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[Tavik Toth]

"Must be something psychic or similar causing the laughing. Best keep alert anyway and inform your teammates if you see or hear anything else unusual even for here."

Stay on alert while trying to figure out what is causing the sounds.

[Prosperus]

Simus and Lukas return to base, get themselves a big o' bug box and then head back out toward the volcanic zone. The question is, how do they actually want to go about catching one of these things? Just grab it and shove it in? Put the box in front of it and let it walk in? Smash it with a rock and scoop it in?

Lukas

Lukas turns to Simus when they arrive at the volcanic zone. "I suggest that we try to get one of these things in a peaceful manner at first. We could try just putting the box in front of one somewhere and then 'herd' it into it. What do you think?"

[MutzelRX]

"Rest sounds lik- .."

Zzzz...

[Toaster]

((HMRC peaceful manner:  Only shoot it if it doesn't cooperate.))

[piecewise]

((Let's hope this isn't the mindfuck zone))

((Son of a bitch.))


"Brothers, do you hear that?"

Attempt to pinpoint the source of the noise.  Is it coming through the radio?  Shut off comms for a moment to see if it stops (then turn back on).

If it stops with comms off, tell everyone in squad to turn them off, notify command that we're going radio silent, then shut off comms and head on to the next sector (Sector 9) via the edges.

If it doesn't stop, see if it's vibrations coming through the ground.  Head straight toward Sector 9 to see if it follows us.

(Wait till you get to the outer edges of the area)

It's hard to tell where its  coming from, or more realistically, it's hard to pin it down. It keeps changing it's location, first in front of you then behind you then spiraling somewhere off above you. You shut off the comms, to no avail. You feel the ground but it doesn't seem to be moving.

You try to Move straight forward, To push on toward 9, but the sound just gets louder, and more distorted. It shakes your bones and makes your ears bleed.

"I really.... need to work..... on that"
Check the exact elemental/mineral composition of the iron then put them somewhere warm enough to keep them semi liquid then go to sleep

Well, they hardened long ago during the several hour trek home, but the mineral composition (we'll assume you used the same process that Simus and Kisame did) looks similar to the iron pellets they tested before. You can't really tell if there are traces of anything unique thanks to the imprecise nature of the tests.

((Toaster, you fool... You should have seen it coming when you said that... I forget what the name of the law that is relevant here, but there is one that definitely applies to what just happened, I'm sure of it!))

"Whew... That's quite the walk... Let's stop here and take a sleep and stuff, I think we deserve the rest... We'll get moving again in a couple of hours, so get some sleep."

Bishop keys his radio to base for a moment.

"Blue Team here. We're beat so we're taking a good sleep and rest. We'll be on our way again in 8 hours or so. Tell me how everyone is going then."

Find a comfy spot if possible and have something to eat and drink. Then organise a watch system so we all don't get caught unawares and set a timer to wake me up when it's my turn to take watch. Let the group sleep a good 8 hours.

You and the team sit down and partake in food and drink and controlled unconsciousness for several hours, taking 2 hour watch shifts. Besides strange and half glimpsed things amongst the towers, the "night" is uneventful.

"What's so funny?"

Ignore the giggling, keep walking towards the center of the zone.

((Murphys law: Anything that can go wrong, will. Never taunt Murphy.))

You join Lars in being violently shaken apart by horrifically distorted giggling.

Green team
rejoin the group and attempt to pinpoint the gigglings origin through all logical methods.

If all else fails attempt to communicate by giggling back.

There's no visible origin, or is the audio origin static. There seems no good way of pinpointing where it's coming from using the senses at your disposal. You Giggle back at it but that seems to do no good.

Flint Westwood - Blue squad - Sector 18

Put one of the black tower sample inside the marked gel-sack container, just in case it is living and those black towers can provide it nutrition. Sleep according to team leader's orders.

If all else fails attempt to communicate by giggling back.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1agaZinJHg

You rearrange your samples and then join the team in the time honored art of passing out in potentially dangerous places.

"Must be something psychic or similar causing the laughing. Best keep alert anyway and inform your teammates if you see or hear anything else unusual even for here."

Stay on alert while trying to figure out what is causing the sounds.

You have no better luck then the others. Maybe ghosts? or Leprechauns? Ghost Leprechauns?

"Rest sounds lik- .."

Zzzz...

ZZZZZZ

[Parisbre56]

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Spoiler: --- Team status/objectives --- (click to show/hide)

My location: With Blue squad
Red Squad location: Sector 18
Green Squad location: In base
Blue Squad location: Sector 15
Home Squad location: In base

My Objective: Manage supplies / Complete Squad Objectives
Red Squad Objective: Experiment with and if possible finish mapping sectors 1,2,3,4,5,6,7
Green Squad Objective: Explore sectors 19,8,9,10,11,12,13
Blue Squad Objective: Explore sectors 18,17,16,15,14,13
Home Squad Objective: Repair, maintain and upgrade the base and equipment. Provide support to the other squads (resupply, transport, MedEvac, etc). Analyze and store the data and artifacts of other squads.
Team objective: Explore and map AP 1774

Spoiler: --- Sector Numbers --- (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: --- Planet Map --- (click to show/hide)

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Spoiler: --- Locations/Objects of Interest on AP 1774 (Vastitatibus Temporis (The Waste(s) of Time)) ---

Spoiler:  -- Sectors 01 - 07 -- (click to show/hide)

Base ("Canary Base", sector 1):
   Interconnected modules
      -Each room has sensors to measure pressure radiation and other potential hazards
   Sits in what looks like broken volcanic glass
      -Ambient temperature: 20-15 Kelvin
      -Ambient gravity: 0.8 - 0.75 g
   Garage is the only entrance?
      -Exit faces southwest (zone 6).
   No decontamination?
   Surroundings are fairly safe (except for the crater and zone storms).
      -Be careful, zone storms could happen at any time without warning.
      -Slightly elevated background radiation after zone storm event.
   Exists for 3.5 years subjective time
   Is surrounded by sensor towers
      -"The cameras and sensors outside the base aren't hidden at all. They're all in fairly obvious clusters on the base itself or out on little concrete platforms about halfway to the edge of the first zone in a ring around the base."

Blurad track (name?, sector 1)
   Goes from the center of zone 6 to the near base crater gravity seep
   Melted into the ground
   Mildly radioactive
   Contains small blueraditite shards
      -Caused by the blue radiation orb event

Near base crater ("Precursor Crusher", east of base, 2 hexes distance, 2 hexes radius, sector 1):
   Crushing gravity (also known as gravity seep)
   Dead precursors (9 precursors and their shuttle, completely crushed and flattened)
   Blindingly bright when viewed by weird-o-vision
   Mapped by precursor team leader after his team was lost
   The bright blue object of sector 6 sent a smaller copy of itself in the crater.
      -After impact, the crater kept glowing for a while and spewing radiation, although the effects diminished overtime.

Flat Hexagons with Skylights (name?, zone 2, 1 bighex distance)
   Dangerous, proceed with extreme caution
   The ground is completely flat and partitioned into hexagonal chunks
      -Straight line border, not gradient
      -Border between hexes barely visible
      -No friction
      -Can be traversed with the help of rockets.
      -Near-absolute zero temperature. Possibly related to the lack of friction?
      -Ground very heat conductive. Possibly related to near absolute zero temperatures? Some kind of heat sink perhaps?
         --Laser caused glow but no damage.
         --Gauss round bounced off without breaking apart. This suggests great capability for energy redirection.
         --The flatzone's energy absorbent properties could help create armor against directed energy weapons. Sampling recommended.
   Ecosystem
      -Look crystalline in nature.
      -Live right after the border hexes
      -? How do they interact with the surface? How are they able to walk?
      -? The surface absorbs energy. How do the life forms cope with that? Do the life forms get energy from the skylights?
      -"On the ground are things you don't quite know how to classify. They look crystalline and sliver or chrome, but their shapes seem vaguely organic. Trilobites and Sea urchins, slowly moving things crawling amongst a forest of branching silver anemones and vent worms."
      -"None of the creatures or plants-thats the best analogy you can make for these things-seem dangerous. They're just very slowly sliding or crawling around. Or doing nothing at all."
         --Anton
      -Trilobites
      -Sea urchins
      -Anemones
      -Vent worms
         --In what kind of vent are they in?
   Anthills
      -"...look like enormous ant hills or termite mounds. They're rare, scattered about across the flatlands and made of a strange sort of dully luminous wax looking substance. They tower several stories tall, almost up into the lights above."
         --Anton
   Sky lights
      -The lights begin right after the border hexes.
      -The lights caused the disappearance of two drones
         --? EMP?
         --Ground below the lights safe.
      -Look like "...hazy chains of light, more distinct then an aurora, but still not entirely solid."
         --Miyamoto [Radio Controlled]
      -"The sky filled with strange strings of glowing shapes, like chains of interlocking squares and triangles slowly wriggling in the sky."
         --Anton

