No Man's Sky | Diary of an Inter-Galactic Traveller - 001 - Who, where, why?

🌌Dear Diary,

      I don't know who I am, where I am or why I'm here.

   About an hour ago, I grew conscious, finding myself on an icy planet, with my suit's supplies dwindling. Without hazard protection and life support, I was going to die very quickly on this frozen landscape, so those were my first priorities.

     My suit told me I needed to find oxygen and sodium, but not before fixing my scanner - it was close, but I managed to find ferrite (thank the powers that be my laser still had some charge in it!), repair my scanner and find sodium just as my suit's hazard protection dropped to zero. The sodium replenished the protection systems and bought me some time.

     Next was oxygen, which I found in strange, bulbous plants, which thankfully seem to be plentiful on this planet. My life support systems will have a relatively constant supply.

   As soon as my suit felt I was safe, it informed me that my ship's location had been located... I have a ship!

     So I set off immediately in it's direction, hoping I'd find enough sodium and oxygen plants on the way to keep me alive. The distance was not as far as I'd first imagined, but getting there, I quickly realised my ship was badly damaged. I set about fixing the hull immediately...

    My ship gave me all the instructions I needed, and even helped me construct/locate the necessary components.

     Long story short, I'm still not done fixing my ship... After repairing the hull in two places, I discovered the boost thrusters are also damaged.

    So I still have that to do, but now there's a storm so I'm sheltering inside the ship, which is where I found this inter-dimensional log book - also damaged, so I'm only able to hijack the log of some humanoid creature from some far-flung, primitive galaxy, apparently called "Mandelsage".

Sorry, Mandelsage. I had to store these records somewhere! I don't know who or why I am, after all. You understand, right?

   For now, I'm going to wait out this storm. Then, I'll repair my thrusters, find fuel somewhere, and get off this planet to see what there is to be seen.

     I did see a building of some sort before finding my ship, and also received knowledge of an alien word from a strange black monolith that lit up when I touched it...

     Not to mention the glowing red orb that appeared in the vessel not for from my ship! Such a strange feeling... Like it was aware, and aware of my presence...

     So I'm definitely not alone.

     And as annoyed as I am about this stupid situation, I also can't help looking forward to discovering what's out there...