Deliver us the Moon - Many Moons Ago...

Deliver us the Moon is a sci-fi game about a lone astronaut's desperate attempt to save the world by travelling to the deserted ruins of the moon, and trying to discover what happened...
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[@suborbitalprocess]

If you're at the point where you have a mission to save the earth, and the astronaut has to prep _their own rocket,_ then humanity is _boned_

[@kieransaul2711]

If the entire earth is blanketed by dust storms that presumably blot out the sun, humanity's pretty boned anyway. No plants, no food, no oxygen, no life. Presumably the ocean is still doing okay though, because the dust storms wouldn't cover them and algae could still produce oxygen. Maybe the solution here is to genetically engineer humanity to become mermaids. Or everybody lives in coastal or underwater habitats and eats seafood for the rest of their life. Hope you enjoy algae paste and seaweed, because the fish wouldn't last that long.

[@goldswiz]

i mean the planet no longer has any blue to it at a distance and thats generally caused by the oceans so i can only assumed thats fucked too..... i think the plan is to use power from the moon to run hydroponics back on earth to start fixing the shit hole

[@kieransaul2711]

Oh, I didn't notice. But if there's no blue then you're right, there's no algae. Hydroponics wouldn't exactly fix anything though, it would just enable humanity to survive. The earth is still fucked. I wonder what the cause of the earth's dusty state is in this setting. Global warming? I'm guessing global warming since the coastlines look different and I didn't see any ice caps. Maybe incessant storms and flooding wiped the earth clean of top soil and everything inland got dried to the bone. Or something happened to the earth's magnetic field just as (le gasp) a massive solar flare erupted and roasted everything to a crisp. Actually, I bet you wouldn't even need a solar flare, the earth's magnetic field weakening or disappearing would probably cause the earth to roast anyway, right? A solar flare would just speed it up.

[@FonVegen]

Yes, actually, a microwave laser (maser) would be able to deliver power to Earth, and not only would be incredibly practical, we also wouldn't have huge antenna arrays or photovoltaic panels everywhere. The receivers could be made of wire mesh that would allow for entire ecosystems to exist underneath them. Probably one of the best options for energy supply we have for the near future: Shoot up solar power gathering satellites, point their microwaves at our planet, and boom! More energy than we'd know what to do with, wherever we need it. And no, those microwaves would not cook you.

[@ManyATrueNerd]

Ok, but if a supervillain got control of it, could it be made to cook people?

[@xtermnyjk]

@@ManyATrueNerd one can only hope.

[@FonVegen]

That would probably go beyond the energy density that would be achievable by such a system, unless a supervillain were to be the one designing everything in the first place.

[@kylemrgs]

I mean the laser would need a very low power flux to not cook the atmosphere on the way through. So the collection antenna would have to be massive. The amount of atmospheric scattering seems like it'd be an issue then though.

[@pabilbadoespecial]

Oh I thought I was the first one to comment something like this :(

[@TheGrinningViking]

It finally happened - Claire got sick of Jon's bullheadedness and tricked him into launching himself into space. I should be surprised, but I can't say I'm surprised.

[@kieransaul2711]

1:50 Lol, if that was actually Claire it would just say "You are going to die." and nothing else.

[@35JohnnyC]

That sounds eminently reasonable.

[@ZefVolk]

The game gets really interesting when you unlock the morph ball upgrade

[@idunbeezasmart1]

Remember, Claire is a psychic, so she'll know when you Jon everything up before you do.

[@7thsealord888]

As some have already pointed out... Yes, Jon . converting solar energy (collected in space) into microwaves that are then beamed to a receiver station and turned into electricity IS a thing. The basic idea, and almost all of the basic tech, has been around since the 1980s. Another of those things that could solve a lot of problems IF the money was there. But WHY you would have one irreplaceable microwave station on the Moon's surface instead of in several cheaper, more efficient and easier-to- reach satellites in Earth orbit seems odd.

[@anumeon]

It's a shame that Claire didn't pop in to the cockpit during launch and go "I just wanted to tell you good luck, we're all counting on you" after seeing her message on the back of that schematic thingy.. :D Also,, who in their right mind designs a spacesuit with only 3 minutes of oxygen onboard?? That's like,,, stupid..

[@keyz182]

There are proposals for giant solar arrays in geosynchronous orbit beaming energy back to earth via microwaves. A lot more difficult from the moon however, you'd need multiple receiver sites around the world, and an aimable transmitter to move between them, or to track an intermediary relay. Look up Space-based solar power (SBSP) on Wikipedia for more info.

[@indieWellie]

isn’t the flaw of that plan that eventually the cells would eventually go out of sync and eventually collide causing debris and even worse eventualities?