Anomalous motion zone ("Newton's Playground", zone 3, 1 bighex distance)
   Dangerous, proceed with extreme caution
   Anomalous motion zones
      -? Looks like manipulator abuse?
      -Objects with higher mass seem to be subjected to different distortions.
            ---E.g. in the slow zone light seems to travel 5 feet in 1 second while rocks seem to fall 1 foot in half an hour.
      -Some zones produce effects similar to time distortions, while others seem to just mess with speed and gravity of entering objects.
      -Zone types:
         --Slow zone:
            ---A crystal fired in the slow zone regarded it's entry as a hit and began growing. It also crumbled after a while, showing that time does indeed pass at a normal rate inside the zone (for the crystals at least).
         --Fast zone:
            ---Also seems to increase gravity, since one object landed harder.
         --Very fast zone:
            ---Also seems to accelerate objects, since one landed further than it should have.
         --Up slow zone:
            ---Objects going up move slowly. Objects going down move normally.
         --Down slow zone:   
            ---Objects going down move slowly. Objects going up move normally.
         --Stop zone
            ---Objects seem to completely stop upon entering
            ---? Even though light seems to stop when entering the zone (the light from a lamp is not visible) the ground of the zone itself is still visible. The zone probably just makes things go really slowly?
         --Chaotic movement zone
            ---All objects in the zone move randomly towards random directions. The objects then stop and begin to move towards a different random direction.
            ---All objects in the zone move at the same speed and direction.
         --"Normal" zone
            ---Everything appears normal, however there is a feeling of oddness here.
            ---Forms a passable corridor between the south and north sides of the anomalous motion area.
            ---The closer to the north edge of the corridor one goes, the more "viscous" the air seems to get. People also begin to exhibit symptoms of hypoxia.
         --Horizontal movement zone (Flies off without falling)
            ---All objects in this zone are able to move only horizontally. Nothing can go up or down.
         --Very slow
            ---Slower then the slow zone
         --Fast up, slow down
            ---Objects going up move fast, objects going down move slowly
      -Straight line borders, not gradient.
      -Makes communicating with the base harder.
      -Objects that accelerate while crossing the border are torn apart.
         --Rocks thrown from the fast to the slow zone received no damage. Probably due to lack of acceleration. Accelerating drone got torn apart by the thruster.

Gravity seep area (name?, zone 4, 1 bighex distance):
   Dangerous, proceed with extreme caution
   Gravity seep craters
      -"The land beyond is potmarked with craters, not unlike the one that sits outside the base, and the light is strange here; near the craters it's so distorted as to produce as rainbow effect, where gravity teases the spectrum apart." "The seeps aren't hard to find; they're quite obvious cracks and craters in the stone."
         --Red Team
      -The gravity can be felt even from a distance. Watch your step and you should be fine.
         --The greater the density of the gravity seeps the harder it gets to stand without being puled to the side.

Magma area (name?, zone 5 & 13 & 14, 1-2 bighexes distance)
   Mildly dangerous, proceed with moderate caution.
      -Unshielded equipment melts due to high ambient temperature.
   Volcanically active zone
      -Ambient temperature: 16000^oC
      -Atmosphere: Boiling sulfur
      -Heat vents (pits)
      -Magma (Molten iron) lakes
      -Weirdvision revealed no abnormalities. Whatever drives the volcanism here is probably hidden deep below ground.
      -Magma sea (a lake of molten iron)
   Rock lice ("Rock beetle, Rock lice, Magma beetle")
      -Poses little to no danger to humans
      -See recovered artifacts for more info
      -? Do they seem to serve some kind of purpose?
      -? Did they evolve naturally somewhere else and then hitched a ride on this planetoid, probably transported by another explorer's ship, or were they created or evolved here?
   Magma dragons (?name)
      -May be dangerous. Proceed with caution.
      -"The appear to be long, vaguely serpentine but with large, individual body segments; like a string of boulders swimming very slowly through the molten sea. You can't see much of them, beyond glimpses as they barely break surface and then descend again."
      -Would probably be extremely difficult to capture without amp usage.
   ? Most zones seem to have been molten and volcanically active at one time. Possibly the formation of a new zone?

Eerie blueish glow (name?, sector 6, 1 bighex distance):
   Dangerous, proceed with extreme caution
   Ground has electrical charge
      -Cause is probably the bright blue object in the middle of the zone
      -Should take sample.
   Blue glow doesn't seem to have an origin. Instead it seems like the air itself is glowing.
      -Should take sample.
      -Air scans reveal traces of xenon. Xenon radiates blue when highly excited. Cause of blue glow?
   Radioactive, proceed with extreme caution
      -Fluctuating radiation levels
      -Radiation becomes noticeable at about 9 miles (4 hexes) from base.
      -Radiation becomes slightly dangerous at about 11 miles (5 hexes) from base.
         --Prolonged exposure (12+ hours) can cause (minor) radiation sickness.
      -Interference with electronics and strange all-over tingling sensations also begin at 11 miles.
      -Anton [Sean Mirrsen, via PW] recommends using full robot bodies or battlesuits to explore, since they are better armored against radiation.
      -The source of the anomaly (? name, center of the zone)
         --The source of the anomaly seems to be something incredibly bright and glowing in the center of the zone.
         --Morul [kisame12794] saw math related to radiation and electricity near the center.
         --Approaching objects are bombarded with radiation and electrical bolts.
         --Electrical and radiation shielding absolutely necessary to approach.
         --Source of the radiation orb zone storm event.
         --? The radiation orb was cylindrical and seemed like it had broken off from a longer cylinder. Maybe the object in the center of the zone is cylindrical too?

Optical distortions zone (name?, zone 7, 1 bighex distance)
   No danger exhibited yet, proceed with moderate caution. Oh, and don't fall into a pit while blinded.
   Spires, pits and angular formations of balanced stones.
   Objects seem to have multiple or even fractions of their shadow.
      -There doesn't appear to be any potent light source around here.
      -? How do the shadows react to light?
      -? How do the shadows react to weapons?
   Lukas [Prosperus] got a weird vibe from this zone.
   Zone types:
      Mirror blindness
         -Vision in one eye replaces vision from another
         -Effect implies knowledge or at least understanding of the human brain or human and synthetic eyes.
      Bright blindness
         -Vision is completely replaced by white.
         -Effect first appears as white spots in the edge of vision.
         -Effect appears on everything that has vision, from humans, to cyborgs, to cameras.
         -Effect implies an intelligence capable of understanding the concept of vision.
            --Dreadful realization: Everything we see could be an illusion.
      Off tint:
         -Colors are randomly switched.
         -? How does the zone react to other wavelengths (infrared, etc). Investigation recommended.
         -Effect implies an intelligence capable of understanding the concept of color.
         -Effect implies an intelligence that understands the human notion of color.
            --More evidence that this zone messes with the brain directly then with the eyes or the light.
      Inverted tint:
         -Colors are inverted
         -Effect implies an intelligence capable of understanding the concept of color and apply it on a human level.
      Inverted vision:
      Inverted vision perspective:
         -Closer objects seem further and further objects seem closer.
      Dark blindness:
         -Everything looks dark.
      Still blindness:
         -Blinded when standing still.
      Blurred vision:
      Painfully good vision:

Spoiler:  -- Sectors 08 - 14 -- (click to show/hide)

Mindfuck zone (?name, sector 8, two bighex distance)
   Extremely Dangerous, proceed with extreme caution
      -No apparent physical danger to flying non-organics. Drone mapped the zone unharmed
      -Severe danger to organics. Mid term exposure causes severe damage to the inner ear, resulting in deafness and loss of balance
   Giggling
      -There is no atmosphere in that zone.
         --Shutting down the speakers didn't help.
         --Source of the giggling is perceived to be constantly changing position
      -Gets louder and more distorted the closer you get to the center of the zone.
         --Ears begin to bleed
         --Causes dizziness, vertigo and nausea after short exposure
         --Causes severe damage to the inner ear, resulting in deafness and loss of balance
      -Effects similar to the sharkmist's anti-organic vibrations.
         --? Those were both sonic and radiation based. Maybe this is similar?
         --? Perhaps robotic exploration is in order?

