"A New Hope" is the fourth episode of Morphologis' POV in Season One of Group Survival. In this episode, the chase for his rogue mining drone Potatoes sends Morph and TIUS on a mission to recover a Constitution escape pod.
Plot[]
Following the events of the previous episode, Morphologis and TIUS chase Potatoes across the desert savannah. Morph assures Potatoes he will not deprogram it if it comes back to the base. After some false hope that Potatoes is returning, Morph and TIUS notice that it is chasing a signal from the USS Constitution that can be seen flying in the sky.
Morph and TIUS modify the Survival Rover for a long distance trip to find the source of the signal, which landed around ten kilometers away from his base. Morph and TIUS head off. Following some banter and some low-quality AC/DC, Morph decides to drive in silence until they reach a suitable destination to establish an antenna outpost.
The structure, which is dubbed Alpha Outpost, is simple in nature. Throughout the night, Morph extends the height of the structure for better range, and also due to boredom. Eventually the antenna is able to detect a signal around seven kilometers north of Alpha Outpost.
Morph and TIUS once again head off in the rover, with Morph lamenting how similar the planet is to Earth before flipping his rover. They manage to get it back upright using the rotors on the solar panels. Morph and TIUS have a friendly moment, with Morph saying how TIUS might be the only thing keeping him sane on this planet.
They reach a point where Morph decides to head off on foot due to uneven terrain. TIUS informs Morph that Potatoes has arrived at the signal before them. Potatoes remarks that it "found the birdie" and that the "birdie needs help" before once again cutting off the signal. Morph sees an escape pod in visual range and frantically hails it in hopes of a survivor. TIUS determines that the person in the pod has been dead for days. Morph determines the name of the person to be Falnore.
Despite the fact that Falnore is found dead, his pod contains useful information, including data on the bridge section which fired emergency thrusters prior to landing and the detection of several escape pods entering atmosphere. TIUS hacks Potatoes to give them a lift back up the cliff to the rover and they make it back up. Potatoes attempts to resist the hacking but to no avail. With Potatoes in the control of TIUS, they bring it back to the rover and begin to head home.