Anyone here used to watch the Mission: Impossible series? More than in the movies, they often had those episodes where they'd craft a whole prank just to trick the target into giving up information.
So here's the plan: we capture David Braben in his sleep, he wakes up in what looks like some post-apocalyptic underground bunker and is fed some phony story by a fellow cave dweller about how that's it, space aliens have attacked and Humanity has gone into hiding. As expected, he starts saying something to the tune of "Hey that's funny, i used to create stories with space aliens in them!". Slowly but surely, the team steers him into talking about that old story that will never see its conclusion, and in a cathartic moment he reveals what Raxxla was, where it was and how to reach it. As he turns to his interlocutor, he realizes he's now alone in the room. After a long hesitation he finally ventures past the "warning: radiation hazard beyond this point" door, and finally understands he was in some abandoned warehouse in the countryside. End credits.
I volunteer for being the guy with the cool mask-making briefcase.
/saturday night sh*tpost
