The Orion ConspiracyThe Orion Conspiracy

Game Details:  Sci-Fi, 1995

Links:  Moby Games, Adventure Gamers

Walkthrough Updated:  8/30/2024

Suggested Listening:  Where There's Smoke (Ash 25)

The Orion Conspiracy is a science fiction 3rd person adventure set in space. You play as Devlin McCormack, traveling to the deep space vessel Cerberus after receiving news of the death of your son. When you arrive you find out that he was murdered, and stay to investigate.

Buying Time

After you receive the note under your door, exit your room. Go right 3 times, then head along the side corridor to reach elevator B5. Use the elevator controls to go to level 2.

Level 2

Leave the side corridor by going right. Wait here until a woman with red hair (Brooks) walks towards you - talk to her until she challenges you to a game of basketball. Return along the side corridor to elevator B2. Use the elevator controls to go to level 1.

Area B1

Leave the side corridor by going left, then continue left through the next door into the gym. Take the chest expander from the exercise bike. Open the middle locker and take out the jacket and the pass (for elevator D). Search the jacket to find an identification card, then place the jacket back in the locker. Go right to the volleyball court, then continue through the bottom-right door into a TV room. Head left into the bar and talk to Chandra about everything.

Walk right, up and through the top right door to elevator B1. Use the elevator controls to go to level 2. Leave the side corridor by going right. Head right 6 times to reach elevator D2. Use the elevator controls to go to level 3.

Area D3

Leave the side corridor by going left, then continue left twice to reach the shuttle. Use your identification card on the navigation console on the left, then use the navigation console to clear its memory banks. Brooks will now enter and confirm you will have to stay for another week.

Investigation

Leave to the left, then head right and along the side corridor to elevator D3. Use the elevator controls to go to level 2.

Level 2

Leave the side corridor by going right, then go through the first doorway into the lab. Talk to Bernard about everything. Leave the lab by heading right. Now go left 7 times and you will take a tram ride. Continue left twice more to find the generator room. Pick up the fire extinguisher at the base of the stairs. Leave again via the exit at the top of the stairs. Go right twice to take a return trip on the tram.

Head right 6 times, then go through the doorway into the lab again. Talk to Rowland about everything. Leave the lab again by heading right. Go left 4 times, then along the side corridor to elevator B2. Use the elevator controls to go to level 4.

Area B4

Leave the side corridor by going right, then continue right 5 times. Head along the side corridor into the canteen, then continue right to the galley. Talk to Chandra, and he will agree to cook for you.

Return left twice, then continue left 5 times and enter the side corridor to elevator B4. Use the elevator controls to go to level 2. Leave the side corridor by going right. Head right 6 times to reach elevator D2. Use the elevator controls to go to level 4.

Area D4

Leave the side corridor by going right. Take the stock-list and the laser welder. Go through the door in the back to reach the catacombs. Go right and pick up a lamp, then go right again and pick up a hammer. Return left and place the lamp in front of the rat hole (while the rat is outside). When the rat starts running in circles, freeze it with your fire extinguisher, then pick it up.

Return left twice to elevator D4. Use the elevator controls to go to level 2. Leave the side corridor by going right. Go left 5 times, then along the side corridor to elevator B2. Use the elevator controls to go to level 4.

Area B4

Leave the side corridor by going right, then continue right 5 times. Head along the side corridor into the canteen. Place the rat into the korma, then continue right to the galley. Talk to Chandra. Head right again and take the blueberry pie from the larder. Return left twice, then continue left 5 times and enter the side corridor to elevator B4. Use the elevator controls to go to level 3.

Area B3

Leave the side corridor by going left, then continue left 4 times. Go through the Crew E door and give the pie to Rowland, who will tell you to talk to Raman. Leave this room and return right 4 times, then enter the side corridor to elevator B3. Use the elevator controls to go to level 2.

Level 2

Leave the side corridor by going right, then go right 5 times and through the doorway into the lab. Continue through the next door into the back lab and talk to Raman about everything. Leave the back lab and then the lab. Head left 3 times and wait for LaPaz to show up, then talk to her about everything (including the latest stock inventory). Click on the 2 stock-lists in your inventory to compare them. Wait for LaPaz to come back, then talk to her again. Go left twice, then along the side corridor to elevator B2. Use the elevator controls to go to level 3.

Area B3

Leave the side corridor by going left, then continue left 4 times. Go through the Crew E door and talk to Rowland (tell him he looks ill). Leave this room and return right 4 times, then enter the side corridor to elevator B3. Use the elevator controls to go to level 2.

Level 2

Leave the side corridor by going right, then go right 4 times and through the doorway into the sick bay. Continue right into the surgery. After Dr Chu leaves to visit Rowland, use the medical computer. Leave the surgery and the sick bay, then go left twice. Wait for LaPaz and talk to her again - she will now give you a key. Go left twice, then along the side corridor to elevator B2. Use the elevator controls to go to level 3.

Area B3

Leave the side corridor by going left, then head right twice. Go through the Crew B door. Click on the cupboards beneath the bed and choose to unlock them now that you have the key. Open the cupboards and take out the container. Search this to find some letters, then search the letters and you will remove the clip. Search them again to find a photo, then look at the photo.

