It's a great time to be alive! And it's all the sweeter since "being alive" isn't a description that could be applied to the thirty percent of humanity that died under the multi-decade Gloss occupation of Earth, or the further fifteen percent that died in the process of flinging the nasty drippy alien conquerors off the planet again. Too bad for them, but for the fifty-five percent who made it through things are looking up.
Things are especially looking up for you. Examining some recovered Gloss space radar records, you found that the invaders were tracking an object moving on a long orbit around the Earth-Moon system: a giant object fully a kilometer across, an undoubtedly artificial object. The Human Navy is quite busy just now, so you selflessly appropriated a Gloss spacecraft from the ruins of the Berne fastness and headed out into space to investigate this dangerously lucrative threat to humanity. Once the rest of the world has pulled itself together enough to have an economy again, you're going to be on easy street for life.
All you have to do is figure out what, exactly, this mystery object is...
13th place (out of 43) in the 12th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition.
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