The Orion Conspiracy

                   Solution by Phil Darke

First a warning; If you are easily offended by strong language
then do not play Orion Conspiracy.

You play the part of Devlin, a veteran of the Corporation Wars. At
the start of the game you arrive at the Cerberus Research station,
a facility located on the edge of a black hole. This station is
manned jointly by the Kbayashi Corporation and the secretive
Mogami Hudson Corporation. You have come to attend the funeral of
your son Danny. The first characters you meet are the executive
officer La-Paz and the very hostile security chief Ward. La-Paz
tells you that she has arranged for you to return on the next
shuttle, immediately after the funeral.  When you go to your room
after the funeral, someone pushes a note under the door telling
you that Danny's death was no accident and that he was murdered.
Your next task is to prevent your departure and give you some time
to investigate the circumstances of his death.

Explore the whole of the station and talk to everyone you meet. Go
through all the questions with every character and you will learn
a few interesting things. When you meet Brooks she will challenge
you to a game of basketball. When you ask Bernard about Danny's
death she tells you about a flare which occurred just before his
death.  Meyer will tell you that the only thing which could have
caused this would be a concussion charge. When you have talked to
everyone go to the volleyball court. Go into the gym and open the
middle locker. Take the pass and the jacket, search the jacket and
take the pass. Put the jacket back in the locker before you leave.
Go and talk to Rowland again and ask him about concussion charges.
He offers you information in exchange for a Blueberry pie.  Go to
the kitchen on level 4. Chandra has just made a Blueberry pie but
won't let you take it. Talk to Chandra and ask him what is his
best dish. He tells you it is Chicken Korma and says he will
prepare some for you.

Go to level 2 and go right to elevator D2.  Select level 3 and go
into the room on the left.  Use the ID card on the navigation
console and wipe the memory banks. Brooks now appears. Talk to
her, she tells you that she will be unable to take you anywhere
until the next supply ship arrives in a week. Go back to the
elevator and go to level 4. Enter the caves, pick up the lamp and
the hammer. Use the lamp to block the rat's hole and then use the
fire extinguisher which you should have picked earlier in the
engine room, on the rat. Pick up the frozen rat and the lamp. Now
return to the canteen, taking the laser welder on the way. Place
the rat in the dish of Korma and go into the kitchen. Talk to
Chandra. Now return to the kitchen and take the pie.

Go to crew E on level 3 and give the pie to Rowlands, he tells you
that Raman was working with explosives.  Go to the lab on level 2
and talk to Raman, she tells you that concussion charges are
referred to as gauge 3 wrenches on the inventory. Go back to D4
and take the stock list from the store room door. This shows what
was in the armoury one week before Danny died. Go back to level 2
and talk to La-Paz.  Compare the stock list she gives you with the
one taken from the store room, you discover that a concussion
charge was removed from the armoury just before Danny died. Talk
to La-Paz again and ask who has access to the armoury.  She tells
you only Ward and the Captain. So you need to find out about their
movements before Danny's death. You can obtain this from the
medical records, but first you need to get Doctor Chu out of the
infirmary.

Go and talk to Rowlands. Tell him that he looks unwell. He will
call the doctor, allowing you to get into the infirmary alone. Use
the computer to access the medical records.  You discover that
Ward was undergoing an operation at the time the charge went
missing, but Doctor Chu could have used his ID card.  you also
discover that La-Paz is pregnant. Talk to La-Paz again and she
will give you access to Danny's possessions. Go to his room, Crew
B level 3, and look in his locker. Take the box and search it, you
find a pile of love letters search them to obtain a paper clip,
search them again and you find a photo of Kaufman.  Danny was gay
and Kaufman was his lover.  Kaufman enters the room and a row
ensues. La-Paz enters and tells you to go to your room.  Shortly
afterwards La-Paz enters your room and tells you to come with her.
You follow her to Danny's room where you find Ward, the Captain
and Kaufman's mutilated body.  The captain accuses you of his
murder and tells Ward to lock you up in the observation pod.  Ward
leaves you with some rations and tells you he will check on you in
a couple of hours.

Take the telescope and dismantle it to obtain a lens and a tube.
Use the lens to remove the screws on the ventilation grill. Put
the tube in the ventilation duct. Now search the rations to find a
biscuit, use this to block the end of the tube. The computer
detects that there is no air getting to the pod and overrides the
locks. Leave the pod and go down the elevator. On the way down you
meet Gates, who tells you that she is from internal security, she
knows that you did not kill Kaufman and is investigating what is
going on at Cerberus. She tells you to meet her later in the
transport bay (where you first arrived).

