Team Green"Lets not get near those."
Follow lars.
"Holy shit. We found life? Or something aproximating it."
Scan the the lice. Prevent anyone from getting closer, or attempting to interact with the lice.
what do you think these creatures eat? I havent seen anything resembling plantlife yet...
record as much footage of the magmalouse as possible, attempt to devise a way to capture one at a later date.
"The gods bring life where they see fit. Leave them be- do not approach them. We'll go the long way around. Morul, please inspect these things and we'll be on our way."
After they get scanned, go the long way around to avoid them while still headed toward the center.
Green team gathers around the nearest creature and get video of it from every possible angle. Or at least every possible angle that doesn't involve touching it.
"You think we could capture one?"
"Assuming it doesn't spray acid or molten iron at us or something I don't see why not."
"It probably won't survive being carried back by hand though."
"Not without a special environmental case at least."
"But I suppose we couldn't keep it alive anyways."
While the team idly discusses abducting one of the strange creatures, Lars surveys the terrain. He wants to avoid these creatures while continuing toward the center of the anomaly, or at least near it. However, from what he can see, these creatures and pools of iron along with other strange formations and terrain cover the entirety of the deeper parts of the zone.
Team Blue"Great, just great. Well, if we can't store the damn thing, we can always just chuck it in the gravity seep and keep the fragments. I'll fix the hole when you're done."
Keep a good healthy distance while the radioactive chunk is still lying around and when it's gone, fix the hole and check it for leaks. While waiting, contemplate the design for a simple handheld grabber/claw on a stick that we can use to move stuff like this later.
Hmmm. A grabber would be fairly simple really, just a hollow tube with some metal cables inside it to pull a claw shut. You could probably throw one together out of stuff in the garage. Although you question how much safety a couple feet of distance will give you from radiation. Oh well, it will no doubt be useful in other places, if not here.
You rock back and forth on your toes, waiting for things to be cleared so you can do the repairs. How strange that you're on one of the danger teams but you're doing the base repairs while the Base team does the dangerous artifact removal stuff.
Flint Westwood - Blue Squad - In base
Plug the MPV in the generator if it isn't already charged. Check how many people can be on the MPV at the same time. Check if I can pedal with my exosuit. Check if I could use the spare parts in the garage (wheels, bars, sheets of metal, etc) to make a flatbed for the MPV large enough to carry three people and a few days of supplies. See if I can use more metal sheets and some kind of foam or glue to make an airtight trailer where we could sleep. Send the following message to ALVIN:
Hey there ALVIN! Everything OK? Are you functioning normally? Not bored or anything? Anyway, can you please estimate whether or not the vault can contain the radiation produced by the object in the infirmary corridor?
((It's probably better to just bury it somewhere outside and pick it up while leaving, but I'm just curious.))
((@Radio Controlled: By the way, is Gilgamesh a he, a she or an it? Nothing important, just asking about how I should refer to him/her/it in my notes.))
The vault can contain the radiation.
The MPV can carry two people. It is already charged. Yes, you could pedal it using your Exosuit. Carrying a flatbed behind it is possible, as is building a small one from stuff laying around the garage. Probably wouldn't be large enough to carry 3 people and supplies though; the MPV probably couldn't handle the weight. And as per a airtight habitation chamber...well that would be exceedingly more difficult and require many more supplies; including air filtration systems or at least heat exchanges and air canisters.
Team Red"Interesting... well not really wonder what happens if I...."
Use a nearby non fragile non essential tool to mash the blue ball things
"OK, ok I won't smash them... I don't see anything wrong with smashing them....I am going to go and map that area I found at the beginning of the mission with a drone."
Go and get a drone and get Alvin to pilot it to the area I visited first with the large amount of radiation but only skirt it. If it crashes go out and pickup the pieces.
>NEGATIVE. THIS AREA HAS ALREADY BEEN MAPPED.Miyamoto joins the growing crowd of people near the base.
"You know guys, I might be able to whip up a program to remote control that mining exo-suit, so that no-one actually needs to go near that thing."
Using a computer from the CCR, or a wristpad of those won't work for this, try to write a program to remotely control the mining exoskeleton. If needed, go check out the skeleton itself first to better learn how I could do this.
((@Radio Controlled: By the way, is Gilgamesh a he, a she or an it? Nothing important, just asking about how I should refer to him/her/it in my notes.))
((Hmm, never really thought about it. I'd say a he, seeing how he's inspired on the figure from classical mythology.))
You don't think the exosuit could be controlled remotely, at least not in a useful way. The problem comes from the fact that the suit isn't built with a balancing system; it relies on the human controller in it to keep it balanced and moving. Without the constant feedback of the controller the suit would simply topple over. Not to mention controlling it remotely would be extremely complex since it doesn't have any preloaded actions, such as "Walk".
Team Unionized repair services.
"Listen to Brother Lars, leave any life you find well alone and hope it does the same. You... uh, [Corsair's character]! Stop right there. I've already warned you to stop doing stupid shit, and smashing an unknown substance falls under that category."
Check radiation levels around the glowing blue thing.
You stick the Geiger counter into the hole. It screeches at you.
"I think it's fairly safe to say that there is, scientifically speaking, an assload of radiation in there."
"Well, fantastic. Just our luck." Anton looks the wall over. "If I try to break a hole large enough to grab the stone with the suit's arms, it'll take more than a few metal plates to repair. So the only choice is to work from within after all." He turns around and walks back into the base, opening a channel to Simus and Miyamoto as he approaches the entrance to the damaged umbilical. "Team leader, XO, I'm going to need some cooperation from ALVIN, since it can operate this place easier than I can. If either of you can spare a moment to give it some orders, it'll greatly help speed up the repair of the damaged corridor and restore our access to the infirmary. I need the bulkheads or airtight doors nearest to the infirmary corridor entrance temporarily shut, and all atmosphere within pumped out into the base's stores. There's a large chunk of radioactive anomaly sitting in the infirmary corridor, and the least painful way to get rid of it is just stuffing it out through the hole it broke in, and I don't want to lose any more air than we absolutely have to. Once I'm done doing that and have carried the thing off, everyone else can start patching the place up."
Communicate with team leaders. If they don't respond or don't take action, attempt to give the same command to ALVIN myself. If the corridor is safely depressurized, open the door to the corridor and push the radioactive chunk back out through the hole, warning teammates outside as necessary, then get outside, stuff the chunk into a container and carry it away so that others can work.
You head to the infirmary door on the inside of the base and wait while Simus sets everything up. Here's hoping there isn't horrifically deadly or mutating radiation in there!
Sure, although if it can be safely contained in the lab's vault in such a way that it doesn't irradiate anything else we stick in there, that might be a better place.
Can you cycle the air out of the corridor leading to the umbilical that leads to the infirmary, so one of us waiting there can retrieve or dispose of the object that broke into there?
>THIS WOULD REQUIRE CLOSING ONE OF THE EMERGENCY SHUTTERS. ALL REPAIR PERSONNEL SHOULD ASSEMBLE OUTSIDE THE INFIRMARY DOOR BEFORE THIS AND ALL NON-SUITED INDIVIDUALS SHOULD BE EVACUATED FROM THE AREA.
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