Anomaly
Pulsating Object
Objet pulsant
Description
Initial scans of … have discovered a peculiar airborne object floating through the troposphere, shrinking and swelling in size as it changes positions. Further investigation is necessary in order to classify its nature.
Where to find it
has_any_strategic_resource = no
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.
Ancient Weather Balloon
Console: event extreme_frontiers.100
Description
… has identified the mysterious airborne object on … as an archaic weather balloon. Any markings that could have identified its origin have long since been stripped away by the planet's extreme atmospheric conditions.
Radiometric dating suggests it has been present in …'s atmosphere for over a century, fluctuating in size as it travels listlessly through the planet's idiosyncratic pressure variations.
Miraculously, the solar energy panels are still functioning and its sensor array now carries a century's worth of valuable atmospheric data. It will be of great interest to our ….
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