Anomaly
Abandoned Settlements
Établissements abandonnés
Description
Scans of … reveal what appear to be the abandoned settlements of a primitive society. What manner of fate could have befallen their builders?
Where to find it
habitable_planet = yes
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.
Broken Union
Console: event distar.170
Description
The … crew have made some astonishing discoveries on …. The abandoned settlements first seen from orbit were once inhabited by a society of reptiles that still populate the planet - but have since lost all capacity for sapient thought! In investigating how these creatures devolved from a tool-making agrarian society into mere beasts, … made an unexpected find.
The burial remains of the settlement-dwelling reptiles possess a spinocranial organ not observed among their now-bestial counterparts. Testing has revealed these organs to be another species entirely - a sort of neural symbiont that connects with the host's brain stem via external attachment to the spine. These symbionts can still be found in hotsprings on the planet's surface. It seems the union between the two species triggered the temporary uplift of the reptiles.
What later interrupted this symbiosis, however, remains unknown. … requests permission to study these remarkable neural symbionts more closely.
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