Orange goo (name?, zone 10, 2 bighexes distance)
   Possibly dangerous, proceed with extreme caution
   Orange gooey things
      -"The blobs are big things, probably 10 feet tall in their largest sections, and spread out like marmalade across the land. You can make out vague things within them; like strands of shimmering thread that refract with a rainbow of colors, like the shine on spilt oil."
         --Bishop [Zako]

Magma area (name?, zone 5 & 13 & 14, 1-2 bighexes distance)
   The magma zone from sector 5 extends here. See sector 5 for more details.

A cave (name?, zone 13, subhex 2, 2 bighexes distance)
   Possibly dangerous, proceed with extreme caution.
   A cave with magma flowing in it. People can walk beside the magma
      -Terminates with a large deep hole where the magma falls in
         --? Someone should explore the hole. It could give some insight into the origin of this area's volcanism (Journey to the center of the earth anyone?)

Magma area (name?, zone 5 & 13 & 14, 1-2 bighexes distance)
   The magma zone from sector 5 extends here. See sector 5 for more details.

Electrically active area(name?, zone 14, 2 bighexes distance)
   Dangerous, proceed with extreme caution
   A great chasm ("Arc Gap Chasm")
      -Blocks ground movement
   Electrically active areas ("Electric fields")
      -? Maybe the iron flow of the magmafalls somehow "charges" it?
      -Dangerous to non-insulated individuals (MK1&2 suits are definitely not insulated, unsure about the others)
      -"This place is probably not somewhere you want to go without some sort of electrical insulation. Even outside the chasms, the ground crackles with live current; formations of what look like stalagmites shot through with veins of metal throw arcs of electricity a dozen feet long and steams of current leap about between them. The ground itself is black and volcanic looking, rent with massive chasms where the electrical discharge is even worse."
         --Red Team
   The ironfall
      -A place where the iron sea falls inside the chasm.
      -Stone islands near the edge of the falls
      -Creatures clinging onto islands
      -"It's a waterfall of sorts, or an ironfall, in this case. A flow of pure, yellow hot molten metal into a massive chasm. Tiny islands of stone dot the edge of the molten falls like sandbanks in a stream and the flow throws off a continuous hell of sparks and embers as it rolls down into the abyss. Even stranger still, the chasm itself, even beyond the falls, is crackling with electricity; arcs of discharge that bridge the gap between the walls and race upward like the charge on a jacob's ladder."
         --Red Team

Spoiler:  -- Sectors 15 - 21 -- (click to show/hide)

Square black towers and orange lake (name?, zone 15, 2 bighexes distance)
   Dangerous, proceed with extreme caution
   Livable environmental conditions
      -"There's  an atmosphere here; in fact the atmosphere here is breathable and at a survivable temperature. It's pretty damn nice, all things considered."
      -"It is oxygenated and pressurized, with temperatures and radiation within habitable ranges. It's like 110^oF (43^oC) and the radiation is elevated enough that living here for more then 20 years or so would probably be rather dangerous to having kids."
         --Vich
   Orange Sea
      -"It's a bright orange, appears to have a consistancy somewhat like water and is gently lapping against the shore, despite there being no wind. The liquid doesn't seem to be doing anything beyond gently moving. "
      -"It does not have any visible creatures in it and it's only active in that it's gently rolling with tiny waves or ripples."
      -"You can deduce the viscosity from the waves just as well as if you threw stones in, so you decide not to throw stones. It looks to be about as thick as water, maybe a tiny bit thicker."
      -"The instant the container touches the surface of the lake the fluid reacts. A ripple explodes outward across the surface, spreading out in all directions. The surface of the lake crystallizes into glass and then then begins to move, random growths reaching up and then collapsing back down; solid glass moving like liquid. The movement only intensifies as time passes."
      -"The fluid shimmers back and forth between crystallized glass and orange liquid before hardening into the definite form of glass, the entire lake hardening over. The ground shakes as the solid glass begins to retract, pulling away from the shore and flowing back toward the center of the lake. There, in the center, something is forming. Something massive; like a giant crystalline rod, an octagonal spike growing toward the sky. As the fluid retracts it takes with it the atmosphere, a visible haze of condensing gas and heat forming over the lake's surface and flowing back toward the growing crystal spire."
   Square Black Towers
      -"The rods are not the same as the ones in sector 18. They're significantly larger. As in 6 to 10 feet in diameter larger. "
   "It's a lake...a lake made of strange orange fluid, with what look like square black rods scattered through out it, breaking the surface like miniature islands."

Black domes ("The Black Gap", zone 17 & 16, 2 bighexes distance)
   See zone 17 for more info

Frozen Crystalline Sea(name?, zone 16, 2 bighexes distance)
   Mildly dangerous, proceed with moderate caution
   Very thin atmosphere of gaseous cadmium
      -Related to the crystallization process?
   Temperature of around 80 ^oC
   Mostly covered with a crystalline solid material
      -"...what appears to be a salt pan, a vast expanse of glittering white crystals which completely coat the ground for miles. Most are quite small; however some are larger then you are and fuzzy with the growth of tiny crystals across their surface."
      -Material is very hard
   Liquified crystalline material underground, like an underglacial lake
      -Looks like a bright aquamarine fluid.
      -See recovered artifacts section for more info

Shuttle crash site 1 ("ʻAlalā", zone 16, subhex 7, 2 bighexes + 1 smallhex distance)
   No danger
   A crashed 4-man mini shuttle
      -Probably the one the precursor team leader took
   Cleanly sliced in half. Only the engine and crew compartment remains.
      -Probably sliced by an SV event.
      -Large part of the shuttle salvagable
   Has caused damage to the frozen crystal sea
   Trajectory indicates it came from the dome on the left (subhex 37)
      -Heading probably altered during teleportation
   Contains personal belongings and supplies that indicate the driver did not intend to return to base
      -Contains food and water
   "It appears to be the remains of a shuttle, badly damaged from what is clearly a crash landing of sorts, judging from the ditch it dug as it hit. However, there is something odd about it; This is only half a shuttle, specifically the rear section with the engines. The front section, with the cockpit, is gone, sliced clean off in a way clearly not caused by the impact."

Black Domes ("The Black Gap", zone 17 & 16, 2 bighexes distance)
   Dangerous, proceed with extreme caution
      -Using the portals should be safe, as long as you wait for an SV event to occur and pass through the portals right after it happens.
   Black Domes
      -Interconnected
      -Seem to prevent some forms of energy from passing.
         --Light and vibrations(sound) do not pass
         --Electricity and other forms of matter can pass
      -Teleportation
         --Acts like a portal: objects entering one dome exit through another dome
         --Objects remain connected (for example you can have half a pole in one sector and half a pole in another sector and still move the pole around).
         --After teleportation speed remains the same
         --After teleportation heading seems to change
         --Objects need to travel a small distance through utter darkness to reach the other side
         --Objects can be pulled from the other side through the portal.
         --Destination seems to be completely random. Even for the same dome, two objects entering can end up exiting from different domes.
      -Shimmer-Vibrate (SV) events
         --The domes all sort of shimmer and vibrate a little
         --Anything inside the dark area of the domes seems to simply cease to exist.
         --Time between SV events varies, but is never less than 2 minutes
      -"Sector 17 is completely covered in what look like hundreds of black domes that merge together and intersect like soap bubbles. The domes rise several hundred feet into the air and though they seem strangely immaterial; their edges slightly hazy, they block out every clue of what might be inside them."