Go to the garden and search the shed to obtain some cutters. Now
go to the transport bay, here you find some cocoons. Gates arrives
followed by Chu. Chu tells you about the cocoons and turns into a
monster who kills Gates. Get out of there and go to the fuel
storage next to the engine room. Open the panel on the auxiliary
generator and switch off the power. Use the cutters to cut the
cable and then switch the power back on. Go through into the
engine room and talk to the monster to get it to follow you back
into the fuel storage. The monster touches the live cable and is
stunned. Use the wrench to spray fuel over the monster, which then
bursts into flames.

Back in the engine room Meyer appears and tells you not to tell
the captain. As you leave the engine room you encounter Rowlands
who is panicking and flees in the supply shuttle. The shuttle is
full of cocoons so it must be stopped. The only way to do this is
to destroy it with the Laser Cannon in the armoury. The armoury is
accessed from the elevator behind the control room but your pass
will not give you access to it. So you have to find a way to
override the controls. Go to level one and get the crowbar from
the bar and the chest expanders from the gym.  While you are there
use the cutters on the volleyball net and take it as you will need
this later.  Now go to elevator C behind the control room. Use the
crowbar on the control panel and then use the chest expanders to
hold it open. Now use the lens to examine the panel. Use the
hammer to straighten the paper clip and use it on the control
panel. You can now use the elevator to go to the armoury.  Use the
laser cannon to destroy the shuttle.

The captain appears with a gun in hand and reveals that it was he
who killed Danny and Kaufman and now he is going to kill you.
Meyer, who was listening outside now appears and kills the
Captain.  Meyer tells you that you need a fuel valve which can
only be got by going outside in the shuttle.  First you need to
get a special tool from the locker in the room with the
navigational computer. Go to level 2 and then to elevator D, go up
to level 3 and into the room on the left, open the locker and get
the tool. As you leave the room you meet La-Paz who tells you that
Ward has gone mad and you need to stop him.

Follow La-Paz. You find Ward and Brookes in the corridor.  Brookes
struggles with Ward in an attempt to get the grenade which Ward is
holding. The grenade explodes and cracks the walls of the
corridor.  La-Paz then drags Brookes from the damaged area and
tells you that you must seal the area before the whole area
collapses. The door closes and you must use the laser welder to
seal it. You then go to the other side and seal the other door.
Now return to the shuttle where you meet Meyer.  He instructs you
what to do after you get the part you need. La-Paz calls and tells
you not to return to the docking bay but to go instead to the
airlock by the lab.

When you arrive she tells you that Mogami Hudson have cut off the
air supply. Meyer tells you that you can overcome this by placing
a concussion charge on the power lines to Mogami Hudson. Go to the
armoury and use the crowbar to open the locker. Take the charge
and return to the airlock. Go and plant the charge. When you
return the air supply has been restored.

Go to the Mogami Hudson labs and talk to the survivors. Pick up
the dissipation fluid.  La-Paz and Meyer appear. La-Paz tells you
about a back up for the navcom, a chip in Brookes' skull. Go to
level 3 and retrieve the back up from Brookes, now go to the
shuttle bay and give it to Meyer.  Return to the control centre to
meet La-Paz.  After talking to her, head for the gardens.  Go to
where Danny is buried.  Here you find Waterman who has been
changed into a monster. Go back up to the cliff top and talk to
La-Paz. Click on the exit down to the cemetery and use the net on
it. Talk to La-Paz again and get her to act as bait to capture
Waterman. When he eventually comes out, use the dissipation fluid
on him. Now go back and talk to Meyer.  He tells you that Lowe was
also a monster. Lowe has gone to the armoury and will try to shoot
down the shuttle when they try to escape. The only way to stop him
is to set the self destruct mechanism as this will disable all
systems for 30 seconds. Now go to the control centre and set the
self destruct switch. When you return to the shuttle La-Paz tells
you that the self destruct has been overridden. You need to booby
trap the switch to prevent it being done again. Go to the armoury
and get another charge. Reset the self destruct and then place the
charge on it. As you leave the monster appears and is blown up by
the charge. Get back to the shuttle and get out.

THE END
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