The Journeyman Project: Pegasus Prime - Walkthrough Strategy Guide

- Pegasus Prime Walkthrough -

CALDORIA (beginning)

What are my goals while I am in Caldoria?

At the beginning of the game you will:

Learn game navigation, controls, interface and explore the environment.
Go to TSA to start your work shift for the day.

What are the tasks and puzzles that I must 'solve' while I am in Caldoria?

At the beginning of the game you must:

Obtain the card keyring from your bedroom desk drawer.
Exit your apartment and take the elevator to the 1st floor.
In the 1st floor lobby, use the card keyring to activate the transporter.
Transport to the Temporal Security Annex (TSA).

What will cause me to die while I am in Caldoria?

At the beginning of the game:

Transport to any destination other than TSA.

What else can I do in Caldoria?

At the beginning of the game:

Try holding down the "E" key while clicking certain items to activate hidden features (also known as "easter eggs") throughout the game.
When visiting the food replicator for the very first time, try ordering a beverage while pressing the secret key.
If you succeed in finding Arthur at his secret location, try playing the rest of the game with him for a different experience. You can use Arthur's biochip settings to turn him on, off, or to replace the existing A.I. hint system entirely.

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TEMPORAL SECURITY ANNEX - TSA (beginning)

What are my goals while I am in TSA? (beginning)

After you first arrive from Caldoria:

Go into the Command Center and learn the story and protocols of being a TSA agent via the Theory, Background, Procedure monitor.
After the temporal rip, pick up the Journeyman Key, A.I. and Mapping biochips in the Ready Room vaults.
Use Pegasus to go to the Prehistoric time zone to retrieve the Historical Log disc.

What are the tasks and puzzles that I must 'solve' while I am in TSA?

After you first arrive from Caldoria:

You must enter TSA and go to the Command Center to start work.
After communicating with Commander Baldwin, view the video files about Background, Theory, and Procedures.
After the temporal rip occurs, you must leave the Command Center and go to the Ready Room to get the Journeyman Key and mission biochips, then take the biosuit generator/elevator down to the Pegasus device.
You need to get into the Pegasus device within 10 minutes after the rip occurs.
Activate the jump to the Prehistoric time zone.

What will cause me to die while I am in TSA?

After you first arrive from Caldoria:

If you use the transporter again to go to any destination other than Caldoria.
You have 5 minutes to get from the transporter (upon arrival) and enter the main door.
You have 10 minutes from the rip to go from the Command Center through the Ready Room and into the Pegasus device.

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PREHISTORIC ISLAND

What are my goals while I am in the Prehistoric zone?: Main Goal: Locate the Historical Log disc in the hidden vault and return with it to TSA to cross-check altered history.
What are the tasks and puzzles that I must 'solve' while I am in the Prehistoric zone?

You must pull the reset lever on the circuit breaker to reinstate power to the bridge.
You must avoid all dangerous cliffs and dinosaurs.
You must find and unlock the hidden vault with the Journeyman Key.
After you retrieve the Historical Log disc, you must activate the RECALL function on your Pegasus biochip.
What automatic solves are available while I am in the Prehistoric zone?: At the bridge
What will cause me to die while I am in the Prehistoric zone?

Falling off dangerous cliffs
Being eaten by dinosaurs
If your biosuit drains to zero. (You have 2 about hours)

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TEMPORAL SECURITY ANNEX - TSA (between missions)

What are my goals while I am in TSA? (beginning)

After you return from the Prehistoric time zone, but before you leave for the other missions:

Return to the Command Center and review the Historical Log disc for discrepancies with the time stream.
Redirect robots to enable you to go back to the Ready Room and return to the Pegasus device.

What are the tasks and puzzles that I must 'solve' while I am in TSA?

After you return from the Prehistoric time zone, but before you leave for the other missions:

Robots must be redirected to the main entrance during the robot redirection game.