Black Rod forest (name?, zone 18, 2 bighexes distance)
   EXTREMELY DANGEROUS, proceed with extreme caution
      -Flammable atmosphere at higher altitudes
      -Alien lifeforms
   Atmosphere
      -At ground level
         --Some oxygen
         --Mostly methane
         --3 atmospheres pressure
         -- (-10^oC) temperature
      -Atmosphere is mostly safe at ground level, however it may be FLAMMABLE higher up, so watch your fire.
   Alien ecosystem
      -"As you slowly rise toward the top, you see many things. What look like tiny studs along the surface of the towers-those must be the beetles- and strange things that half fly and half climb, gliding and leaping and cartwheeling from one tower to the next, scooping up beetles as they go. And other things to; slugs and centipedes that crawl on sheer vertical surfaces, strange, stilt-legged creatures with shrunken bodies that tiptoe across the tops of the towers."
         --Mesk
      -Beetles
         --Clinging from the towers
         --? Possibly the creators of the carvings?
         --? Seem to be composed from the same material as the towers?
         --"You find something on the ground. It looks like a black stone, but shiny and segmented almost. You pick it up to discover it's hollow and, by the looks of it, organic, like a shed cicada's shell. Judging from the shell, which is incomplete with bits of it broken, the thing is about the size of your fist with a beetle like shell on it's back."
         --"The shells are quite clearly not alive; though they seem to have a bit of..meat? Flesh of some kind left in them. It's strange stuff; just as black as the towers and gritty like sand."
            ---Green Team
      -Beetle predator
         --Moves between the towers, eating beetles as it goes
         --Looks like a flying squirrel crossed with a mosquito
         --"...movement somewhere high above, a barely visible shadow passing overhead. It looks like it's moving through the spaces between the towers, though it's hard to say exactly what it is. As it moves away you notice things falling down toward you. The group backs up, pressing themselves against the tower as a dozen more beetle shells hit the  ground  and crack apart."
         --"You grab some of the beetle shells, but you don't think you can get a full one. It seems like something has broken open the bottom of them and scooped out what was inside, leaving these half shells."
            ---Green Team
      -Centipedes
         --Looks like a rod with 6 chimpanzee arms
      -Slugs
         --? Possibly the creators of the carvings?
      -Stiltwalkers
         --Walk on top of the towers
   Black rods sprouting from the ground.
      -! REMEMBER: I have marked one of the rods so that I can tell whether or not it grows upwards or outwards.
      -! REMEMBER: I have left a mapping drone recording a trunk so that hopefully I can see what is carving those carvings.
      -"Sector 18 is an expanse of black rods, some only a few feet across others hundreds of meters wide, and all of them standing what must be over a mile tall. It presents a wall of black, like the trunks of a graphite forest, that blocks the way forward. The only way through seems either to fly over, around, or walk through."
         --Mesk
      -"Judging from the way the ground is pushed upwards, it looks like these structures rose or were extruded out of the ground itself. You run your hand over the closest rod; it's a bit hard to tell with the suit on and all, but it feels smooth and solid as far as you can tell. There's nothing about it that stands out as anomalous as you touch it, no tingling or hallucinations or alien mind rape."
         --Flint Westwood
      -Blocks air movement (but you can fly over them if you go high enough)
      -Grow very slowly overtime (a few millimeters per week or less)
      -No discernible pattern on placement and size.
      -Incredibly hard
         --Can be cut with a monorazor
      -Incredibly dense
         --Looked completely white in x-ray vision
      -Have complex carvings etched into their surface in a spiral pattern.
         --"And, looking at them, there seems to be a complex pattern spiraling around their "trunks" in bands, like a string wrapped around a broom handle. The pattern doesn't look natural to the stone, or whatever the "trees" are made of, it looks like it was cut or carved in."
            ---Michael Alexander
         --"The carvings seem to consist of a single, continuous line that dips and dodges around to form symbols, like cursive. However the symbols themselves are widely varying and it is quite hard for you to tell where one starts and another ends. They're carved about two inches deep and have a rounded bottom, like they were scoped out with a melon baller or ice cream scoop."
         --"You see what you think are repeating patterns, or at least what appear to be that way. It's a bit like how "v, w, and y" have repeating patterns in their construction, you see repeating structures, but you're still not able to tell what, if anything, constitutes a "Letter" of sorts."
         --"Careful examination of the bottom of the towers reveals that the designs don't seem to extend underground. In fact, they stop roughly a half an inch above the ground."
            ---Flint Westwood
   Coastline
      -A place where the gel sea (sector 19) appears to have flowed inland a bit and swallowed up the bottoms of the towers.
      -The film from the sea seems to have grown a bit on them and is hard to remove.

Gel sea (name?, zone 19, 2 bighexes distance)
   Mildly dangerous, proceed with moderate caution
   Indigo gel sea
      -? Organic?
      -Is bouncy. Rocks bounced when thrown at it.
         --Could make a good shock absorbent. Sampling recommended.
      -Contains a "purplish, greenish, bluish fluid"
         --Fluid not under pressure
         --"It's quite viscous and gooey, but not sticky."
            ---Green Team
      -Gel sea surface surrounded by an incredibly resilient film
         --Is very hard to penetrate or get a sample from.
            ---Can be penetrated with enough force
         --Walkable
            ---Standing still for too long means you may "sink" to the bottom
         --Heals slowly
            ---? Property of the film or does the liquid inside solidify into the film, like blood from a wound?
      -"Sector 19 seems to consists of what looks like a lake, or sea, of purplish blue substance. The colors of it shift and fade darker and lighter, different hues of greenish, bluish and purplish and the entire thing seems to be churning ever so slightly. But the surface is still and placid, and looks like someone has stretched a thin sheet of plastic over it, a thin sheen of surface tension that causes the edges of the fluid to bow out a little bit and stray away from the walls that hold them in, filling the space only roughly."
      -"Sector 19 looks quite odd as well, its a strange sort of indigo expanse, like an ocean but...well..purple."
         --Mesk

Spoiler:  -- Sectors 22 - 28 -- (click to show/hide)

No data available

Spoiler:  -- Sectors 29 - 35 -- (click to show/hide)

The Unknown X

Spoiler:  -- Sectors 36 - 42 -- (click to show/hide)

Yellow fog (name?, zone 36, 3 bighexes distance)
Possibly dangerous, proceed with extreme caution
   "Zone 36 appears to be hidden beneath an all encompassing yellow fog. Hard to tell if thats dangerous or not. But it probably is."
      -Blue Team

Spoiler: --- Subhex numbers --- (click to show/hide)

Numbered sector map, if the need ever arises to refer to individual subhexes.

Spoiler: --- Distance and supply considerations --- (click to show/hide)

Reaching the outer edge of the furthest zone (32 hexes, 4 bighexes + 4 hexes) requires 16 and a half hours at 4 MPH (6.4 km\h, 1.8 m\s) speed. (Brisk walking speed. )
That makes the distance to the outer hexes 66 miles (106.2 kilometers).
That makes the distance between two hexes 2.0625 miles (3.32 km) and
the distance between the center hexes of two bighexes (7 hexes) 14.4 miles (23.17 km).

Fuel considerations:
   ? MK3 fuel considerations?
   A battle suit doesn't have the fuel required to reach the outer hexes.
      -Maximum distance of about 45 miles (72km, 21 hexes, 3 bighexes)
   A rocket bike has enough fuel to reach the edge, but not enough to return.
      -? Maximum distance?
   A 4 man shuttle has enough fuel to reach the edge. Can it return?
      -? Maximum distance?
   An HMRC shuttle has enough fuel to reach the edge and return.
      -? Maximum distance?
      
!!IMPORTANT NOTE!!: Please remember to account for unexpected obstacles, extra weight and teammate stupidity when considering expedition supplies (fuel,food).

