped in its
receptacle.  Then head aft until you get to the farthest aft
yellow hall.  From there go port twice then fore twice and
starboard twice.
 You are now in the Village Center of the Weasel's Warren.  If
the Weasel Chief isn't here, wait until he arrives.  He will
start pointing at your spacesuit.  When he does, give it to him.
 He will be very grateful and offer you his wives and children,
but don't accept them.  Instead do as he did and point to the
brown rod he has hanging around his neck!  When he gives you the
ll leave.  But don't lose him!  Follow him
everywhere he goes.  If he stops and is just standing there, do
a "look" and he'll take off again.  But whatever you do, don't
give up following him!
 Eventually, he'll lead you to the Center of the Warren and the
entrance to a green airlock, then he'll sit down and patiently
await your return.  So go down to the airlock, and close the
inner door.  Open the outer door and exit into the umbilical
that's connecting the airlock to yet another alien spacecraft
moored port of here.  Inside, you find yourself in a cargo hold.
Get the visor you see lying here then go fore to the Control
Room.  Shhhh! An alien commander's skeleton reposes here in
eternal sleep.  You seem to have discovered some sort of altar,
for scattered bout are fruits and vegetables.  Move the
skeleton and something falls to the ground.  It's a violet rod!
Get the rod and insert it in your basket.  Now you can also
insert the brown rod in the basket.  You didn't have a chance to
do so before because you were so involved following the chief!
Now drop the other disk you have and step on it.  You're
instantly transported to....
 Say...where the heck are we?  Looks like some sort of garage or
something. And look over there...a garbage dumpster filled to
overlowing with trash! Let's go do some trash searching and see
what we come up with.  Hmmm, there's our other teleportation
disk.  Further digging reveals all sorts of junk, but finally
you find a green rod!  Get the green rod, insert it in your
basket and le's get out of here.  There's only one exit so go
fore and you're in a room on Ring Four.  Go port twice, fore
twice, starboard, fore and port.  You've found the Observatory!
What a strange projection! Use the visor to look inside the
projector and you see  crystal clear rod there!  Get the rod
and insert it in your basket, drop the visor and go starboard.
 Time to get the artifact re-programmed and moving again!  Go
aft twice then up to the Inner Region.  Go aft twice then
starboard.  You're at the base of a very tall tree and it's
climbable.  So go up the tree twice to the top.  Gravity is very
light up here and you can see, within jumping distance, a silver
slot next to a door leading into a Drive Bubble.  So jump and
insert the silver rod into the silver slot.  Glory be!  The door
opens and you scamper inside.  There, floating in the
weightlessness of this place is a white rod.  Get the white rod
and insert it into the white slot.  Now exit the Drive Bubble
and go up on the Drive Bubble.  On the other sideof the Inner
Region you can see the Control Bubble.  But how to get there?
Well, let's jump to get started in that direction.  Now if we
just had a propellent of some sort.  Ah...the raygun!  Fire the
raygun in the direction of the Drive Bubble three times and
you're propelled toward the Control Bubble.  After the third
blast, you find yourself clinging to the handholes on the
Control Bubble.  So go down and insert the gold rod into the
gold slot and enter the Control Bubble.
 This is it, the very heart of the Artifact.  Looking around all
you see is a crystal clear slot.  Insert the crystal rod and
long-dead machinery hums to life and reveals five different
colored slots...blue, green, violet, brown and pink!  Insert
your remaining rods in their correspondingly colored slots.  As
you do so, spots of the same color appear next to each slot.
These spots are the trajectory, speed, course and map controls.
First press the large pink square until you see the inner solar
system from the Sun to Jupiter.  Now press he brown spot until
you see Earth displayed.  Select the speed of the Artifact by
pressing the green spot until you see a slowly flashing series
of dots.  Finally, set the orbital course to a circular one by
pressing the violet spot.  Now we're ready to start the Artifact
heading toward Earth.  Press the blue spot to start the age-old
engines and look.  You're heading toward Earth in a slow, grand
trajectory!  As you approach Earth and slowly slide into
permanent planetal orbit, the viewscreen comes to lifes the Aliens who built the Artifact.  His congratulations
and warmth pour from the speakers and all Earth rejoices with
the return of the Galactic Overlord!
 STARCROSS is copyrighted by
    Infocom, Inc., 1984.
 This walkthru is copyrighted
    by Barbara Baser, 1985.
     All Rights Reserved.
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