What automatic solves are available while I am in TSA?

During the robot redirection game.

What will cause me to die while I am in TSA?

After you return from the Prehistoric time zone, but before you leave for the other missions:

The robots will shoot you if you direct them to the Command Center door and then you open the door.
Robots will shoot you if you direct them to the Ready Room and then you go there.
Robots will shoot you if you direct them to the main entrance and if you attempt to leave TSA.

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MARS COLONY

What are my goals while I am in the Mars Colony?

Main Goal: First stop the Aries robot from blowing up the Mars colony with the card bomb and then stop the robot from destroying the alien shuttle.

Acquire access card at reception desk to use in tunnel pod.
Acquire the crowbar in the tunnel pod's rear compartment to use later in the reactor room.
Acquire air mask in oxygen room to use later in the maze.
Acquire Shield biochip out of robot's head to use later at the WSC catwalk, Mars colony reactor room, and Caldoria rooftop.
Acquire Aries Opmem biochip out of robot's head to learn info about Elliot Sinclair's intentions.

What are the tasks and puzzles that I must 'solve' while I am in the Mars colony?

Acquire access card at reception desk to use in tunnel pod.
In "Adventure" mode, you must navigate the pod through the tunnels without colliding into another tunnel pod. For reference, see the tunnel map on the wall next to the pod before you get on board.
You must step out of the robot's way in the Oxygen room.
You must go to NORAD and fill the oxygen mask with oxygen before you can successfully complete the maze; also, you cannot breathe in the machine room without air in the oxygen mask. A full air mask contains 30 minutes of air time in the maze and machine room.
Need to use SHIELD biochip while in reactor room or energy will drain faster.
You must access the color matching game in the reactor room by breaking the lock. To break the lock, nitrogen must be sprayed on the lock. The nitrogen will freeze the lock for 15 seconds, in which you must use the crowbar on the frozen lock.
You must solve the color matching game and retrieve the card bomb in 4 minutes.
You must exit the maze successfully.
In "Adventure" mode, you must navigate the shuttle through the Martian canyon without crashing, and then enter the launch tube on the right without missing it.
You must stop the robot shuttle by lowering the power of the shuttle and then transporting into it.
If you take more than 10 minutes, the robot will destroy the alien shuttle. This constitutes as a non-completion of the zone; therefore you must stop the robot successfully before the zone is complete. The robot will try to destroy your ship by dropping space junk into the path of your shuttle, which will drain it of energy. If the robot succeeds, you will fail completion of the zone.

What automatic solves are available while I am in the Mars Colony?

Card bomb deactivation.
Stop robot during space chase.

What will cause me to die while I am in the Mars Colony?

In "Adventure" mode, if you do not successully steer left of the approaching transport pod at the first branch in the tunnel.
In the oxygen room, the robot will kill you if you attack it or do not step out of its way within 15 seconds.
You walk onto the empty pod tracks, causing you to be hit by a tunnel pod
If you are in the maze or machine room for 30 seconds without the oxygen mask with air on.
If you are in the maze and run into a mining robot and wait for more than 5 seconds, it will kill you.
If your biosuit energy drains to zero. You have 2 hours without any environmental factors. Your energy is drained 3x faster while in the reactor room if your Shield biochip is activated. Your energy will drain 6x faster if you do NOT have the Shield biochip activated.
The card bomb explodes if you do not disarm it in the allotted number of tries.
After the robot flies off in shuttle (deactivating the shuttle door override safeguards), then you can open the gantry doors and be sucked out into the Martian atmosphere.
In "Adventure" mode, if you do not successully steer left (or right) of the canyon obstacles.
If your shuttle collides with junk dropped by the robot during the space chase, which can drain your shuttle of energy and eventually destroy it.

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WORLD SCIENCE CENTER - WSC

What are my goals while I am in the WSC?

Main Goal: Stop Mercury robot from shooting Enrique Castillo from the catwalk.

