Archaeological site
Target from Orbit
Cible orbitale
Description
An artificial construct thousands of kilometers across is readily visible from …'s orbit. The shape seems to indicate a location of importance in the middle of it. Sensory readings from orbit indicate nothing out of the ordinary so closer inspection is warranted.
Dig stages
Rewards read from the event effects. Some depend on conditions (empire type, earlier choices) or on chance.
Stage 1 · difficulty 4
Down We Go
Console: event ancrel.9045
Description
At the very heart of the formation lies an overgrown processional entrance leading deep underground. Choked with vegetation and half-buried in rubble from some tectonic shift ages past, the going is very hard, and clearing the passageway will be quite an undertaking.
« Keep digging! »
- +50 to +250 Minor Artifacts
Stage 2 · difficulty 2
The Amber Puzzle Box
Console: event ancrel.9050
Description
Once past the collapsed entrance, a tunnel bores deep into the earth, architecturally flawless despite its age. Kilometers down, it opens into a massive, perfectly spherical chamber. Floating in a suspension field at the very center is an inscrutable alien device: a semi-opaque, amber-tinted cube with intricate alien patterns inscribed on all six sides. Touching the inscriptions causes rhythmic pulses of light to be emitted from the cube.
There is no trace of any known language, code, or mathematical equation in the chamber or on the puzzle box itself, but it is fairly safe to assume that the box is a riddle of some kind.
« Keep digging! »
- +50 to +250 Minor Artifacts
Stage 3 · difficulty 5
Console: event ancrel.9051
No reward described.