Anomaly
A Machine Legacy
Héritage de la Machine
Description
An orbital scan of … instantly bombarded our systems with beneficial firmware updates. Our vessel now runs more smoothly than before, but the very nature of these data packets suggest this world once belonged to the ….
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.
The … Legacy
Console: event unplugged.2005
Description
Several more dense pockets of electromagnetism now scintillate across …. These 'EM' fields are the result of catastrophic power surges which have torn through several factories and shipyards. Our … successfully nullified one such field only to find the facility is now damaged beyond repair.
The factories covering this world - which we believe to have been a manufacturing hub for the … - identified the … as a friendly vessel. However, moments after beaming a firmware update to our ship the connection was severed, causing a cascade failure in several regional power stations.
We may have just experienced an echo of our own partition from the Machine, though we do not yet know how or why. For now, with local hazards now diminished, we have an opportunity to discover what the … was manufacturing here - and perhaps, the role we played while assimilated into their domain.
No reward described.