Acquire Argon Canister after completing the morph experiment in the lab.
Acquire ID card after completing morph experiment.
Acquire Nitrogen Canister from behind v-mail monitor in the lab.
Acquire Retinal biochip out of robot's head for use at NORAD retinal door.
Acquire Mercury Opmem biochip out of robot's head to learn info about Elliot Sinclair's intentions.
Acquire Stun Gun after successfully stopping the robot on the catwalk.

What are the tasks and puzzles that I must 'solve' while I am in the WSC?

Pull-out poison dart, analyze, synthesize, and take vial. (puzzle sequence)

Poison dart: Choose "Yes" when asked if you want to take it out. If you choose "No" then you will lose your energy at a more rapid rate as long as the antidote isn't taken.
You cannot use Pegasus without taking the antidote, otherwise, you die. Molecular synthesis game: 3 levels/molecules need to be created.

Find nitrogen can. Must fill it in NORAD and then use it in Mars reactor room to break lock.
Find argon canister. Must fill it in NORAD and then use it to stop robot morphing on catwalk.
Find ID card after completing morph experiment and use it to access Elliot Sinclair's office.
You must avoid all personnel.
Use one of the directory screens to locate Sinclair's office.
Use v-mail in Sinclair's office to learn more about scientists.
Use computer terminal in Sinclair's office to access his scientific logs.
Robot fires plasma shots at you on the catwalk. If you have the Shield biochip activated, the loss of energy is lessened. If you do not have the Shield biochip active, the loss of energy is high.
Must take the dark maintenance passage around to confront robot on catwalk.
When you open the door to the catwalk, you have 10 seconds to enter inside or turn away before the robot shoots Enrique Castillo and then you.
You can stop the robot if you do one of two things within 13 seconds:

Touch the electrical wire, which will electrocute the robot, ending in a violent death (no Gandhi bonus points)
Use the Argon when the robot starts the morphing process (non-violent).
Acquire biochips from the defeated robot.

What automatic solves are available while I am in the WSC?

During the compound synthesizer/molecule game.
During the robot confrontation.

What will cause me to die while I am in the WSC?

If you choose "No" when asked to remove the dart.
If your biosuit energy drains to zero. You have 2 hours without any environmental factors, however your energy is drained faster due to the poison dart and plasma blasts on the catwalk. (10% drain with Shield biochip activated, 20% drain without it activated).
If you run into any personnel.
If you take the assault rifle off the wall in Sinclair's officer and then attempt to leave the room.
If the robot shoots you after 10 seconds of indecision at the catwalk door.
If the robot shoots you after 13 seconds of indecision inside the catwalk door.

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NORAD VI: ALPHA & DELTA UNDERSEA BASES

What are my goals while I am in NORAD?

Main Goal: Stop Poseidon robot from launching missile at Gorbestan.

Acquire oxygen gas at gas filling station. (must have oxygen mask picked up in Mars oxygen room)
Acquire argon gas at gas filling station. (must have argon canister picked up in WSC lab)
Acquire nitrogen gas at gas filling station. (must have nitrogen canister picked up in WSC lab)
Acquire Shield biochip out of robot's head for use at WSC catwalk, Mars reactor room, and Caldoria rooftop.
Acquire Poseidon Opmem biochip out of robot's head to learn info about Elliot Sinclair's intentions.

What are the tasks and puzzles that I must 'solve' while I am in NORAD?

You have 75 seconds to put on an oxygen mask (just needs the filter on, not oxygen), or take the poison gas canister off the gas head before you pass out.

If you take the poison gas canister off the gas receptacle, you must put it back on and press the "intake" button in order to explore the rest of NORAD. Failure to put the canister back on, or to press the button will lead to your capture.
If you take the poison gas canister off the gas receptacle and do not replace it, you cannot recall with the Pegasus biochip.