Murders

Take the telescope, then dismantle it twice in your inventory - you will end up with a bar and a lens. Unscrew the grille on the wall using the lens, then dismantle the grille, uncovering a vent. Place the bar into the vent. Search the rations in your inventory, then place the food into the vent, and the doors will open. Go through the doors, then go through more doors once you reach the top of the shaft, and you will reach elevator D5. After a conversation, use the elevator controls to go to level 2.

Level 2

Leave the side corridor by going right. Go left 6 times, then go through the door into a garden. Open the small shed door, then search the shed to get some cutters. Leave to the right, then head left to take a tram ride. Continue left, then through the door to the transport pod airlock. Look at the cocoons on the left.

Once you automatically reach the fuel tanks, use the red door on the control panel. Cut the cables on the left side of the power generator using your cutters, then use the control panel again to turn the power back on. Head right and pick up the wrench from the floor. Now talk to the creature and it will follow you and get stunned. Now use the wrench on the fuel tanks to the left. You will automatically head right and up the stairs in time to see Rowland leaving with the transport pod.

Head right twice to take a return trip on the tram. Go right, then enter the side corridor to elevator B2. Use the elevator controls to go to level 1.

Area B1

Leave the side corridor by going left. Cut both ends of the volleyball net with your cutters, then take the volleyball net. Go through the bottom-right door into a TV room, then continue left into the bar. Take the green crowbar from the bar. Walk right, up and through the top right door to elevator B1. Use the elevator controls to go to level 2.

Level 2

Leave the side corridor by going right. Head right twice, then go along the narrow passage to the command center. Go left to elevator C2. Use the crowbar on the elevator controls, then try to use the controls. Place the chest expander in the elevator controls, then use your lens to magnify them. Hammer the clip in your inventory, then place the open clip in the elevator controls. Use the elevator controls to go to level 1.

Area C1

Leave the side corridor by going left. Use the console here to destroy the transport pod.

Revenge

Use your crowbar on the storage locker, then search it twice to get 2 mines. Leave to the right to elevator C1. Use the elevator controls to go to level 2. Leave by going right twice, then continue right 4 times to elevator D2. Use the elevator controls to go to level 3.

Area D3

Leave the side corridor by going left, then continue left twice to reach the shuttle. Use the locker on the right twice to get a zero-G ratchet. Leave to the left and you will end up going with her to Area B3.

Area B3

After the explosion, use your welder on the doorway to the left. You will automatically go with LaPaz to the other side of the same room. Use your welder on the doorway to the right. Head left 4 times, then enter the side corridor to elevator B3. Use the elevator controls to go to level 2. Leave the side corridor by going right, then go right 6 times to elevator D2. Use the elevator controls to go to level 3.

Area D3

Leave the side corridor by going left, then head right to the scout craft bay. After watching several dangerous scenes, you will end up back on level 2.

Level 2

Leave the back lab and then the lab. Head left 7 times to take a tram ride. Go along the side passage to elevator A2. Use the elevator controls to go to level 1.

Area A1

Go left to the lab. Pick up the red bottle of fluid from the bench. Return right to elevator A1. Use the elevator controls to go to level 2. Leave the side corridor by going right, then head right to take a return trip on the tram. Continue right and along the side passage to elevator B2. Use the elevator controls to go to level 3.

Area B3

Leave the side corridor by going left, then continue left 3 times. Search Brooks' body to get a circuit board. Return right 3 times, then go along the side corridor to elevator B3. Use the elevator controls to go to level 2. Leave the side corridor by going right, then go right 6 times to elevator D2. Use the elevator controls to go to level 3.

Area D3

Leave the side corridor by going left, then continue left twice to reach the shuttle. Give the circuit board to Meyer. Now head left, right and into the side corridor to elevator D3. Use the elevator controls to go to level 2.

Level 2

Leave the side corridor by going right. Head left 3 times, then go along the narrow passage to the command center - LaPaz and Lowe will then join you. Leave by going right, then continue left 3 times and through the door to the garden. Continue left twice. Click on the Waterman to get his attention, and you will return through one passage. Place your volleyball net on the left exit. Talk to LaPaz, and the Waterman will eventually become trapped in the net. Use the red bottle of fluid on the Waterman.

Escape

Exit the shuttle by going left, then continue right and along the side corridor to elevator D3. Use the elevator controls to go to level 2.

Level 2

Leave the side corridor by going right. Head left 3 times, then go along the narrow passage to the command center. Use the self-destruct switch on the left, then leave to the right. Continue right 4 times to elevator D2. Use the elevator controls to go to level 3.

Area D3

Leave the side corridor by going left, then continue left twice to reach the shuttle. Exit the shuttle by going left again, then continue right and along the side corridor to elevator D3. Use the elevator controls to go to level 2.

Level 2

Leave the side corridor by going right. Head left 3 times, then go along the narrow passage to the command center. Use the self-destruct switch on the left again, then place your mine on the switch.