@Bucky
Here's your damn update. About a week early too.
Within Dreams
Genre: Science Fiction/Horror
Underlying Theme: Dreams, and how they can easily turn into nightmares when we're not looking.
Setting and Plot Synopsis:
The setting is the spaceship the Priestess in the year 2087. The Priestess was sent to colonize a planet, Motia-451, that would take ten light years to reach. As such, everyone on the ship was placed in cryogenic sleep to speed up the process, with the crew operating in 'shifts' every six months; for one half year this set would maintain the ship, the next another, so on and so forth. The player is an engineer that had just finished their shift and was placed in cryogenic sleep for the last stretch of the trip.
The next time they wake up the ship is in utter chaos. Motians, the native species of Motia-451, swarmed the ship once it landed on Motia-451. They take the form of the typical 'Gray' aliens, albeit much more intimidating in terms of height and build. The protagonist must make their way through the ship's various areas to achieve their goal. They can either choose to focus on escaping (with or without the rest of the ship's surviving crew) or defeating the Motians and taking the ship back.
Escaping would focus on the protagonist making it through the ship's various areas to reach the escape pods that are still operating. They will start in the cryogenic chambers within Sickbay, going through the barracks, the research lab, the engines, and finally reaching the hangar in that order. They can choose to rescue crew members if they want to.
Taking the ship back would involve journeying through the ship in that same order, but instead focusing on wiping out all the Motians on the ship. The protagonist can still choose to rescue crew members who will then fight alongside them.
The finer details are hidden, because I don't wanna spoil anything.
Main Characters:
Jun Yuen - The protagonist. Gender is selectable. Mid thirties. An engineer aboard the Priestess, recently awoken from cryogenic sleep to find the ship in ruins. Surprisingly calm and collected in the face of this threat, and prone to making wry remarks about their situation.
Plato - Basically speaking, your mission control and guide. Seemingly male. Unknown age. Contacts the player after they've woken up and guides them through sickbay. Very enigmatic, but you'll have to wait for the story to come out before you can uncover the truth about him.
Captain Diego Becker - First rescueable crew member. Male. Early fifties. The captain of the Priestess, who was awake the whole ten years the ship was traveling to Motia-451. Formal, military type, even in these dire circumstances. Seems shady but there's no proof that he's done something wrong. Keep an eye on him.
Dr. Gabriella Fontana - Second rescueable crew member. Female. Early forties. Chief science officer of the Priestess, also awake the whole ten years. Brilliant, but stuck up, especially when interacting with Yuen (due to their background as an engineer). More noticeably terrified than Yuen or Becker, but still capable of snootiness during rare moments of calm. Doesn't seem particularly shady.
Grigori Yakovlev - Third rescueable crew member. Male. Mid forties. Head of engineering, the third and final member of the crew kept awake during the ten year trip. Stern, no bullshit attitude. Not terrified of the situation like Fontana or desensitized to the situation like Yuen and Becker, but rather just hopeless; he feels there's nothing that can be done and is waiting to be killed. Due to his personality, he doesn't hide a damn thing from anyone and tells it like it is.
There are more side characters that don't do anything interesting. They're just red shirts to be rescued and brought along with you or used as cannon fodder against the Motians.