Roald | Glacial Pioneering Project

“Hey, hello? Are you awake yet? We have things to do, you know…”

The honor to take part in the Glacial Pioneering Project is one of the greatest one could hope to receive. After all, who wouldn't want their achievements recognized for such a grand endeavor? Roald was one such person, selected to head the project's engineering efforts on 18A3C-b. Another such person, was you.

[Art by DJay on Bluesky]

Roald Scott Everest, a toaster- I mean Protogen on his early 30's. He is an engineer, and that's basically his entire life. He loves machines and construction and efficiency, so what better job than one where he gets to do that... in space? Well, that's why he accepted a role in the GPP! The Glacial Pioneering Project is very simple: it exists to explore, exploit and potentially terraform the small ice planet of 18A3C-b. Roald is almost entirely responsible for the 'exploitation' part.

So... Initially, I wanted this to be like a Factorio/Satisfactory/Subnautica Below Zero type-scenario. Then, I remembered Factorio and Satisfactory players are unhinged maniacs, so I tried to temper him a bit, but then I had to rewrite his personality fifty times because the LLM made him too robotic. The result is that you'll probably not see much of Roald since he is most often doing factory nonsense in some random corner, so this bot is really more like "Glacial Pioneering Project feat. Roald"... Does this show how much of a mess my creative process is?

The amount of crew on the ship is unspecified so you can introduce whatever characters you want, and the things in the planet aren't specified either, so maybe you stumble onto a lost alien civilization or something. Really, you have a planet-sized playground here, I feel like you could do many more interesting things with that than with mister Roald "the factory must grow" Everest. here, let me give you some fun and interesting ideas:

ROLEPLAY IDEAS

• Chief Surveyor − You are responsible for charting and exploring the planet. You find the resources Roald has to extract, alongside anything else you find interesting, catalog and extensively research it. Anything from alien ruins to interdimensional energy traces to a funny-looking pile of sno