Archaeological site
Get Inside
À l'intérieur
Description
Orbital imagery of … clearly shows the infrastructure of a technological civilization. Mysteriously, despite massive urban areas linked by an extensive surface transport network, the planet seems totally abandoned, with no signs of extant sentient life. The planet's core is more active than most, but there is no sign of any disastrous event or anything else that would immediately explain the missing population. Where did they all go?
Dig stages
Rewards read from the event effects. Some depend on conditions (empire type, earlier choices) or on chance.
Stage 1 · difficulty 1
Nobody Home
Console: event ancrel.9215
Description
Landing teams were sent down to the surface of …, and captured our first close-range look at the world and its windswept, deserted cities. They are old, weathered by exposure and neglect, but mostly intact, with no signs of destruction. Of the inhabitants there is no trace.
The only plausible theory at present is that some sort of mass migration or evacuation took place. We still have yet to determine what could compel an entire species to abandon everything they'd built and ever known.
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- +50 to +250 Minor Artifacts
Stage 2 · difficulty 3
Down We Go
Console: event ancrel.9220
Description
The investigation into …'s missing population has made a breakthrough. Large sealed shield doors leading to a deep tunnel network stand as proof that the entire species started to move underground at some point. Cross-examination with geological and meteorological data indicates that the entire planet was gripped by a sudden onset ice age, perhaps triggered by a shift in axial tilt, which likely triggered the migration.
Excursions into the vast tunnel network are underway.
« Keep digging! »
- +50 to +250 Minor Artifacts
Stage 3 · difficulty 5
Console: event ancrel.9221
No reward described.