HACKING INTO EREBUS
is a terminal-driven cyberpunk hacking thriller where you jack into a ship's network, manipulate ARIA under constant surveillance and unearth the secrets they'd kill to keep buried. Every system is a target. Every command leaves a trace. Extract what you need, complete your missions and claw your way toward the truth before it's too late.
Every System Is Wired
The ISS Erebus is a living, breathing network. Power grids, life support, navigation, crew quarters. All tangled together in one exploitable web. Nothing runs independent. Nothing is off-limits. Every command you send ripples through the grid and every ripple can be traced back to you.
An Arsenal Built From the System Itself
Keyloggers, signal jammers, memory corruptors, power rerouters. The Erebus's own infrastructure becomes your weapon against it. Every tool interacts with the ship's systems in a different way. Learn what breaks what, exploit every backdoor and remember: The network doesn't forgive mistakes.
The Ship Is Watching Back
Something is hiding aboard the Erebus. The crew will fight to keep you out. Distract them. Mislead them. Sabotage their systems to create openings by using your code skills through terminal. Infiltrate deeper.
Compartment Zero
Every lead, every stolen file, every cracked system points to the same place. A section of the ship with no records. And yet it's there. What's locked inside Compartment Zero will rewrite everything you thought you knew. What you do with it once you're in is entirely up to you.
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Storyline
A hacker hired by Meridian Corp is tasked with investigating a distress signal from the USS Erebus, a deep-space research vessel stranded on a distant alien planet.
The ship's operating system VERONICA, is concealing a classified organism hidden inside Compartment Zero, the result of a secret experiment conducted by the ship's biologist. Meanwhile the crew remain alive, preserved in cryogenic sleep.
The player never physically boards the ship. Instead, they remotely operate a maintenance robot deployed from the ship's cloning pod, using it to explore the vessel, repair critical systems and uncover what really happened aboard the Erebus.
The ship is rapidly deteriorating. Electrical failures, fires, radiation leaks, toxic atmosphere and extreme cold threaten both the vessel and its sleeping crew. Throughout the mission, the player can communicate with VERONICA through the ship's terminal network, gradually exposing the truth behind the disaster.
The objective is to restore the USS Erebus before it becomes beyond saving whether from the creature hidden within, catastrophic system failures or the deaths of its crew. Once the ship is operational again, the player must escape the planet and begin the long journey back to Earth.
