Anomaly

Confusing Composition

Une composition déroutante

Level 3Once per game

Description

This orbiting object has been left behind by a passing cosmic storm. It looks like a space station but scans of its structural composition is returning most confusing results. We recommend investigating.

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.

Stationary Apocalypse

Console: event cstorms.5030

Description

… report that much of this space station is constructed from everyday stationary objects, barely holding it together. Deeper into the structure, the materials transition from metal alloys to plastics and other substances.

Inside the heart of the construct we found a machine, still in the process of efficiently deconstructing organic material and shaping it into the very items encountered so far.

After running a DNA simulation model, our … have been forced to conclude that the material likely came from the former inhabitants of this outpost.

In every case

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