Archaeological site
Beautiful Bubble
Jolie bulle
Description
Surface scans of … picked up signs that a technological civilization may have been active on the planet, but has since gone extinct. We will need to mount a surface expedition to learn more.
Dig stages
Rewards read from the event effects. Some depend on conditions (empire type, earlier choices) or on chance.
Stage 1 · difficulty 4
Barren Grounds & Vibrant Skies
Console: event ancrel.9190
Description
Once down on the surface of … it was clear that a civilization had indeed flourished here until as recently as a few centuries ago. At some point a sudden and total catastrophic event gripped the world. Apparently, some sort of internecine struggle between nation-states led to a terminal exchange of weapons of mass destruction. Oddly, although the surface is scoured clean and dead, the sky is alive with the shifting hues of a perpetual aurora borealis.
It's a striking vista: the desolate steel and stone carcasses of entire cities painted by the vibrant, scintillating colors dancing in the sky.
« Keep digging! »
- +50 to +250 Minor Artifacts
Stage 2 · difficulty 5
Fire in the Sky
Console: event ancrel.9195
Description
The history of … and its lost civilization was uncovered, and although tragic, by galactic standards it was sadly typical. A civilization arose, growing in technical sophistication if not social and political harmony. Eventually they created the tools of their own destruction, and then used them. If the fate of this world and its denizens was not unique, there was something that was, and it captured the imagination of our scientific minds: the ceaseless Aurora Borealis effect dancing unperturbed above all the devastation.
Upon closer study, the aurora effect in the sky displayed repeating patterns, which defies all previous knowledge of weather systems. Is there some message here?
« Keep digging! »
- +50 to +250 Minor Artifacts
Stage 3 · difficulty 3
Console: event ancrel.9196
No reward described.