You must equalize the pressure at the pressure doors to enter the sub rooms.
Activate the launch prep in the sub control room before the sub can be used.
You must use the sub to leave the Alpha base for the Delta base to complete the time zone.
Learn sub control room computer interface and usage of sub arm before robot confrontation in the Delta base.
Must have Retinal biochip activated before retinal scan at the globe room door in the Delta base.
Missile deactivation game in globe room: failure to deactivate all missiles will result in an incomplete mission. You must replay the mission or open a saved game and restart from a saved point in the mission.
You must stop the robot from the sub control room to complete the mission:

If you try to open the door, you will zoom to the pressure controls, which will enable you to crush the robot at the highest pressure point, however this leads to its violent destruction and no Gandhi points.
If you sit down in the sub control room, the sub arm needs to grab the robot to stop him. (non-violent)

What automatic solves are available while I am in NORAD?

In the environment control room, you are given the oxygen mask.
At the pressure doors, the pressure is equalized.
During robot confrontations, stops robot and zooms you to the robot's head to extract biochips.
At retinal scan door, you are given the retinal scan biochip.
At globe monitor, the globe game is completed successfully.

What will cause me to die while I am in NORAD?

If energy drains to zero. (you have 2 hours without any environmental factors)
You will be captured if you do the following:

If you take off the poison gas canister and do not replace it and then try to exit.
If you take off the poison gas canister and put it back on, but do not press the monitor's "intake" button and then try to exit.

You have 75 seconds to put on an air mask (with the filter on, or oxygen although it is not necessary to have the oxygen in NORAD) before you become gassed. If you turn on the air mask filter after time has elapsed, then turn the filter off again, the timer will be reset to 75 seconds.
During the submarine chase in "Adventure" mode, you must stay on the main conduit path. If you stray off the path towards another NORAD base (other than Delta) or in the minefield, your submarine will be destroyed.
If you fail to deactivate all missiles at the globe game, you will have an incomplete mission. You must replay the mission or open a saved game and restart at a saved point in the mission.
At robot confrontation at the pressure door, you must raise the pressure to its highest level before the robot punches the door 5 times, or else you die.
During the robot confrontation at the sub control monitor, the robot will keep punching through the window until you make a mistake and then it will kill you.

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TEMPORAL SECURITY ANNEX - TSA (end)

What are my goals while I am in TSA? (end)

After you return from completion of Mars, NORAD and WSC:

Go to Caldoria to stop Elliot Sinclair.

What are the tasks and puzzles that I must 'solve' while I am in TSA?

After you return from completion of Mars, NORAD and WSC:

Exit Pegasus and then leave the Temporal Security Annex.
Use the card keyring to activate the Global Transporter and return to Caldoria

What will cause me to die while I am in TSA?

After you return from completion of Mars, NORAD and WSC:

If you transport to any other destination other than Caldoria.

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CALDORIA (end)

What are my goals while I am in Caldoria?

At the end of the game you:

Must stop Elliot Sinclair on the roof and disable the bomb.

What are the tasks and puzzles that I must 'solve' while I am in Caldoria?

At the end of the game you must:

Take the elevator up to the rooftop level.
Use the card bomb to blast open the locked rooftop door.
You must stop Sinclair from shooting the Cyrollan delegate by using the Stun Gun with a clear shot from behind the trees.
You must deactivate Sinclair's nuclear bomb.

What automatic solves are available while I am in Caldoria?

During the rooftop bomb game.

What will cause me to die while I am in Caldoria?

At the end of the game:

Card bomb blast at rooftop door, if Shield biochip isn't used. (you have 12 seconds)
You have 3 minutes to stop Sinclair from shooting the Cyrollan delegate.
Sinclair will shoot you if you walk directly up to him on the observation deck.
If you wait too long to shoot Sinclair with Stun Gun while behind trees. (about 15 seconds)
Rooftop bomb will explode if all six levels are not deactivated within 10 minutes.

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