The Persistence
The Persistence: Death is Just the Beginning...
The Persistence is a colony ship that suffers a ‘spark gap event’ during a jump, landing it in the inexorable pull of a black hole, wreaking havoc on the ship and corrupting the Clone Printer, which is now creating mutated copies of your ex-shipmates. These clone-printed monstrosities, constantly replenished by the ship’s malfunctioning clone printer, are the only thing standing between Zimri and her mission to restore the ship’s functionality. If an encounter with these foes proves fatal, Zimri’s consciousness is uploaded into a new host body, ready to try again.
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The colony starship has a self-configuring macrostructure which can alter its layout – and due to the catastrophic malfunction, that’s exactly what will happen. Upon awakening in a new cloned body or on teleporting between decks, the layout of the starship will change each time. Every expedition into The Persistence will be unique, with different creatures, items, and gear to collect and upgrade.
You are the last survivor. Your mission? Restore functionality to The Persistence and somehow make your way back to Earth...
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The Persistence: Ship and Technology
The Eon-class colonisation vessel The Persistence is a self-configuring macrostructure imprinted inside the asteroid 19-Fortuna, a 200-km wide rock from the solar asteroid belt. Operating with a flight crew of seven personnel, the ship is designed for a maximum capacity of 780 settlers, to be clone-printed from the engram reservoir upon arrival at the intended destination.
Making the journey with the smallest possible active crew is more resource efficient, and reduces psychological and political risks: deep space travel requires a particularly robust psyche. The ship is equipped with the latest singularity drive technology, and capable of making unprecedented 40 light year jumps. The previous generation of singularity drives capped out at about 20 light minutes (taking four jumps to cross from Earth to Titan, at a typical flight time of four weeks). These new drives use dark matter power feeds to extend the range of each jump by several orders of magnitude.
The Persistence was headed towards Kepler Object of Interest 4742.0, at a distance of 1,291.6 light-years away from Earth. The exoplanet Kepler-442b Lyrus was the intended destination, owing to an advance survey mission having already established the potential for terraforming. 32 jumps were planned. On the thirteenth, however, a malfunction in the magnetic bottle containing the ship’s micro-singularity caused a ‘spark gap’ event, inexorably drawing the ship through a space-time fissure and into the gravity well of a black hole, believed to be the V4641 microquasar, 1,600 light-years from Earth.
No ship has ever been known to survive a ‘spark gap’ event. Damage caused by the incident has destroyed key elements of the engram reservoir, disrupted the self-configuration functionality of the ship (causing the decks to intermittently reconfigure), corrupted one of the two clone printers, fried the sensor array, and put the singularity drive offline.
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THE PERSISTENCE COMING SOON TO STEAM
Everyone’s Dead… Even You.
The Persistence is set aboard a colony ship that suffers a ‘spark gap event’ during a jump, landing it in the inexorable pull of a black hole, wreaking havoc on the craft and corrupting the Clone Printer, which is now creating mutated copies of your ex-shipmates.
You are the last survivor. Your mission? Restore functionality to The Persistence and somehow make your way back to Earth.
We’re really excited to bring "The Persistence" to Steam and we’ve optimized the game with UI & controls tailored for non-VR alongside VR headset support for Oculus Rift, Oculus Rift S, HTC Vive and WMR headsets.
Coming to Steam in 2020. Add us to your wishlist!