Star Trek Engineering Crisis

index.js

const getRandomItem = list => list[Math.floor(Math.random() * list.length)];

const components = [
    'matter/antimatter manifold',
    'main deflector dish',
    'kettle',
    'Captain\'s copy of TMNT Issue #1 signed by Roger Moore',
    'baffle plate',
    'navigational laser',
    'secondary plasma relay'
];

const subordinates = [
    'Seven',
    'Lieutenant Barclay'
];

const actions = [
    'rerouting power to',
    'realigning',
    'synchronising',
    'boiling',
    'activating',
    'reading',
    'ejecting',
    'deliberating over',
    'restarting'
];

const developments = [
    'has developed a feedback loop',
    'has ruptured',
    'has developed a mysterious defect',
    'has started showing anomalous readings',
    'has disappeared'
];

const getComponent = () => getRandomItem(components);

const getEscalation = () => getRandomItem([
    'causing a ' + getComponent() + ' overload',
    'flooding decks 1, 2, 3, 5, 8 and 13 with epsilon gas',
    'causing an explosion in the mess hall',
    'resulting in the Captain being locked in the ready room'
]);

const getAddress = () => Math.random() > 0.5 ? 'I am' : getRandomItem(subordinates) + ', try';

const getInstruction = () => {
    const component = getComponent();
    return {
        sentence: [getRandomItem(actions), 'the', component].join(' '),
        component
    };
};

// Plan:
// * Address 
// * Instruction 
//     * Action
//     * The [Subject]

const getPlan = () => {
    const instruction = getInstruction();
    return {
        sentence: [getAddress(), instruction.sentence].join(' ') + '.',
        component: instruction.component
    };
};

const getDevelopment = () => getRandomItem(developments);

// Outcome 
// * The [Plan subject or random subject]
// * Development 
// * Escalation 

const getOutcome = (plan) => {
    return ['The', plan.component, getDevelopment(), getEscalation()].join(' ') + '.';
}

const fullPlan = getPlan();

console.log(fullPlan.sentence);
console.log(getOutcome(fullPlan))