[@roboahoy5695]

(11:50) the thought that goes through my head every spaceX launch.

[@proudbandito]

Can you please put out a list of games you "have an eye on"?!

[@cryonicstupidity4911]

Well go to steam and kickstarter projects and that's pretty much every game he has his eye on.

[@proudbandito]

CryonicStupidity Ok😂

[@roberthartley7554]

Nothing like a great immersive sci-fi to just melt your heart! Must see more of this! Thank you very much Jon! Definitely going to look into this one personally.

[@PointyHairedJedi]

"Huge-ens" hurts me on a spiritual level.

[@RyllenKriel]

Huge-Uns is actually the name of the Moon colony's first strip club.

[@michaelcullen3519]

Glad you're doing another part. This is one of those really cool games that I love, so calm and mysterious. SOMA, Rumu, things like that.

[@hunkydory7139]

This is Ground Control to Major Jon. You've really made the grade! And the papers want to know who's shirts you wear.

[@batzeseestheworld]

I want more of this. That was awesome!

[@pawelnikolaou2468]

Please consider making a full series. Love your videos

[@katejones8705]

A very strong intro to a game I've never heard of, definitely buying this one.

[@peterclarke7240]

"Claire, rather conveniently, appears to be my launch control." That's a very... functional way of describing your life partner, Jon. 😂

[@cannonball3779]

This looks awsome, cant wait for the next episode.

[@damianmillwood2166]

This definitely needed to be a series. Glad you're picking this up tomorrow.

[@lordlennyofmemetown5485]

Wonderful!

[@martinroner5688]

Awesome, that just jumped to the top spot of my wishlist. And Jon, who needs solid up and down? They're relative anyway

[@morton_slc]

Remember John, the enemy gate is down.

[@joshuawambold6008]

JON YOU MUST CONTINUE! I BOUGHT THE GAME BUT I WANT TO SEE YOU KEEP THIS GOING :D

[@Jimmy_G412]

You know I was never really into adventure games back in the day but this looks like something I could get into.

[@omegatheta1701]

The cool thing about microwave power transmission is that because it’s done without wires, it has a theoretically infinite range given you can focus the microwave beam efficiently enough to hit the target, so the moon would be a simple matter

[@Theonebeliever]

10:40, theres the famous -1 perception

[@Theonebeliever]

i was for a year, but lost my job due to company closure and had to opt out.. so i guess sorry for getting fired and having to earn less money? otherwise idk how i was supposed to know that. my bad

[@naturewort6592]

Nice game. Really pulls you in!

[@Ion1953]

2 minutes into this video I went to the kitchen to get a snack and discovered a box of jaffa cakes that I didn't know were there. Today is a good day.

[@Not-Great-at-Gaming]

4:00 Talk about psychological horror, I thought that was a Cyberman!

[@crispykrememacdonalds2746]

LOVE THIS! Please do a series!

[@pabilbadoespecial]

Physics undergrad here, you could beam the power using lasers and having a big receptor on the ground that somehow transforms that into useful energy. And they said MPT which the M stands for microwave. So yeah it could be a microwave laser. And microwaves heat up water really well, you could use a microwave laser to boil water back on earth and move a steam turbine.

[@eshafto]

You'd capture them more directly as electrical power in an antenna. For safety reasons, and possibly so you don't arc and dissipate the energy in the atmosphere, the beam would be extremely diffuse and something on the order of kilometers square. A bird flying through the beam would not be affected.

[@torgranael]

13:42 "Roll credits." Ding!

[@bigbot8078]

Why yes waves do carry disturbance thus energy, and microwaves, wireless battery or EMP use this property. But waves scatters easily, and in this case there must be an awful loss. But what do I know? I've never been on the moon in the future!

[@tach5884]

Yeah the physics engine gets patched.

[@brandonrojas9737]

I’m totally convinced the beginning menu screen had a personality core from portal lol

[@abc68130]

3:35 The entire book is just "How did I get here?"

[@the_hedonist3575]

I don't exactly understand all the science behind transmitted power, but my understanding is that, as that energy is transmitted farther and farther, less and less of it actually gets to the place where it's going. It's very inefficient at long distances, so you would need to generate an obscene amount of power to transmit it from the moon to Earth in order to make any appreciable impact.

[@ozzyman75]

Watching while battening down during a hurricane

[@lawrenceyancy3364]

be safe fam

[@Retr0Whiskey]

Best of luck to you with that nightmare outside

[@paulbelanger7383]

Good luck ozzyman😕

[@xtermnyjk]

Have fun, hope you don't die.

[@someOtherGuy89]

Stay safe friendo!

[@BRUXXUS]

This looks beautiful! Sexy space suit design as well. I also approve of all the little nods to Dead Space throughout!