Spoiler: --- Mapping Statistics --- (click to show/hide)

Sectors uploaded:

01:

100.% (55/55)

02:

67.3% (37/55)

03:

81.8% (45/55)

04:

32.7% (18/55)

05:

61.8% (34/55)

06:

74.5% (41/55)

07:

100.% (55/55)

08:

85.5% (47/55)

09:

10.9% (06/55)

10:

14.5% (08/55)

11:

00.0% (00/55)

12:

00.0% (00/55)

13:

12.7% (07/55)

14:

25.5% (14/55)

15:

100.% (55/55)

16:

85.5% (47/55)

17:

63.6% (35/55)

18:

78.2% (43/55)

19:

03.6% (02/55)

20:

00.0% (00/55)

21:

00.0% (00/55)

22:

00.0% (00/55)

23:

00.0% (00/55)

24:

00.0% (00/55)

25:

00.0% (00/55)

26:

00.0% (00/55)

27:

00.0% (00/55)

28:

00.0% (00/55)

29:

00.0% (00/55)

30:

00.0% (00/55)

31:

00.0% (00/55)

32:

00.0% (00/55)

33:

21.8% (12/55)

34:

00.0% (00/55)

35:

00.0% (00/55)

36:

00.0% (00/55)

37:

00.0% (00/55)

38:

00.0% (00/55)

39:

00.0% (00/55)

40:

00.0% (00/55)

41:

00.0% (00/55)

42:

00.0% (00/55)

43:

00.0% (00/55)

44:

00.0% (00/55)

45:

00.0% (00/55)

46:

00.0% (00/55)

47:

00.0% (00/55)

48:

00.0% (00/55)

49:

00.0% (00/55)

Total:

20.8%

(0561/2695)

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Spoiler: --- Team Info --- (click to show/hide)

Name	User	(H)	(R)	(S)	(P)	(O)
Miyamoto de Bergerac	[Radio Controlled]	*R ***		A	MK2? F	S = Mobility Battlesuit, robotic overlord
Lukas	[Prosperus]	^R		C	R	S = Giant killer robot, all kinds of weapons, laser drones, robotic overlord
Denzel	[Doomblade]	R		C	R
Anton Chernozorov	[Sean Mirrsen]	R	E	H	MK1 R~	S = Robohands, Shock Gauntlet (can it be used to stun?)
Michael Alexander	[Corsair]	R	E	A	MK1
Brother Lars	[Toaster]	*G	E	C H~ A~	MK2
Jack Hansen	[Tavik Toth]	^G		C	MK1	S = INJURY: Deaf, Balance severely impaired
Morul Migrurkeshin	[Kisame12794]	G		C	MK1	S = Detail vision DANGER: Detail vision beginning to show side effects INJURY: Deaf, Balance severely impaired
Auron Kell	[Unholy_Pariah]	G	M	M A	MK2	S = Batman INJURY: Deaf, Balance severely impaired
Bishop	[Zako]	*B	CE	A H? C	MK3 F	S = Slow regeneration
Vichislav Freidberg	[Thearpox]	B		D P~	MK1	S = 1/3d of an exoskeleton
Flint Westwood	[Parisbre56]	B	QM	C	MK2 F~	S = Miner with Jump Pods
Zephyris Haizea	[MutzelIRX]	B	M	M C ~	MK1
Simus Ferratum-Inanis	[PyroDesu]	*H **	SO	A C H~	R F	S = Rocket pods attached to robot body, phase suit, grenades
Mesk Vraite	[Remalle]	H	HM	M A	MK3 F	S = Fast Regeneration

--- Hierarchy (H) ---

***	=	Team Leader
**	=	Team Lieutenant
*#	=	Squad Leader (where # is the squad name or number)
^#	=	Squad Lieutenant (where # is the squad name or number)
#	=	Member of squad # (where # is the squad name or number)
R	=	Red Squad
G	=	Green Squad
B	=	Blue Squad
H	=	Home Squad

--- Responsibilities (R) ---

CE	=	Chief Engineer (Garage) (Make sure everything is working well, both at base and on vehicles)
E	=	Engineer (Subordinate of Chief Engineer)
SO	=	Science Officer (Lab) (Analyze interesting objects)
S	=	Scientist (Subordinate of Science Officer)
HM	=	Head Medic (Medbay) (Practice NORMAL medicine. NOT alternative medicine.)
M	=	Medic (Subordinate of Head Medic)
QM	=	Quartermaster (Kitchen/Armory) (Keep track of and distribute supplies and weapons.)
J	=	Janitor (Subordinate of Quartermaster) (The correct military rank is storeman, however that would have gotten confusing with the scientists.)

--- Skills (S) ---

M	=	Medic
C	=	Conventional
A	=	Auxiliary
P	=	Physimancer
D	=	Diplomat
H	=	Handiwork

--- Physical (P) ---

R	=	Robot
MK#	=	Mark # suit (where # is a number)
F	=	Can Fly

--- Other (O) ---

S	=	Special (Goggles, batman, killer robot, alien, mindfucked, mindfucked alien killer batman robot with goggles, whatever's worth mentioning/remembering)
#?	=	Unknown/Unsure about the # property
#~	=	Property # is in limited form but still worth mentioning.

Note: "x y ?" means unsure about x and y while "x y?" means sure about x and unsure about y

Spoiler: --- Base Map --- (click to show/hide)

http://i.imgur.com/FP9oYIU.png

All corridors and rooms can be isolated by ALVIN through emergency shutters.

Spoiler: --- Stockpiles/Equipment/POI in Base (Canary Base) ---

Spoiler:  -- Medbay -- (click to show/hide)

Medbay:
   Operating theater
      -Operating table
      -Anesthetic machine
      -Multipurpose life sign monitors (what does multipurpose mean?)
      -Surgical tools (sterilized. mostly. hopefully.)
      -Artificial replacements for any body part (except the brain of course)
   Recovery room
      -Beds for patients
   Lots of drugs (but not unlimited)
   Isolation room
      -Airlock (Decontamination?)
   Morgue
      -Extends the time for which revivification of a corpse is possible.
      -Working sub-optimally due to severed main power cable (cable is behind a welded panel)
         --Loss of power would be bad news for any corpses contained there.

Spoiler:  -- Central Control Room (CCR) -- (click to show/hide)

Central Control Room (CCR):
   Sensors
      -Cameras
      -Atmospheric (pressure, thermometers, etc)
      -Radio antennae
   Computers
      -Screens showing the base perimeter
      -Screens showing the team's helmetcams
      -Mapping program (data need to be entered manually)
      -Precursor helmetcam footage. (About 60 hours per precursor, 10 precursors total)
         --Revealed that the precursor leader disappeared toward the north
         --Revealed that the other 9 precursors died when their shuttle crashed into the crater. They were headed east.
         --Revealed that there was actually a builder team here before the precursors came. Also some other interesting facts about the past of the base
         --Revealed the existence of zone storms, increases in anomalous activity from nearby zones that may threaten the base.
         --Revealed that the team left after encountering strange phenomena on base, probably the so-called zone storm.
         --Revealed footage of the beginning of an anomalous event, probably a so-called zone storm.
         --Electrical effects during the zone storm are similar to those that occured during the passage of the blue radiation orb. Possibly the same event.
      -Base cameras footage
         --Cameras appear to record only when a team is active on the planet.
         --Contains footage of the radiation orb event, both from the precursors and the current expedition.
      -? Other data?
   Comm equipment

Spoiler:  -- Armory -- (click to show/hide)

Armory:
   Laser rack
      -5   Gauss rifles (Loaded) (Not for resale)
         --1   Gauss rifle taken by Morul Migrurkeshin [Kisame12794]
         --1   Gauss rifle taken by Anton Chernozorov [Sean Mirrsen]
   Gauss rack
      -5   Laser rifles (Loaded) (Not for resale)
         --1 Laser rifle taken by Michael Alexander [Corsair]
   5   Laser rifle batteries (Not for resale)
   5   Gauss rifle clips (Not for resale)
      -1   Gauss rifle clip taken by Michael Alexander [Corsair]
      -1   Gauss rifle clips taken by Morul Migrurkeshin [Kisame12794]
      -2   Gauss rifle clips taken by Anton Chernozorov [Sean Mirrsen]
      -1   Gauss rifle clip taken by brother Lars [Toaster]
   NO COMPONENTS FOR BUILDING STUFF!! TAKE YOUR TINKER WITHDRAWAL TO THE GARAGE!!

