Anomaly

Looking Down

Vu d'en haut

Level 6

Description

Optical sensors isolate a cluster of shapes on the barren surface of … that could be buildings.

Where to find it

Game conditions on the surveyed body.

Possible outcomes

Rewards read from the event effects. Some depend on conditions (empire type, earlier choices) or on chance.

50% of the time

Unusual Tectonics

Console: event anomaly.285

Description

What the … found on … were not buildings, but surprisingly regular mineral outcroppings. Science Officer … asserts that these angular blocks of rock are the product of interactions between tectonic plates, their shapes the result of the unusual tectonophysics inherent in the planet's crust.

The perfect angularity of these thrust faults implies a possibility of aliens tampering with …'s crust at some point in the past.

« Most intriguing. »

  • Modifier: « Unusual Tectonics »
  • Deposit: Engineering +2
  • Deposit: Physics +2

50% of the time

Alien Barracks

Console: event anomaly.3015

Description

The silhouettes discernible from orbit are indeed buildings, and closer inspection reveal them to be of an obvious martial nature. While abandoned for some time - though very recently on a galactic timescale - Science Officer … believes that secrets of alien tactics may yet be exhumed from beneath the dust that covers the decaying barracks and looted armories.

A Special Project may be issued to study the remains.

« Acknowledged. »

  • Then: Contact Report: Remnants

« That this outpost is dead and buried speaks volumes. »

  • 6 months of Influence income