Archaeological site
Too Angled
Trop d'angles
Description
The surface of … is utterly without precedent in all our exploration to date. Vast geological areas, from mountain ranges to entire continents, are suddenly cut by shapes far too geometrically regular to be natural in origin. The otherwise natural-looking environments are suddenly broken by entirely flat planes, perfect triangles and sharply-angled corners.
At present, any explanation of this baffling phenomenon is pure conjecture.
Dig stages
Rewards read from the event effects. Some depend on conditions (empire type, earlier choices) or on chance.
Stage 1 · difficulty 2
Unnerving Perfection
Console: event ancrel.9095
Description
… is virtually fractal; the same wild collisions of natural and obviously artificial geography visible from space are replicated on the personal scale planetside: there are mountains with perfect pyramidal bases, and jagged, craggy summits. Rough tundra that suddenly becomes a perfectly smooth plane of bare rock, until another weathered natural formation bisects it. The juxtaposition of irregular boulders and rocks scattered among perfect cubes the size of a microchip or a hab block.
As yet we can only imagine how this could have come to pass.
« Keep digging! »
- +50 to +250 Minor Artifacts
Stage 2 · difficulty 2
Grand Design
Console: event ancrel.9100
Description
The discovery of the first crashed flying machine set us on the right path, and led to the discovery of a multitude of similar crash sites littering the surface of the planet.
Without doubt, these strange, dead machines have something to do with the mysterious geometrical shapes that dot this world, but the extent of the damage caused by crash landings from high altitude will make analysis difficult.
« Keep digging! »
- +50 to +250 Minor Artifacts
Stage 3 · difficulty 5
Console: event ancrel.9101
No reward described.