Archaeological site
Beneath the Waves
Sous les vagues
Description
Scans made by the Science Ship in orbit of … shows some strange formations beneath the waves, and inexplicable water currents. The weather is relatively placid and storms are rare, yet the planetary seas seem to constantly roil and churn, driven by some unknown force beneath the surface. A closer inspection is recommended.
Dig stages
Rewards read from the event effects. Some depend on conditions (empire type, earlier choices) or on chance.
Stage 1 · difficulty 4
Surface Piercers
Console: event ancrel.9310
Description
The surface expedition down to the seas of … has come across something strange. Great spikes of organic material pierce the surface of the water, made from some kind of fossilized coral or bone, stretching hundreds of meters towards the sky.
The spikes are found in claw-like clusters of up to a few dozen, and formations like these are commonplace everywhere except the very coldest polar seas. The spikes are porous, covered with perforations ranging in size up to that of a strike craft. Perhaps they are related to how these bio-structures propagate themselves?
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- +50 to +250 Minor Artifacts
Stage 2 · difficulty 5
Current Makers
Console: event ancrel.9315
Description
The expedition has finally managed to reach a set of long and evenly shaped bio-formations on the bottom of the planetary sea. Made of the same material as the surface-piercing spikes, these underwater formations appear to be some kind of organic pumping mechanism. The living network "breathes", and its exhalations cycle the current of the seas.
The size of these formations, as well as the sheer number of them across the ocean floor, hints that they are responsible for the unexplained underwater currents of ….
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- +50 to +250 Minor Artifacts
Stage 3 · difficulty 3
Console: event ancrel.9316
No reward described.