Spoiler:  -- Garage -- (click to show/hide)

Garage:
   3   4-man mini shuttles
         -Have limited sensors
      *MS1 Magpie
      *MS2 Raven
      *MS3 Crow
      *MS4 ʻAlalā Downed at sector 16, subhex 7, salvagable
   4   Rocket bikes
         -Can carry 1 person, maybe two with a little difficulty
      *RB1 Sparrow
      *RB2 Robin
      *RB3 Colibri
      *RB4 Swallow (an African or a European?)
   1   Manual power 4 wheeler
      *MPV Dodo
         -Can carry 2 people
         -Has trailer that can carry another two people and should be able to move around independantly if given a power source.
         -Is equipped with drone thrusters that should allow it to move easily in the flatzone of sector 2
         -Electronically assisted steering
         -Electrically powered
         -Mechanically powered (pedals)
         -Mechanically charging (pedals)
   1   Shuttle ("Mesk's Bucket")
         -Has limited sensors
         -NO STASIS PODS!!
         -Currently outside the base.
         -Can carry the entire team.
         -Can withstand extreme heat and radiation.
         -ONLY VEHICLE THAT CAN CARRY OUR ROBOTIC OVERLORDS!!
         -Kickass paintjob (Flames and skyblue make it look like it's entering the atmosphere. The flames make it go faster.)
   2   Large fuel tanks with vehicle fuel
   1   Large fuel tank with suit fuel
   1   Electrical generator (portable, but has the size and weight of a fridge)
   NONE OF THE VEHICLES CAN CARRY OUR ROBOTIC OVERLORDS!!
   NONE OF THE VEHICLES CAN DETECT DANGEROUS GRAVITY!!
   Landlines that can be used to connect to the base from other sectors, once they are layed.
   Box of automapping drones (about 127 of them)
      -Autonomous rocket drones
      -Remain constantly at a height of about 50 feet (15.25 meters) when active
      -Map via camera and laser range-finder
      -Programmable flight parameters
      -Can be used to find teammates
      -Range of less than a zone
      -Can be used as regular scout eyes
      -Can detect strong gravity seeps (although it may not be able to detect weaker but still dangerous ones)
         -- You can thank Auron Kell [Unholy_Pariah] for doing that and probably saving you from a dive in a gravity seep
   Suit repair tools
   Vehicle repair tools
   Spare parts/scrap/anything else necessary to repair vehicles and create or modify stuff
   Base repair tools (used to seal holes, weld stuff, etc)
   Spray-paint and other paint in many colours
   Stencils that can be used to spraypaint various letters
   A probable missing vehicle spot. Maybe taken by precursors?
      -Probably the vehicle the precursor team leader took.
      -Probably a minishuttle.
   An empty container for the "Anomalous Shard" artifact.

Spoiler:  -- Kitchen -- (click to show/hide)

Kitchen: (why am I writing this? Are you people going to use the microwave as a weapon?)
   Stove
   Microwave
   Oven
   Cutting boards
   Knives
   Sink
   Plates
   Cups
   Garbage Disposal Incinerator
      -!!INCINERATOR!!
   Miscellaneous kitchen equipment
   Miscellaneous cooking and eating utensils (including Spoons!)
   Folding table
   Freezer
      -Nutrient packs good for 5 robots for 400+ days
      -Foods enough to last a year (limited)
         --Pre-cooked (only requires microwaving to reheat it)
         --Pretty good compared to the sword's food
      -Drinks enough to last a year (limited)
         --Massive water containers
         --Booze

Spoiler:  -- Lab (more like "Sample labeling") -- (click to show/hide)

Lab (more like "Sample labeling"):
   Sample containers (seemingly endless supply)
      -Can whithstand heat on the same level as a suit.
      -There are many containers with different properties (large/small, clear/opaque, etc)
   Label maker
      -Labels (seemingly endless supply)
   Limited lab equipment
      -Test results are logged by Simus in a datapad
   Giant vault
      -Ground samples from sector 1 & 3[Flint Westwood] TESTED
         --"Well, your acid testing reveals that your rock samples are a complex blend of things, but that they are porous, igneous rocks  resemble Gabbro but lack olivine in any significant amount. They don't have any unique qualities that set them apart from normal terrestrial stone, although it does hint that the surface here is the result of some sort of volcanic upwelling, since this material only forms underground at high pressures."
            ---Simus
      -Ground samples from rock lice feeding grounds (sector 5) [Simus]
      -Rock digested by rock lice (sector 5) [Simus]
      -Small blueraditite artifacts [Anton Chernozorov, Michael Alexander] TESTED
         --Test results logged in the artifacts section
      -Iron samples from the iron sea (sector 5) [Auron Kell, Michael Alexander] TESTED
         --Probably an Iron-nickel alloy, contains carbon-silicon impurities
      -Dead and dissected rock lice [Simus, Lukas, Miyamoto]
         --Test results logged in the artifacts section

Spoiler:  -- Conference room/planning room -- (click to show/hide)

Conference room/planning room:
   Holoprojector on a large table
      -Currently displaying a base and planet map

Spoiler:  -- Barracks -- (click to show/hide)

Barracks:
   NO LOCKERS!
   Beds
   TV
      -Prerecorded programs (no live programs)
   Bench (made out of boxes by precursors)
   Communal Bathroom?
   Some precursor clothes and datapads
   The cube of death
   Vent
      -Contained a precursor datapad
         --Datapad contained the diary of the expedition leader and last survivor of the previous team.
         --Datapad revealed that the expedition leader explored the crater and uploaded the mapping data to the computer.
         --Datapad revealed that the expedition leader wondered about what happened to the team that built the base.
         --Datapad revealed that the expedition leader wondered about what lay beyond the border.
   Team leaders quarters
      -Biometric lock (Team leader registers biometric data with ALVIN)
      -Bed
      -Desk
         --? Unexplored
      -Computer terminal
         --? Unexplored
      -Bathroom

Spoiler:  -- AI ("ALVIN") -- (click to show/hide)

AI ("ALVIN"):
   Accessed by a secure hatch in CCR's floor
   Deep below ground
   Self sufficient (generators and nutrient tanks)
   Protected by auto lasers (a lot of auto lasers)
   Team leader registers biometric data via control screen
   Limited voice I/O. Interface via text for best results.

Spoiler:  -- Life support -- (click to show/hide)

Life support:
   Accessed by a secure hatch in CCR's floor
   Deep below ground
   Water filtration and renewal
   Air filtration and renewal
   WORKS BY RECYCLING!! Try not to waste air or water. Especially air, since we have drinks in the fridge.
   Generators

Spoiler: --- Recovered Artifacts --- (click to show/hide)

Small Blueraditite ("Blue beads","Anomalous Shard Fragments","Small Coerulus"):
   Origin:
      -Found near the place where the large Blueraditite that came from the radiation orb from zone 6 impacted the infirmary corridor. They were spread both inside and outside the corridor.
      -Also found in the track the radiation orb left in the ground.
   Physical characterisitics:
      -Rice shaped
      -Milky blue semi-transparent
      -Mildly Radioactive (not dangerous to humans)
      -Incredibly hard
         --Nothing happens if they break
      -Mildly Electrically charged
      -Radiation and electrical charge increase when in proximity to other small blueraditites.
   Danger: No danger exhibited yet, proceed with moderate caution.
      -It is unknown whether or not the objects will remain inert. Periodic checks recommended.
   Location:
      -The vault
      -The track left in the ground by the radiation orb
   Test results:
      -"First thing, Their structure is oddly crystalline, considering they're so smooth and ovoid, and you can make out myriad rombohedral structures through the microscope. They aren't terribly dense, but are extremely tough, as your attempts to test their hardness yield not a single scratch or chip. They are mildly radioactive and electro-active, qualities that increase when near other beads; so much so that visible arcing between beads is observed when they are a few inches apart. Flame seems to have no effect on them, besides blacking them with it's residue, which can be wiped off to reveal the unchanged surface."
      -Shooting them with a hand laser caused them to break. Nothing happened when they broke.
      -Did not react to acids or bases.
   Addendum:
      -The nature of the anomaly that produced them implies great capabilities for energy production. Object may fetch a good price.

