We've all given the Genesis simulation's 'survive as long as you can while taming an unfamiliar and hostile environment' scenario a spin, if only to see what that's like for our colonist cargo.
One of my more popular sims turned Genesis inside out, with alien megafauna rampaging through a simulated version of our ship's biomes.
I never expected to experience something like that firsthand.
Aberrant, wild creatures are prowling the forward ring, and tearing anyone apart that dares to enter their territory.
This is no simulation.
Out here in the real world, my crewmates aren't ever going to respawn.
I've never felt fear like this before.
At least the adrenaline is keeping me hard at work even though I'm beyond exhausted.
I've been able to confirm that the biomes in our ring haven't been contaminated yet, so that's something.