The Golden Crate

What am I supposed to actually do once I get back? No matter what I do, I get crushed by the lord.

The purpose of going back is to enable you to get all of the items from the ready room and the captain's pockets. To succeed in this gamebook you must open the Golden Crate while in transit to Amorphonon 12. Collecting all of the items from the Golden Stream before it crashes will allow you to do this.

So I gather I'm supposed to either fight the captain, or kill the pirate then go back to the ship? How do I know the code for locker 42? No matter what I try it won't open.

a blaster, the straight jacket and the chip. I know what all these items do, but the only way to find the code for the crate is to go with the pirates. So unless I can go back twice, then I can't get all the items I'll need.

Confront the treacherous captain. There's a way to hook up with the pirates later.

I did like the fact that you actually had to use the data tablet once you solved the square, but I only found that through a wrong press in the locker area. Just wondering, how are you supposed to know that first time through?

Knowing that you already have a coded message on the Data Tablet, when you see the code key on the data square the connection can be made.

just wondering how do I figure out the combination to the safe in GC? I wasn't fully awake here so i'm probably retrying a sequence over and over again haha

I assume you mean the safe in the town that you can access with the metallic controller with blue and orange buttons. It opens with a sequence of three buttons, so there are only 8 possible combinations. I don't think there is anywhere to discover the combination, but it isn't too hard to figure out. But as you may have discovered, after some wrong combinations you can start again, after others you are thrown out.

In the Golden Crate, when fighting the Operations Assistant, I have a blaster with 5 shots and would like to use one. But I click on the blaster, click use, and nothing happens. In the gamebook this is a (rather enjoyable) option.

I don't think it is possible to use the blaster on the death-bot either. I have 6 shots, but am not able to use them.

I have the electronic straight jacket but am not given the prompt to use it, again with the death-bot.

Also bizzarely, if one has the (real) Golden Crate and a blaster with at least one shot, then one is allowed to shoot the Operations Assistant. If the Golden Crate is the fake then the option to shoot the Operations Assistant is not given.

his daughter dies and he kills me, because it's apparently my fault!

I never found the use for the captain's data tablet or the data square.

Stow away instead of paying the fare back home.