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[Nirur Torir]

B. It shouldn't take much time, allowing us to fall back on C if it doesn't work. Unless the techs are incompetent, there shouldn't be any threat to us.

[Happerry]

And such is the cunning of the techs that the explosion not only takes one pillar down, but two, forming a nice wide bridge. Driving on, you soon reach the point. After some confusion, you realize it is coming from the underground! The techs are soon talking about drilling their way down, but that will probably take most of the rest of the day. There is also the idea of using mining explosives, but that might well ruin what you search for... it is faster though.

A. Drill
B. Use explosives.

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Got a nice 10 from a d10 for that pillar roll. And finally got my laptop working, so now have my notes back... And remembered this.

Hope people are still interested.

[Roboboy33]

Drill. we dont want to damage them.

[Happerry]

And so they drill it out, taking most of the rest of the day do to problems with the space drills, but eventually they dig out a metallic crystal sphere, that glistens with a fading inner light. The techs say it is the source of the signal, but seems to be loosing power. Some of them suggest taking it back to earth right now, hopefully before it looses all power, but other say it will loose all power before you can go home, so you should check out the martian landing sites.

Do you
A. Go to earth
b. Decide to study mars for future colonies
or C. Something else?

[Nirur Torir]

A. The loss of a few days and some expensive space fuel is nothing compared with the potential scientific gains.

Unless something interesting happened on Earth, we should probably come back after resupplying and study the first colony site.

[Roboboy33]

A,

do we have some kind of shuttle that can send it over to earth so we can stay and search mars?

[Ukrainian Ranger]

4 Military Crew... with swords, as their guns do not work in this atmosphere

modern firearms work fine in oxygenless atmosphere or vacuum


B, let's now our waste time

[Happerry]

modern firearms work fine in oxygenless atmosphere or vacuum

B, let's now our waste time

Alright, fine. it's because in this low gravity the recoil will knock you head over heels.

do we have some kind of shuttle that can send it over to earth so we can stay and search mars?

Check the ship inventory, but no. You have shuttles, but only one spacedrive.
And so, relic claimed, you make your way back to earth orbit, relic in the cargo bay. The relic is almost completely depowered when you enter into orbit, but a faint charge is left. It is soon taking out of your hands, and vanishes into the black labs of the goverments.

Still, who knows what they may find?

Since both posts that voted for A wanted to come back, you promptly drive back to martian orbit. While you were at earth, you were requested to see if you could do a survey of the planet as well, at least a brief one. Sadly the research was not done yet.

A: Land at site 1
B: Land at site 2
D: Spend a few days doing a full planet survey.
C: Leave orbit and go somewhere else

The Revolution has 14/15 days worth of supplies on board
It has a full crew
It is at Earth Orbit

Research started on Space Defense. 5/x days have gone past.

[Nirur Torir]

D. We might find a better colony site, and more scientific sites.

Edit: Wait wait, I should have seen it sooner. A probably-artificial sphere that gave off a brief yet powerful signal? That's clearly a beacon. The survey can wait, in case one of the scientific sites is 'waking up.' Retain military readiness. Prepare for first contact with unknown entities and hope they're friendly.

B. Examining the sites should go faster then the survey, and I feel like they're more likely to result in contact.

[Happerry]

As a note, each site will take about a day to survey. You can also queue up orders if you want, like "Look at each site" and I'll only hit the pause and options button when something happens. Each site you look at gives you bonuses for the choices of colony sites and adds to your research of colonizing whenever you bring the data back. The more data from a single planet, the less effective it is. Of course, right now you can only land on planets with actual surfaces to survey sites....

[Nirur Torir]

Then I vote: B, A, D. If we don't find anything else to do at Mars, let's return Earth when we're done. (We could head to the asteroid belt afterwords, but we'd only have a few days to survey it, and would waste more time heading back for resupply then we'd save.)

[Happerry]

And so the landers land as you start a space survey. It goes surprisingly fast as your scientists show their enthusiasm in being the first to set foot on the planet! Indeed, their enthusiasm is such that they do a number of extra scans. One of which that just barely detects a strange signal, similar to that of the beacon! And in tracking it down, they find yet another source of the same signal! Sadly, it's point of origin is proving most illusive...

Still now, what will you do?

A. Land a team at site 1
B. Attempt to find the second signals source
C. A and B at the same time, but rendering your landing team out of contact with your ship... you'll also have to decide if you stay on the ship or go with the team.
D. Return to earth and report this.
E. Something else?

[Nirur Torir]

Shouldn't they move onto a random tech with the extra RP? It's not as though we're paying them, and we're likely to be out of contact for longer periods of time until we invent better communications technology. I'd feel silly if we returned a few days after leaving. "Well boss, we found something. You know that brief signal from the thing we found? It was like that. Want us to go back and investigate while hoping it's still going, or can we stick around here for a few days? Oh, yeah, please get the scientists to study space guns. We need space guns because I'm crazy paranoid."

I vote C. We'll stay with the ship. If anything needs to be investigated, the landing team will proceed cautiously.

Did we find the first signal's source?

[Happerry]

Shouldn't they move onto a random tech with the extra RP? It's not as though we're paying them, and we're likely to be out of contact for longer periods of time until we invent better communications technology. I'd feel silly if we returned a few days after leaving. "Well boss, we found something. You know that brief signal from the thing we found? It was like that. Want us to go back and investigate while hoping it's still going, or can we stick around here for a few days? Oh, yeah, please get the scientists to study space guns. We need space guns because I'm crazy paranoid."

I vote C. We'll stay with the ship. If anything needs to be investigated, the landing team will proceed cautiously.

Did we find the first signal's source?

They will, but it will be random. It also might not be a spacetech if the army decides that you aren't using the labs and they need something done. Or some other government group. If you want to make sure that they research good things, you either need to handhold them or establish your own agencies labs without borrowing other peoples. You're currently borrowing other people's labs, like NASA's, instead of running your own. If you had your own labs you could have researched the beacon, for example, there instead of having the spies walk off with it.  And either way, you won't know what they did until you go home. I do, however, note that until you bring your data home they can not start at researching the "Put bases on other planets" tech. That was what the planet survey and looking at the potential colony sites was for.

And yes, you did. Site 1 is that signal's source.

[Nirur Torir]

Did we learn anything about the signal?