[@BRUXXUS]

Also... I love that the earth's atmosphere was tinted very slightly green. VERY good attention to detail about how sunlight refracts through pollution.

[@Freelancer4tehwin]

Microwave power transmission is in fact quite doable, particularly without an atmosphere in the way.

[@happyninja42]

"It's just like your training" Jon: "I don't know how!" ....if only the game had provided him with a study guide for the launch sequence before he was in the cockpit, and if only he'd bothered to actually pay attention to it....oh wait :P

[@AceCorban]

This would be trippy in VR.

[@TheInternetHelpdeskPlays]

Reminds me of The Turing Test in the way it plays. I'm interested.

[@jaketheberge1970]

"All we know is dust." So its just Sunday's on this channel?

[@edchimaera2412]

I have a feeling i'm going to like this series

[@_JStefanelli]

More of this. Plz.

[@Xarestrill]

Cool looking game so far, but what kind of cocking air tank is he using? A scuba tank lasts a couple of hours, the backpack tanks astronauts use last 6 - 8.5 hours (and doesn't use compressed air). What kind of emergency tank gives 10 - 30 seconds of air? Do you know how tiny they would be? It's like those flashlights in horror games that drain batteries in a couple of minutes.

[@ninakuup21]

This video is released on 10th of October, at 28:01 the poster on the background shows the date, 10/10/2047. Mind blown

[@KashouWannabe]

Scott Manley would love this.

[@ronni2664]

If you have a cable that has the length of about 385.000 km, you could use power from the moon to microwave somthing on earth.. probably... Maybe.

[@GeneralTischkicker]

At 5:46 that is clearly Wheatley from Portal 2! :D

[@Rateus_Johanson]

Just come from the new Deliver Us Mars video, I'd forgotten the characters were continuous. Maybe I should have come here first...

[@chadwickhjones]

I like this

[@TheRantingsofaMadman]

DOES THIS MEAN I GET MY COPY SOON? I'VE BEEN WAITING LITERAL YEARS FOR THIS!!!

[@juliajs1752]

They sent out e-mails with steam codes about two weeks or so ago. Maybe check your spam folder or get in touch with the devs. But don't expect too much, the game is somewhat underwhelming.

[@TheRantingsofaMadman]

I found it, I rarely check my email but this sent me to kickstarter, then the email. I only paid $15 and just got it downloaded. At least it's something, I'd completely forgotten about this.

[@Not-Great-at-Gaming]

Now on Game Pass. Wanted to see Jon's opinion, since it will likely turn out he is a genius at rocket science.

[@kieransaul2711]

Lol, I'm watching this right after watching the Local58 series, so the moon is a bit creepy to me right now. Perfect timing.

[@sbsftw4232]

Jon, I'm sorry for my low watch time, I wanted this game immediately so I'm just avoiding spoilers.

[@ancapftw9113]

Seems a bit strange that even though the fate of the entire Earth rests on this they don't have backup rockets to fix problems, and only have one person that can go on this mission.

[@dragoneye0979]

fastest click in the west

[@alexandercross9081]

Microwave power transmission is feasible, but it would be easier to do it in orbit rather than on the moon

[@scoutobrien3406]

"We don't need plants right now" *LIFE SUPPORT ENERGY SUPPLY FAILING* "Oh...right"

[@jonathanboram7858]

Your question about the power is a good one. It absolutely is possible, the science behind it is good. However it may not be worth it economically, and it creates some difficulties in collection when on Earth. It is hard to get a beam tight enough to go through the atmosphere and hit a specific point without also microwaving everything around it. Plus setting up this system would be incredibly expensive, and if something breaks it would be extremely expensive to fix. Basically, if Earth completely ran out of other energy sources, then this makes a ton of sense and would be incredibly useful. If Earth has other options, then they should really use those.

[@5Y5T3N]

i love how the huge space station runs out of oxygen in a matter of minutes. is there 20 people stashed some where? where's the oxygen candles?

[@stylesrj]

Transmitting microwave power to Earth? Reminds me of Sim City 2000. Pretty decent power plant, provided that the beam doesn't miss and start fires.

[@roseowl]

Well this seem fun

[@SaFalken]

Scott Manley ought to play this.

[@landonsanders624]

Please continue this!

[@stevenknetsch8214]

More please.

[@James_XXIY_crafts]

for what I remember producing energy in space has been attempted before but it was deemed too inefficient because of the high power loss when beaming it down to the receiver I don't know if they have any plans of doing it again

[@SteamCraftOfficial]

Jon, I hope you were prepared for a lot of "-1 perception" comments lol

[@indieWellie]

the irony is that he can’t see them

[@SteamCraftOfficial]

@@xALPHAxJULIETx woah calm down dude. I didn't know :/ sorry if I offended anyone I was trying to make a joke. I dont have the money to be a patreon but Jon is one of my favorite youtubers...

