The Shorter Journey Home

The Shorter Journey Home is a quest in The Long Journey Home.

Description
The player can start the quest by communicating with an alien passenger. Kirsten, Miri, Simon, and Zoe can communicate with aliens. Only passengers, that belong to one of the the alien races present in the seed can start the quest. If the alien is part of the seed, Miri will always succeed with starting the quest. Kirsten, Simon, and Zoe can fail, but might also be able to retrieve the coordinates of a wreck, a ruin, a biotope, or resources (even if the alien is not part of the seed).

The alien expresses its wish to return home and indicates a location on the galaxy map.

At the indicated starport/planet the player has to show the alien. The reward is approximately 240. Returning Ilitza, Wolphax, and Glukkt increases the respect of that race.

The quest will be aborted, if the alien is sold to Ilitza or Raxact, enslaved, returned somewhere else, removed during cargo scans, or leaves the ship. This has in general no bad consequences.