Summary
I don’t' know about you, but when I playThe Sims, I love to go to the park and kidnap strangers so I can shove them in my basement and observe them. Don’t put me on a list, please. But I’ve never thought to do that inNo Man’s Skywith the poor alien travellers we run across. Cue tullia, the Reddit user who ‘accidentally’ kidnappeda poor little Gek.
“I didn’t mean to trap a Gek. It just happened,” they posted. “So I found a nice planet and a nice settlement and I built nearby bases so I could build on and around the settlement. The planet has floating islands and I built a sky bridge to a floating island from the settlement.
Fortunately, the Gek staged a prison break in just three in-game days. He’s clearly been in this predicament before.
“At the base of the ladder up to the sky bridge, there’s a glass box room. A Gek Wandered into it. He can’t figure out how to get out. He goes to the window-walls and stares out mournfully. He finally came up the few steps to the door. He stood there. He turned around. He walked to the back of the room and mashed his face into the ladder. It looks like his eyeballs are stuck in the ladder now. I’m a terrible overseer.”
Luckily, the Gek got out pretty fast, and OP had enough of a heart not to torture them. But the comments aren’t nearly as kind. One of the first comments asked tullia to fill the prison with water or even scorpions, while others suggested using waterwithscorpions in it.
Others even showed ways that they had trapped and kept Gek as pets. These are intelligent, sentient creatures capable of space travel, not dogs. It’s incredibly inhumane (ingeke?).
Others suggested using him to farm Gek, eating him, or just using him as bait. Please don’t eat the Gek, they have feelings too.
No Man’s Sky
WHERE TO PLAY
Lose yourself in a vast sci-fi odyssey as you explore a near-infinite, procedurally generated universe.
Set out from the edge of the Euclid galaxy and carve out your own interstellar existence in a vast universe teeming with life, danger and near-endless mystery.
No Man’s Sky is a hugely-ambitious, heavily-stylised, sci-fi adventure that spans entire galaxies all brought to life with procedural generation. Travel through an endless array of increasingly diverse and dangerous star systems, prospecting for rare materials, trading with alien life, populate planets and searching for clues to the meaning of the universe’s mysterious existence.
How you survive is up to you. Assemble entire fleets of dreadnought-class freighters and tear across the universe; build sprawling habitable bases across planet surfaces, beneath the ground or under the ocean; buy and upgrade your own weapons and star ships and do battle with outlaw space pirates, hostile alien fauna or the mysterious sentinel fleets.
The universe is yours to explore - trillions upon trillions of planets, waiting to be discovered.
