infocom/hints/solutions/starcross.step2

                              STARCROSS (Infocom)
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(You begin in your bed aboard your space ship) GET OUT OF BUNK, GET TAPE,
E, PRESS RED (the alarm is silenced), E, GET LINE AND SUIT, W, READ SCREEN,
SIT DOWN, FASTEN BELT (order the computer by going, COMPUTER,RANGE IS x,osv),
COMPUTER, CONFIRMED, WAIT (10 times. The ship is captured by the foreign
vessel), UNFASTEN BELT, STAND UP, OPEN DOOR, S, CLOSE INNER DOOR, WEAR SUIT,
OPEN OUTER DOOR, U, PUSH FOURTH BUMP, PUSH TINY BUMP (a black rod slides
out), GET ROD ('Red Airlock' is opened), U, CLOSE OUTER, REMOVE SUIT (the
air is fine), OPEN INNER, U, W, N, N, W, LOOK AT PROJECTOR THROUGH BLACK
(you see a clear rod), GET CLEAR, E, S, S, OPEN INNER DOOR, D, CLOSE INNER
DOOR, OPEN OUTER DOOR, D, S, S, GIVE TAPE TO SPIDER (you receive a yellow
rod in return), GET YELLOW, N, N, U, CLOSE OUTER DOOR, OPEN INNER DOOR,
U, S, W, GET GUN, LOOK IN GUN (you find a silver rod), GET SILVER, E, N,
N, E, N, E, THROW GUN AT NEST (the ants run away. The nest shatters and
the red rod is free), GET RED AND GUN, W, S, W, S, U, S, OPEN HATCH, D (you
are in an engine room, of sorts), INSERT YELLOW ROD IN YELLOW SLOT ('Yellow
Hall' will be lit when you turn on the computer), INSERT RED RED IN SECOND
RED SLOT (the sign represents oxygen! The air is renewed), GET SQUARE, U,
N, D, E, N, N, E, E, S, OPEN PANEL, INSERT SQUARE IN SLOT, TURN ON POWER
(the computer is switched on. A gold rod falls out), GET GOLD, N, E, S,
S, OPEN INNER, D, PUT GOLD IN BASKET (a new pocket is opened in the basket),
PUT CLEAR AND SILVER IN BASKET, GET BASKET, CLOSE INNER DOOR, WEAR SUIT,
OPEN OUTER DOOR (it is stuck), AGAIN, D, TIE LINE TO SUIT, TIE LINE TO HOOK,
W (using the line you stay with the ship), GET PINK, E, UNTIE LINE, U, CLOSE
OUTER DOOR, REMOVE SUIT, OPEN INNER DOOR, U, S, S, E, GET RED DISK AND BLUE
DISK, DROP RED DISK, PUT BLUE DISK UNDER GLOBE, PUT GUN ON GLOBE, TURN DIAL
TO 4 (the gun falls through the globe, pulls the blue along and materializes
on the red disk via the blue one - _complex_!!!), TURN DIAL TO 2, PUT PINK
ROD AND BLACK ROD IN BASKET, GET ALL, W, N, E, N, N, U, DROP GUN, D (around
now you should meet the mouse. When that happens: ) DROP RED DISK (the mouse
picks it up), FOLLOW MOUSE (till it disappears through a hole), DROP BLUE
DISK, WAIT, STAND ON IT (you wind up in 'Garage', where the mouse dumps
its trash), GET RED DISK, SEARCH TRASH, AGAIN, AGAIN (you find a green rod),
GET GREEN, N, E, N, E (you are in the middle of a village. Everybody is
staring at you), E, WAIT (the chief enters. He wants your space suit), GIVE
SUIT TO CHIEF, POINT AT BROWN (reluctantly he hands it to you), FOLLOW CHIEF
(through the village till you reach 'Green Airlock'), D, CLOSE INNER DOOR,
OPEN OUTER DOOR, D, W, W, N, MOVE SKELETON (a violet rod falls out), GET
VIOLET, S, E, E, DROP RED DISK, STAND ON IT (back in the garage), N, W,
N, N, U, GET GUN, S, S, W, U, U (at the top of the tree there is no gravity),
JUMP (you land on 'Drive Bubble'), INSERT SILVER ROD IN SLOT (the door opens),
IN, PUT BROWN IN BASKET, GET WHITE ROD, INSERT IT IN SLOT, OUT, U, JUMP,
FIRE GUN AT DRIVE BUBBLE (the recoil sends you towards 'Control Bubble'),
AGAIN, AGAIN (you land on the bubble), D, INSERT GOLD ROD IN SLOT (the hatch
slides open), IN, INSERT CLEAR ROD IN SLOT (5 new slots appear), INSERT
BROWN ROD IN BROWN SLOT, INSERT BLUE ROD IN BLUE SLOT, INSERT PINK ROD IN
PINK SLOT, INSERT GREEN ROD IN GREEN SLOT, INSERT VIOLET ROD IN VIOLET SLOT
(the five rods form an image of the nearest part of space), PRESS LARGE
SQUARE (now it shows the solar system), PRESS BROWN SPOT, AGAIN, AGAIN,
AGAIN (Earth is highlighted), PRESS VIOLET SPOT, AGAIN, AGAIN (a line is
formed from the ship to Earth, where it ends in an ellipse - ie., an orbit!),
PRESS GREEN SPOT, AGAIN (the line is formed by quickly flashing dots), PRESS
BLUE SPOT (Finally - you're headed for Earth! This ranks you as 'Galactic
Overlord')


RODS: White - in 'Drive Bubble'
      Red - in 'Nesting Cage'
      Yellow - by the spider
      Black - in 'Red Dock'
      Silver - in the gun
      Clear - in the projector in 'Observatory'
      Gold - in the computer
      Pink - in the alien's hand by 'Yellow Dome'
      Green - in the trash in 'Garage'
      Brown - around the chief's neck in 'Village'
      Violet - in the skeleton lying in the space ship in 'Green Dock'
      Blue - in 'Laboratory' inside the globe
                                                            

Jacob Gunness - May 1989