Anomaly

Gas Giant Signal

Signal de la géante gazeuse

Level 5Once per game

Description

We are picking up what may be a faint transmission coming from somewhere deep inside the atmosphere of this gas giant. Could someone - or something - be trying to communicate?

Where to find it

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.

Gas Giant Signal

Console: event anomaly.5000

Description

The … has picked up some curious readings from …. There are significant pockets of radiation in the gas giant's atmosphere that appear to be the result of intense orbital bombardment. What someone could hope to gain by bombing a gas giant from orbit remains a mystery however.

As the … was preparing to break orbit, Science Officer … discovered a weak signal coming from the planet's interior. It may be a transmission of some kind, but the gas giant's background radiation makes it difficult to isolate.

No reward described.