Archaeological site
Get to the Bottom
Descendre au fond
Description
The visual sensor feed from … shows formations in the seabed of this ocean world that are highly unusual.
Dig stages
Rewards read from the event effects. Some depend on conditions (empire type, earlier choices) or on chance.
Stage 1 · difficulty 3
Wounds on the Ocean Floor
Console: event ancrel.9335
Description
Closer inspection of … reveals that the bottom of the vast oceans look exceptionally strange - more like the surface of a moon or an asteroid - completely covered in impact craters. Craters like that tend to not appear on celestial bodies with atmosphere, and especially not on the ones with oceans.
Further studies must be made.
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- +50 to +250 Minor Artifacts
Stage 2 · difficulty 5
Otherworldly Waters
Console: event ancrel.9340
Description
The answer to the mysterious craters in the ocean floor was finally found in an analysis of the water itself. Traces of certain minerals and chemical compositions proved that the water did in fact not belong to the same planet. It was transported here in the form of gargantuan blocks of ice that were hurled down on the planet. The ice blocks crashed, cracked into splinters and melted, eventually covering almost the entire surface with water.
It was an absolutely monumental undertaking, but there is nothing that hints to why it was carried out.
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- +50 to +250 Minor Artifacts
Stage 3 · difficulty 4
Console: event ancrel.9341
No reward described.