To the Doc:[/b]Those are the planetoids that travel in straight lines from one jump point to the next, right? What was Origin then? Some Star System full of planetoids? Some kind of machine? You've been studying materials found on these planetoids, right? Do you think that tech is also infected by this new threat? How do you "get better" from death? Would my team be able to do this as well?
Hmm, looks like we have a universe that needs further exploration.
Launch Phase two probe into 0, 9, 0 (the oddly livable enclosed space one). Check how big the enclosed space is, and what kind of material the enclosure seems to be made of. Record everything we can, and have drone robots explore the enclosure, if it is a reasonable size to do so in. Leave them there for long enough to accomplish that if it can be done within a day. Otherwise, record what is there and have the probe return in an hour.
Can we launch multiple probes before recalling one? If, say, we were to launch a drone into pink slime land , have it move 100 meters, then launch a second one, and have them attempt to communicate with each other, would that be viable, or would we have to launch them together?
Edit: Launch phase one Probes into
1, 0, +/-1;
1, +/-1, 0;
0, 1, +/-1;
0, -1, +/-1;
-1, 0, +/-1;
-1, +/-1, 0
"You ask a lot of questions."
The enclosed one appears to be almost cave like in construction, though the caves appear to be of frankly unreasonable sizes. We're talking rooms that are wider than the circumference of the earth. Gravity seems erratic; in the empty "air" of the cave it's only a fraction of what it is on the surface, as though the contours of the cave follow some kind of invisible pattern of higher gravity. Samples of the surface reveal it to be fairly mundane though very densely packed stone of a variety of types. There's no signs of life, even on a microbial level.
You could try that.
Ugh, you're really loading me up here, buddy.
Null. Probe returns frozen and badly damaged. It looks as though it went through a blender. Unsettlingly, the frost that has completely covered the thing appears to take the shape of otherworldly faces as it melts. As per why you, and indeed everyone that looks at it, assumes these...things...are faces, you can't explain.
1,1,0 's probe returns violently, falling from several feet in the air onto the ground, breaking into pieces like rotten wood as it does. It appears to have rusted badly, turning greenish brown and partially dissolving. The rust like substance spreads from the probe to the ground the instant it makes contact and begins to expand outward. In the peripherals of the camera feed you can see the testing room's blast doors slam shut before nozzles spray flame into the room. For several long seconds all you can see is fire, and then the camera cuts out. Somewhere, far away, you feel something rumble and the monitors read "Test Room 1 Lost."
A few minutes later another message pops up
"Verified: Eradication of infectious entity. Test Room 2 Preparing"
Hey, people not doing anything active, wanna play with something?
Does it involve murder?
It might. Depends on how bad their luck is and how smart they are.
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