Anomaly
Gray Goo
Gélatine grise
Description
The planetary body … appears to be covered in some manner of grayish substance, possessing strange properties and varying metallic composition.
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.
Gray Goo
Console: event distar.40
Description
After detailed analysis, Officer … has discovered that the strange metallic substance coating the surface of … in fact comprises of billions upon billions of nanites! These nanites are microscopic, self-replicating micro-machines, perhaps created by a past civilization for some unknown purpose.
The volume and density of this nanite sludge is remarkable, adding billions of tons of mass to the underlying planet. It would appear these tiny self-replicators entered a state of runaway reproduction at some point in the past, engulfing the planet and everything on it.
In studying the nanites, the crew has made some exciting new findings that will undoubtedly aid us in our own research.
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- Technology: Assembly Patterns
- Technology: Construction Templates
- Technology: tech_repeatable_reduced_building_time
- Then: L-Gate Insights Gathered
- Research option: tech_lgate_activation