Space Junkies: Chapter 1: Hotels on the Moon

Ggreed, the treasure hunting space adventurer, has just purchased a spaceship dubbed the Junk Jumper. He and his (more or less) faithful crew of Space Junkies, Margo and Puig, have picked up a few extra members (Jisp, Sindy, Priest and Luke) to help them retrieve a valuable fuel known on the Galactic Black Market as “Cheesecake”. They land on Terra 2.0, affectionately known as Planet Blue Cheesecake, instead of Terra (Earth) where they had told their new crew members they were going. Terra 2.0 is a failed experiment designed to create an Earth-like planet. Although the atmosphere crashed and the planet was overrun with aliens, killing most humans, the experiment created the valuable Cheesecake fuel which is known by only a handful of shady space adventurers.

The gang sets out across Planet Blue Cheesecake in search of their contact with Ggreed promising his sidekick Puig, a short, stocky and rather gluttonous pig-creature, that he can eat various annoying crew members once the treasure has been obtained. However, the promised meals are consistently eliminated by other means, leaving Puig angry… and hungry. One crew member is overcome by the hostile atmosphere (Puig disappointment number one).

The gang ends up at what looks like a deserted town where they enter the Del-Moon Hotel and are greeted by a strange Host (Grunk) who keeps his love interest, Chef, chained in the kitchen. Grunk sends the gang to a Mall for supplies (Ggreed’s excuse for them being there), but Ggreed suspects a trap and, instead, goes to another shopping mall where another crew member gets eaten by zombies (Puig disappointment number two).

When they arrive back at their ship, the crew finds that it has been sabotaged. They take a hovercraft to the cave where the Cheesecake is located and Ggreed sends Margo and Puig to locate a crashed ship while he goes after the treasure, leaving Jisp and Cindy to stand guard. Margo and Puig encounter a horde of slugs and race for their lives towards the spaceship. Slugs also chase Jisp and Sindy into the cave where they meet up with Ggreed. A strange plant-man shows them the way to the Cheesecake which is guarded by two dangerous creatures, one of which chases Ggreed, Jisp and Sindy who escape on the hovercraft.

However, the hovercraft is too slow to outrun the Dino-Dragon, so another crew member is ejected to their doom (Puig disappointment number three). The remaining two barely reach the ship where yet another member is sacrificed (Puig disappointment number four), leaving Ggreed, Margo and Puig to sort out the Cheesecake. A conflict ensues leaving Puig with a decision of who to save. His stomach provides him with the answer. Puig has a new love, Cheesecake, which he selfishly guards for himself.

Puig takes the Cheesecake to his Black Market buyer, but discovers that he has been tricked and returns to Planet Blue Cheesecake to retrieve the backpack filled with the real treasure. He finds that Ggreed is still alive and must decide again whether to save his friend or not. Puig finally retires to a life of gluttonous luxury… at least until his world is rocked by the next adventure.