[@kieransaul2711]

@AJ Eaton People wouldn't joke about it if it didn't have truth to it. I watched the FTL livestream last Saturday, I remember how the first run ended. Really, it's more of an endearing meme that's become as inseparable from the channel as Benor, or Cult of Claire, or egg cartons. Nobody's actually calling Jon stupid or anything.

[@sotnosen95]

Claire can't receive Jon's messages. Maybe now she finally won't get interrupted while she's reading the superchats.

[@gamingspacemonkey]

Idk about the space energy lasers but I know Tesla wanted to make wireless energy transfer work, and i think it was the same principle.

[@LockonKubi]

I know power transfer from space is a common enough scifi trope. After War Gundam X and Gundam 00 both use it.

[@lalynch]

Yes that microwave thing does exist by the way, just super un-economical and had to maintain

[@tach5884]

So that's the logo Wang Space Administration went with.

[@MartynWilkinson45]

Did anyone else start seeing that godawful superman game when Jon started flying through rings?

[@Harryofbath]

I got an advert for an alien culture conspiracy theory before this video lol

[@marcdoughty-lee2294]

The microwave thing is feasible but would be better suited to geostationary orbit satellites and I’m pretty sure there’s a massive amount of energy loss due to conversions but what do I know.

[@psychonautcentral7924]

please do a full playthrough

[@swarburton24]

Yes, yes it is a thing.

[@hunterapena]

-1 perception -2 intelligence

[@DeadDancers]

I feel like microwave space power has been a thing since the earliest sim cities….

[@Cavonny]

Why not? That is like using a flat blade screwdriver for a Phillips head screw. If a gamer can not adapt to PC controls then my's well just play console games only. Most end up running a secondary program inside a PC game that does not accept console gamepad controls. Then players complain, that the game is not registering you using a gamepad in the UI. There is a reason to have right tools for the job you are doing.

[@Jayfive276]

0:12 - Take a shot if you're playing along...

[@willreaver1425]

30:07 Ummmmmmm........ about those space suits...... They shouldn't be there. The two aboard the station evacuated, and they would have needed space suits. Also this reminds me of routine, which was being made but the devs went dark.

[@Cyfrik]

Could be spare spacesuits, as backups in case the other suits would get damaged.

[@Forestxavier20]

How I feel whenever Jon tries out a new game *Pulls out shot glasses* One shot if he says I have had my eye on this one for a while One shot if he misses something obvious or easily seen one shot in the case that he plans on possibly making it a series or a livestream *Proceeds to kill myself on the second situation alone*

[@rileyosteen6470]

Would a moon zombie be a moonbie or a monbie?

[@fisherjam5182]

Zomboon

[@RyllenKriel]

They crave Moon Pies, not brains.

[@SearynSever]

Huygen is usually pronounced "Win," but something tells me that you are just going to stick with it like "coy oh tee" should this become a series.

[@RyllenKriel]

So...in the plot of this game the Earth has run out of resources in the near future (2050s) and society is suddenly so ramshackle that it's space program is launching out of somewhere looking like a mid-western trailer park. As MATN mentions, why is the astronaut flying the lunar rocket also flight checking it? Sounds like some dodgy writing for thus game, but it still looks fun! As others have mentioned, yes energy can be transferred over distances via a variety of laser arrays. The problem is humans are notoriously unreliable psychopaths, political activists or religious extremists and misuse of such a facility for mass destruction is inevitable. It's also why we can't ever have nice things such as a space elevator.

[@jaredcicero5228]

Goodbye moon men

[@DarkVariable]

Is the moon bears name Desmond by any chance? Haha

[@superbun277]

Anyone else getting serious Lone Echo on Oculus Rift vibes from this?

[@kristinwestlake6893]

Some how Jon wanted this to be soma

[@5Andysalive]

This is basically a budget version of Lone Echo? Only that does not use that idiotic "oxygen for a minute" bullshit. Which is not only absolute nonsense, it's also almost as overused in games as the d-day landing.- At least it seems to be more complex than Adrift, which did the same.

[@z-beeblebrox]

FYI it's pronounced "HYOY-gens" (hard-g) He was one of those science guys

[@TakeMyLunch]

anyone else feel like this would be a weird vr game?

[@TheTruth-xp2of]

Game tells Jon launch sequence what, 4 times? Perception -4.

[@saskoilersfan]

Earth's greatest optical illusion is the moon... I know how to advertise on earths attmosprere...

[@CuppaLLX]

4:50 "issac johson goes missiong maybe hes a zombie, a survivor..." or you know you...they player....your Isacc if your supose to be the paretn of clare and mary....