Large Blueraditite ("The Hot Potato","Anomalous Shard","Large Coerulus"):
   Origin:
      -Found near the place where the radiation orb from zone 6 impacted the infirmary corridor. It was inside the corridor.
   Physical characteristics:
      -Some physical properties can be extrapolated by experimenting with the smaller artifacts of the same kind.
      -Looks like the middle section of a cylinder
         --? The blue radiation orb was a cylinder? The object in the center of zone 6 is a cylinder?
      -Glowing with a blue glow
      -Radioactive (A few minutes of contact are enough to cause radiation poisoning to suited individuals. Synthetics will fare better due to lack of body.)
      -Electrically charged (visible electrical arcing)
      -Hot
      -Vibratring
   Danger: Highly radioactive, proceed with extreme caution.
      -It is unknown whether or not the object will remain inert. Periodic checks recommended.
   Location:
      -Near the zone 6-1 boundary
   Test results:
      -"Thermal reveals that it's hot, which really isn't a surprise considering all the radiation leaking out of the thing. Motion reveals it's either vibrating slightly or it's causing minor distortion in the thin amounts of atmosphere around here. X-ray can't see inside it and the rest are equally unhelpful."
      -"The thing is quite different from the beads. Where as the beads were small, smooth and ovoid this thing is quite large and is partially cylindrical, with a jagged edge on both sides, as though it was broken off from the middle of a larger rod. It doesn't seem crystalline in nature either, though it's hard to tell without a microscope."
      -"You're not really sure what it or the beads could be made of, but whatever they are they're certainly unstable, and contain a rather massive amount of energy. And neither are amorphous, they're both quite rigid in their shape."
      -"One clear application would be a power source, if you could figure out a way to harness it."
         --Simus
   Addendum:
      -Possibly a chunk of the radiation orb that broke off as it flied near the base towards the crater.
      -Possibly the source of small blueraditite. Small blueraditite chunks must have broken off when the large Blueraditite impacted the infirmary corridor.
         --? The object seems to be incredibly tough. How could chunks of it break off?
      -The nature of the anomaly that produced them implies great capabilities for energy production. Object may fetch a good price.
      -The object seems to be still active.

Gel Sack:
   Origin:
      -Created by Flint Westwood by cutting off part of the Gel Sea (Sector 19).
   Physical characteristics:
      -Weighs the same as water.
      -A sack of multicolored fluid contained by a semi-opaque film
      -Properties similar to a non Newtonian fluid (slow to deform, fast to bounce back)
      -Does not bounce
      -Completely vulnerable to laser fire.
      -Film expands overtime
      --? Organic?
   Location:
      -On Flint Westwood (two containers, one has a black tower shard in it and is marked for size changes)
   Test results:
      -"It's about the size of your fist, a sort of purplish, greenish, bluish fluid trapped inside an thin, slightly opaque but mostly transparent film."
      -"It's fairly firm, almost like trying to squeeze fine sand. But it deforms more if you squeeze it more slowly. It returns to it's original shape fairly fast, but doesn't "Spring" back. It weighs a little more then water, you think. It does not bounce."
      -"You shoot the sea. It is scorched but doesn't burn or boil or evaporate. But it does cut through it like butter."
      -"The sacks appear to have sort of spread a bit in their containers; specifically the semi-opaque that acts as a film on the gel itself has spread out and started growing along the walls of the container. It's happened equally in both containers. Other then that, they seem unchanged."
   Addendum:
      -? Could the sea be a living giant single cell organism?
         --? Food?
      -Possible applications as a shock absorbent.

Rock lice ("Rock beetle, Magma beetle"):
   Origin:
      -Simus and Lukas brought it back to base in a box Miyamoto constructed, after capturing it in sector 5. Although it tried to crawl away, it was too slow.
   Physical characteristics:
      -Poses little to no danger to humans
      -Looks like a Woodlouse
      -It's roughly 3-4 feet long, 2 feet wide and 2 tall
      -Weights about 3 tons.
      -Made up of carbon, silicon and ammonia based "organs" hidden deep inside a dense silicon shell.
      -Has a hard exterior shell.
         --Roughly 90% of the creature is this shell.
         --Probably insulation.
         --Gets softer the closer you get to the center
      -Has a softer, porous interior shell
         --? New shell? Gets pushed out and hardens overtime?
      -Hydraulic legs
      -Most organs surround its central gastric system
         --Gastric system seems ruminant
      -Eats and breathes the rock it crawls on. It will try to avoid walking on anything that isn't rock
      -Excretes processed rock
      -Requires high temperature to survive
      -No circulatory system
      -Pressurized organs
   Location:
      -Dissected into multiple pieces in the lab
   Test results:
      -See alien autopsies section
   Addendum:
      -Shell has possible applications as armor
      -A live one would probably fetch a lot of tokens.
         --Needs specialized environment to survive
         --Requires high temperature
         --Eats and breathes the rock it crawls on.
         --Excretes processed rock.
         --Probably best to capture one near the end of the mission in order to maximize survival chances.

Liquid crystal (?name):
   Origin:
      -Bishop took a sample from the frozen crystalline sea of sector 16 after Flint dug a hole deep enough to reach the liquid underneath.
   Physical properties:
      -Looks like a bright aquamarine fluid.
      -Near-instantly solidifies upon contact with other substances
         --? Does this also happen in vacuum?
         --? Any way to reverse the process?
         --? Does this change the chemical structure of the crystal?
      -Very hard when in its solid form
      -Crystals do not cling to objects that touch them when they solidify.
   Location:
      -On bishop
   Addendum:
      -Possible applications as a weapon, in construction and in defense.

Spoiler: --- Alien Autopsies --- (click to show/hide)

"You scan the lice with your patented pirate vision. Well, it weighs a lot. 3 tons or around there. And it's shell is incredibly dense, made mostly of silicon and other inorganic elements. The "living" part of the creature is pretty much just a lump of strangely configured carbon, silicon and ammonia based "organs" hidden deep in the shell. From what you can tell it doesn't breath or eat; more like it does both at the same time, scrapping off the top layer of the stone it travels over, processing it for nutrients and then excreting the remaining mass."
"It's roughly 3-4 feet long, 2 feet wide and 2 tall"
"You take a sample from the creature's shell, drilling in roughly 10 cm. You don't hit anything "fleshy", you just get a solid chuck of shell. 'The thing seems to be like, 90% shell...Insulation, I suppose.' It's incredibly heavy even in these small amounts; heavier then solid lead by the feel of it. "
"Microscope reveals a very dense crystalline formation, the sort of thing you'd expect more in a pure metal sample then something organic and is cubic.
The density is very high, about 19 grams per cm squared, though samples from different depths in the shell yield slightly different densities, with the outer shell being the most dense.
It is extremely hard, around an 8 on the Mohs scale, though the outer shell is again harder then samples from deeper in.
It emits neither heat nor radiation, nor does it have an electrical charge.
The flame you have on hand is incapable of burning the sample and none of the subsequent measurements seem to have changed from their originals."
"Could the shell could be adapted into armor? Perhaps. It would be very heavy, like wearing a tungsten brick, but it would probably be fairly protective. Though not amazingly so, compared to high tech armors. Then again, in a mk I, most people would probably be happy for a sheet of plate glass to hide behind."
"You help mesk shave off parts of the shell, however, something comes up as you reach deeper into the shell then sample section. You abruptly hit what seems to be a new layer of shell. It's not like the rest of the shell. It's extremely porous and fragile, like freeze dryed sponge."
"After taking a sample of the new tissue Simus and Mesk continue the autopsy, cutting until they reach what could be called flesh. It's a grayish, black speckled mass of organs surrounding a central gastric system; all built on a giant bed of what appears to be organic hydraulics that drive the legs."
"The gastric system seems almost ruminant in design, with several stomach like organs in succession. The first one in the series is quite swollen, like a filled water balloon."
"Hmm. The organs are almost all connected to the main intestinal track that runs through the body. Chances are that they all do something to the stone that the creature is bringing in; though exactly what each organ does you can't tell from just looking. However, you would guess that these organs; the ones not attached to the gastric system, were something to do with either controlling the thing or maintaining the other organs. Hard to tell."
"What you can tell from poking is that several of the organs are either very firm or highly pressurized. Everything is made of a very dark colored fleshy substance with a gritty feel to it. There seems to be no circulatory system, rather the organs seem to just be suspended in a sort of blackish sludge. You can't really learn much more without cutting into the organs."

