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The purpose of this article is to clarify which events are mandatory and which are optional. Some articles on the wiki assume the best-case scenario with the player completing all quests and events in the best way, but there is some discussion that this is not the ideal way to cover the events of [[Star Control II]].

You can document mandatory events without restriction, but try and point out that optional events might not happen. There are a few ways you can do this:
*Create a new heading titled "Optional events". Document all the mandatory events before this section and all the optional events in this section.
*Use a cause-and-effect structure of sentencing to clarify that certain events only occur if the protagonist completes a certain game event. In a completely fictional example:
*:"Mars is the home of ultra-powerful psionic beings. 
*:If [[The Captain]] meets these beings, they dominate the crew of [[The Flagship]] and invade the other races. The entire galaxy falls under the dominion of the Great Martian Empire."

This page is still very much a work in progress. Please feel free to add or modify what you see here. If you disagree with any of the following points, please add "(disputed, see [[Ultronomicon_talk:Game events|talk]])" and bring it up in the talk page.

==Mandatory events==
These events will occur if the player successfully completes the game. Each child event represents events that must occur in order for the parent event to occur. This list also assumes that the player does not take advantage of the [[Ur-Quan Kohr-Ah|Kohr-Ah]] [[Death March]] to avoid child events. Historical events are all considered mandatory, as are any of the events mentioned at the end of the game (except for the "blooper reel", of course).

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===Needed to finish the game===

Destroy the [[Sa-Matra]]
*Do away with the Sa-Matra's guards
**Obtain the [[Talking Pet (device)]]
**#Obtain the [[Taalo Shield]]
**#*Meet the [[Orz]] at Delta Vulpeculae IIc
**#Meet the [[Umgah]] when under control of the Talking Pet
**#*Learn of the Talking Pet from the [[Arilou]]
*Install the amplified [[Utwig Bomb]] onto [[The Flagship]]
**Meet and ally with the [[Chmmr]]
***Remove the [[Ilwrath]] from [[Procyon]]
****Convince the Ilwrath to attack the [[Thraddash]]
*****Obtain a [[HyperWave Broadcaster]] ([[Burvixese Hyperwave Broadcaster]] or [[Umgah Hyperwave Broadcaster]])
***Speed up the Chmmr synthesis
****Obtain the [[Sun Device]]
*****Remove most of the [[Mycon]] from [[Beta Brahe]]
*****#Meet and ally with the [[Syreen]]
*****#*Obtain the [[Deep Child Egg Case Fragments]]
*****#*Discover that the Mycon destroyed [[Syra]]
*****#Recover the Syreen fleet
*****#Convince the Mycon to go to [[Organon]]
**Obtain the [[Utwig Bomb]]
***Fight against five Druuge [[Mauler]]s at [[Zeta Hyades]] VI-B.
****Fix the [[Ultron]] (the [[Supox]] and the [[Utwig]] declare war on the [[Ur-Quan Kohr-Ah]] as a result of this)
*****Obtain the broken Ultron
******Meet the [[Supox]]
*****Obtain the [[Rosy Sphere]]
******Meet and trade with the [[Druuge]]
*****Obtain the [[Aqua Helix]]
******Meet with the [[Thraddash]]
*****Obtain the [[Clear Spindle]]
******Meet with the [[Pkunk]]

===Assumed as mandatory===
These events are assumed, either because the game would be nearly impossible to complete without them<sup>1</sup> or simply because it "makes sense" in the game. 
Each child event represents events that must occur in order for the parent event to occur.

*Meet the [[Ur-Quan drone]]<sup>1</sup>
*Convince Commander [[Hayes]] to ally with [[The Captain]]<sup>1</sup>
**Supply the [[Earth Starbase]] with radioactives
***Visit [[Io]] or [[Mercury]]
**Explore [[Luna]] and salvage the [[Moon Base]]
**Defeat a half-crippled [[Ilwrath]] [[Avenger]]
*[[Slylandro]] [[Probe]]s run rampant throughout the galaxy (''Note:'' Meeting the Slylandro is '''not''' considered mandatory)
*Meet the [[Zoq-Fot-Pik]]
**Get the info about location of Syreen fleet from Zoq-Fot-Pik
*The [[Ur-Quan Kohr-Ah]] don't end up cleansing any other races, although they are winning the Second [[Doctrinal Conflict]].

===Mandatory Alliance membership===
The following races will be part of the [[New Alliance of Free Stars]] if the player successfully completes the game.
*[[Chmmr]]
*[[Human]]
*[[Supox]]
*[[Syreen]]
*[[Utwig]]

==Optional events (explicit)==
While anything not mentioned above should be considered optional, the following list contains events that are explicitly optional. The main purpose of this list is to clarify events that ''might'' be considered mandatory, but are actually optional.

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*The [[Ilwrath]] and the [[Thraddash]] do not necessarily wipe each other out.
**It can be assumed that [[The Captain]] destroys the [[Sa-Matra]] before the Ilwrath and Thraddash wipe each other out. 
**Since the remaining [[New Alliance of Free Stars|Chmmr and allied]] fleets manage to defeat the remaining [[Dreadnought]] and [[Marauder]] fleets, it can also be assumed that they can defeat or control the remaining [[battle thralls]] as well—including the Ilwrath and the Thraddash.
*[[The Captain]] meets [[Fwiffo]], who joins his fleet and survives until the end of the game.
**It is possible to goad Fwiffo into fighting by selecting "You attacked our lander -- killed our crew! Prepare to die.", an option immediately available when The Captain first talks to Fwiffo.
**While optional, this event may become part of the accepted [[canon]] based on comments made by [[Paul Reiche III]] on what a future sequel may entail.
*The Captain doesn't necessarily meet with the [[Slylandro]] to stop their [[Probe]]s
**This probably doesn't require much of an explanation. Beyond their friendship and some interesting background information (especially about their glowy bits), the Slylandro gasbags provide nothing towards the final goal of destroying the Sa-Matra.
*Allying with the [[Zoq-Fot-Pik]] and subsequently saving them.
*Acquiring a [[Portal Spawner]]
*#Recover the [[Ur-Quan Warp Pod]] from Alpha Pavonis VII
*#Give the Ur-Quan Warp Pod to the Arilou

===Optional Alliance membership===
The following races will only be a part of the [[New Alliance of Free Stars]] through player actions. Any races not mentioned here or in the [[#Mandatory Alliance membership|mandatory Alliance section]] above will not join the Alliance regardless of player actions. Where mentioned, parent actions only occur if the child actions also occur.

Official members of the Alliance who send ship designs and starship captains to the [[Earth Starbase]]
*[[Orz]]
*[[Pkunk]]
**if [[The Captain]] incites the [[Yehat Rebellion]]
**after the conclusion of the Yehat Rebellion
*[[Shofixti]]
**if The Captain restores the Shofixti race
*[[Spathi]]
**if The Captain eliminates the [[Evil Ones]] from [[Spathiwa]]
*[[Thraddash]]
**if The Captain defeats at least 25 [[Torch]]es in combat.
*[[Yehat]]
**if The Captain incites the Yehat Rebellion
**after the conclusion of the Yehat Rebellion
*[[Zoq-Fot-Pik]]

These races provide assistance, but are never official members of the Alliance (but only through player actions)
*[[Arilou Lalee'lay]]
*[[Melnorme]]
*[[Pkunk]]
**before the conclusion of the Yehat Rebellion
*[[Yehat Rebels]]
**if The Captain incites the Yehat Rebellion
**before the conclusion of the Yehat Rebellion

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