Fools! Don't they know that space is DANGEROUS? Your skills are needed in the Intergalactic Space Rescue service, where you will make space a safer place for travellers by locating stricken starships to rescue their crew and passengers. Navigation in the 1,000 uncharted sectors is difficult and you'll need all your abilities to complete your important mission. You need to explore the sector of space as you go along, using the strength of the stricken starship's distress signal as a guide. While your jump drive has enough quantum crystals to reach the sector and get home again, your manoeuvre drives have limited fuel capacity, so once the mission begins you have to think carefully about where you move. You should try to avoid asteroids, through which careful navigation saps extra fuel, and hyperspaces, large wormholes which throw you out of your way. Planets, on the other hand, are a source of fuel for your manoeuvre drives. If you run out of fuel during a mission, you can attempt it again, retaining all the information about the sector that your exploration gained the first time around. Early in your career, you'll be sent on the easier missions in which location and approach to the shipwreck can be straightforward. As you progress, though, your missions will become more and more challenging. Once you have succeeded in the final mission, you will be awarded a well-deserved retirement. Load the game with the command: LOAD "" When the game starts, you will can select your control method: keyboard or Kempston joystick. The keys for the game are: A - fire S - up X - down N - left M - right You can hold down FIRE to bring up the menu. Use LEFT and RIGHT to move through the options, and release FIRE to select. Options on the menu are: SHOW MISSION INFORMATION: recall the mission number, and the code that allows you to return to this mission in future. RESTART THIS MISSION: abandon the current attempt, and return to the start position with a full tank of fuel. ON TO NEXT MISSION: progress to the next mission when the current one is completed. Only available when the ship in distress has been found. You will be shown the number and code for the mission; make a note of them in case you want to return to this mission later. CHOOSE A MISSION: return to a mission you have reached before; this allows you to resume a game you have left off in a previous session. You need to know the mission number and its secret pass-code. BEGIN NEW GAME: start again from mission 000. Acknowledgements Thanks to Ricky Walker, and World of Spectrum forum members deadpan666, Ivanzx, jp, and LCD for helping test this game.