Spoiler: --- Planned/Proposed actions/experiments --- (click to show/hide)

Mapping drone rover:
   A mapping drone converted for ground based operation.
   
Fast zone mapping drone:
   Fitting a drone with a timer and some advanced programming should allow it to explore the fast zone by crossing the border without accelerating. (or you can just drop the timer altogehter and just have it shutdown its rockets while crossing the border)
   
Fast zone manipulator experiment:
   Are manipulators affected by the fast zone (or any other anomalous motion zone?)
   
Spray gun:
   Used for finding anomalies by spraying dust or other particles.
   
Drone sensors:
   Fitting vehicles or teammates with a drone's sensors so that they can detect anomalies. (Drone goggles?)
   
Shadow zone experiment:
   Shine light to the shadows.
   
Drone anomaly sensor upgrade:
   Attach a rock thrower or similar device onto drones (single use is the simplest, but multiple use would be best), so that they can detect and experiment with anomalies. Both AUX (for the trigger and detection program) and HAN (for the thrower itself) skill required for the conversion.
   
Mirror blindness experiment:
   Does mirror blindness persist when viewed from different roboeyes or vision modes? (robots have multiple cameras.) What about cameras or drones?
   
Radiation and electrical shielding:
   Something that will allow someone to approach the big blue object of sector 6. Rubber is a good insulator and frozen water is good radiation shielding. Maybe a big chunk of ice surrounded by a large layer of plastic and a grounding rod pushed on top of the MPV?

Crane:
   Something that can be used to move medium sized objects from afar.
   
Abduction pod:
   Something that can be used to store abducted indegenous creatures safely while keeping them alive or at least intact (not exploded or decomposed).
   
Automated MPV:
   By installing a transmitter and connecting it to the MPV's controls (maybe add a few actuators to turn the wheel if it doesn't have electronic steering) it can be converted into an automated vehicle that can haul goods and people without the need for a driver.
   
Rock Beetle Abduction:
   Exactly what it says on the tin.
   
"Anomalous Shard" recovery:
   Recover and store the anomalous shard artifact. Should be performed by either Miyamoto or Lukas. The object should either be stored in the vault, or buried somewhere outside the base.
   
Stop zone experiment:
   Look through the stop zone either towards the base or towards the sky. What we see will probably tell us exactly how slow the light travels there, and how old the light from there is.

Determine whether or not the area around the skylights is safe: COMPLETE!
   Send a drone flying low, or even better, a drone at the end of a long stick held by a flying individual.
   RESULTS:
      As long as you don't fly into them, the skylights are safe

Test the flatzone ground:
   The flatzone's energy absorbent properties could help create armor against directed energy weapons. Should take a sample if possible. Dig near the flatzone. How deep does it go?

Test sample containers for heat protection:
   Will putting something in a heat resistant sample container protect it from the heat of the volcanic zone? Putting some food in a container and watching if and how fast it melts is a good test.

Motion anomaly comm cable:
   Lay a comm cable through the safe zone of the motion anomaly so that the base can be easily contacted by people behind it.

Check drones for legs:
   Do the drones have legs like scouteyes?

Electrical Insulation:
   Electrical insulation is necessary for movement through the electrically active zone (zone 14).

Spoiler: --- Notable anomalous events --- (click to show/hide)

Zone Storm(Event):
   Description: Anomalies seeping from their zone of origin into other zones, sometimes threatening the base. (info gained by precursors)
   Quote: "...the difference between the zones might not be survivable..."
      -Precursor Expedition Leader
   Danger: Extremely dangerous.

Radiation orb(Event):
   Origin: Sector 6 anomaly, bright blue object
   Trigger: Automapping drone approaching the object. Footage from the precursor cameras revealed that the phenomenon can also occur naturally or at least without human intervention. (Maybe a micrometeorite impact is enough to trigger it?)
   Drone status: Evaporated by lightning coming from the blue object.
   Description: Smaller blue object that broke off from the large blue object in the center of the anomaly. Radioactive and electrically charged. Moved towards the Precursor Crusher after creation.
   Danger: !!EXTREMELY DANGEROUS!! The object will cause damage to electronics and radiation poisoning. Shutting down all equipment and taking shelter from the radiation and static charges should keep you safe.
   Aftermath: Team members taking cover in the AI core got irradiated. Hull breach caused by the "Anomalous shard" artifact. Unknown blue objects appeared near the hull breach. Full description in the Useful links section, under the name "Bluerad Artifact" or something like that. A track/ditch was molten to the ground from sector 6 to the crater. The track was covered in Small Blueraditite shards.
   Addendum: A zone storm event.

Shimmer-Vibrate Event:
   Location: Black domes, sector 17 & 16
   Timing: Non-periodical, minimum time between events: 2 minutes
   Description: The domes all sort of shimmer and vibrate a little. Anything inside the dark area of the domes seems to simply cease to exist.
   Danger: Dangerous. Danger is avoidable provided the timing information provided above is used.

Sometimes time seems to pass incredibly fast for some people. Other times people seem to stand around doing nothing for a long time.

Spoiler: --- Useful links --- (click to show/hide)

Giggling zone 2(It hurts): http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=106279.msg4228699#msg4228699
Black Domes 1/Giggling zone 3(Deaf?)/Motion anomaly experiments 1/Rock Lice Capture: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=106279.msg4232146#msg4232146
Black Domes 2/Giggling zone 4 (Deaf)/Motion anomaly experiments 2/Rock lice Captured: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=106279.msg4234872#msg4234872
Black Domes 3/Medevac/Return from the bug hunt: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=106279.msg4237149#msg4237149
Black Domes 4/Salt plains 1/Rock lice tests 1: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=106279.msg4238308#msg4238308
Black Domes 5/Salt plains 2/Rock lice tests 2: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=106279.msg4241004#msg4241004
Black Domes 6 (Shimmer Vibrate event)/Giggling victims medical examination: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=106279.13935
Black Domes 7 / Crash site 1: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=106279.msg4247130#msg4247130
Crash site 2: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=106279.msg4247130#msg4247130
Crash site 3/ Salt plains 3: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=106279.msg4250655#msg4250655
Cave 1/ Black domes 8 / Salt plains 4 / Crash site 4: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=106279.msg4251698#msg4251698
Black Domes 9 (Teleportation) / Rock lice tests 2 / Cave 2: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=106279.msg4254511#msg4254511
Black Domes 10 (SV investigation) / Rock lice tests 3 / Orange lake 1: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=106279.msg4256611#msg4256611
Black Domes 11 (Random destination) / Rock lice tests 4 / Orange lake 2 / Black rods 1 (vision modes): http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=106279.msg4260043#msg4260043
Crash site 5 / Orange lake 3 (rough seas) / Black rods 2: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=106279.msg4262148#msg4262148
Orange lake 4 (rod formation)/Rock lice tests 5:http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=106279.msg4264670#msg4264670

Links from before the previous notes post are at the previous post.

((If you have any suggestions/comments/corrections, please PM those to me.))

[Tavik Toth]

"Must be something important in sector 9. We need to go around or find a way to block the sounds.."

Suggest course of action.

[Remalle]

Paint the shuttle a nice deep blue, paint red and yellow flames over the front sweeping back so it looks like the shuttle is entering atmosphere and burning up.

[Zako]

Blue Team

Get everyone up and moving toward zone 17, mapping and testing the ground infront of us all the way.

[Toaster]

Tame Green

((NOPE))

"Brothers, we must retreat!  Algis, protect us!"

GTFO to the edge of the zone until the madnes stops.  Go around the edge toward 9.  Stop and rest if we need to.

[kisame12794]

"SHIT!"

Get the fuck out of there! Head back to the edge of the zone.

[Radio Controlled]

Try to calculate/estimate how much time we'll have left (in-game time) once we've finished exploring all our bighexes, going from our current rate of exploration, and assuming we continue with 2 exploration teams.

[Unholy_Pariah]

flee to the previous zone, try using my bat chip to play a tone over the radio to drown out the giggling.

Green

[Doomblade187]

Head back to consolidate and drop offf any gear I don't need, then refuel as needed and depart, intending to go around the lava zone the long way.

"Is it fine with you guys if I head around the molten iron lake the long way?"