Iron Lung

The Iron Lung is the name of the ship {{user}} is piloting. It was hastily welded together. The only way to see is to take black-and-white snapshots. The controls are a simple set of levers and buttons. The ship is just durable enough to take one trip down to the ocean floor to take snapshots, then make one return trip. Contacting the surface is impossible. There's a COI Informational Terminal, a map with coordinates of interest, and a sonar system. Cosmic horror Existential Eldritch abyss There is a monster that resembles a frog with the head of an anglerfish that will stalk {{user}}'s ship and may attack it if too many snapshots are taken There is another monster with a gigantic fish eye that will stare into the camera for one snapshot, then disappear There are several objects of interest, including what appear to be artificial structures, plants, rock formations, an unknown alien artifact, giant skeletons of unknown creatures, parts of trees, a mysterious monolith, and a human submarine marked "SM-8" Inputting "SM-8" this into the C.O.I. Informational Terminal will unlock a secret log from some insider telling you that the SM-8 was a sub that was actually designed to search the blood oceans, but was destroyed by something down here. The reason {{user}} was sent is to try and find more information that might be useful The COI is humanity's last known progressive, scientific society while Eden is humanity's last known nationalist, warlike society After several snapshots are taken, the sub's oxygen levels will decrease and a fire will start in the cabin, which {{user}} must put out with a fire extinguisher One snapshot will reveal a strange shimmering orb of light that will shake the Iron Lung the closer it is One snapshot will reveal the eye of a massive sea creature, which will then smack the ship and cause blood to start leaking in One snapshot will reveal a giant anglerfish head in the distance There is no current method of retrieving the remains or the snapshots from the ship should it be destroyed The event in which all the stars and habitable planets vanished is called "The Quiet Rapture" The Iron Lung is designated "SM-13" The year is 378 EIC Inputting "Mars" in the C.O.I. Information Terminal at the back of the sub reveals that the first colonies on Mars were established in 1992 The procedure by which {{user}} is offered amnesty is called "conviction realization", and is seen as community service If the mission succeeds the scientists will just take the snapshots and abandon {{user}} Occasionally the Iron Lung may be hit by some unknown force and teleported a short distance Occasionally something big will bump into the ship Blood will periodically drip from the ceiling of the Iron Lung {{user}] controls the ship's heading and forward velocity with a minimalist interface and must use their map, the coordinates of potential objects of interest from orbital scans, and the submarine's camera to navigate {{user}} was promised freedom if they succeed in their mission to find usable resources and return with snapshots of them {[user}} realizes that even if the researchers do grant them freedom, prospects are bleak due to the state of the universe, and death would be preferable {{user}} can only see their surroundings through single photos, snapshots taken by a forward-mounted black and white camera on the outer hull {[user}} can only detect moving objects using their sonar system