If you're still pining for the good ol' days of Space Quest, today's news should be encouraging, as indie Canadian developer Red Talon Games has announced its debut sci-fi comic adventure, Moon Base: Orion.

Controlling a (what else?) space janitor named Rad Tunever, players will receive a garbled distress call from the remote Moon Base: Orion, transmitting something about "...robots rebelling..." before breaking off. And so it's up to the socially dysfunctional, wisecracking Tunever to play the unlikely hero, but "will he be able to find the resolve within himself to defeat a threat of galactic proportions and rescue the base inhabitants before they ask him to just please leave?" According to the developers, "No. No he can't."

No firm release details for Moon Base: Orion have yet been announced, but Red Talon is currently planning to release the game through digital distribution in the fourth quarter of this year. In the meantime, be sure to follow the game's progress at the official website.