Anomaly
Haunting Sea
Mer ensorcelante
Description
There is something unusual, almost hypnotic about the soft undulations of the sea covering …. Its motions match no known projections for tidal behavior.
Where to find it
No particular location is required.
Possible outcomes
Rewards read from the event effects. Some depend on conditions (empire type, earlier choices) or on chance.
Unknown Contact
Console: event distar.190
Description
The … crew has returned from their research mission visibly shaken. They provide vague, often conflicting reports of what they encountered on … - though in one matter they are all united: the still-flowing sea that wraps pole to pole around the planet is somehow alive.
Though it bears no organs or corporeality we can identify, the planetary ocean seems to communicate with frequencies that affect the brain activity of the recipient. It is able to induce thoughts, images, emotions... and what is more, affects each individual differently. It is entirely unknown what effects prolonged contact with this sea might have, or how safe such an endeavor would be.
Science Officer … requests that a Special Project to study this strange sea be enacted on ….
« We will consider it. »
- 18 months of Society Research income
« We don't have time for this. »
- 18 months of Society Research income