Archaeological site
Toxic Pools
Bassins toxiques
Description
…'s surface is almost entirely covered by a lattice grid of small, circular, liquid-filled pools. Their neat alignment suggests deliberate engineering rather than natural formation. A field expedition may provide more answers.
Dig stages
Rewards read from the event effects. Some depend on conditions (empire type, earlier choices) or on chance.
Stage 1 · difficulty 1
Ruptured Slime Sac
Console: event extreme_frontiers.1100
Description
Most of the surface of … has been worked into a series of spherical hollows arranged in carefully aligned rows. These small rounded basins are filled with a viscous toxic fluid.
Discovered within one of the pools was a ruptured organic sac coated in a gelatinous mucus. The sac's membrane appears to have been pierced from the inside.
Whether or not this sac is the source of the liquid inside the pools remains to be discovered.
« Continue searching. »
- 12 months of Society Research income
Stage 2 · difficulty 2
Toxic Gestation Pools
Console: event extreme_frontiers.1105
« Continue investigating. »
- 12 months of Society Research income
Stage 3 · difficulty 3
Embryonic Remains
Console: event extreme_frontiers.1110
Description
One of the ruptured gestation sacs found in the slime pools of … contained the remains of a nearly fully-developed lifeform.
Microscopic analysis of this embryonic specimen suggests the presence of a complex nervous system with neural qualities commonly associated with intelligent life.
One final array of pools remains to be examined.
« Examine the last of the pools. »
- 18 months of Society Research income
Stage 4 · difficulty 5
Life Signs Detected
Console: event extreme_frontiers.1115
« Extract the energy from this slime. »
- 18 months of Energy Credits income
« Distribute nutritional supplements. »
- 48 months of Food income