X.1 - Alterin Base Report
Alterin Base Camp on formerly multi-inhabited planet designation 'Ruinos', month 2 report.
Summarizer: Head of Technical Research Wintarian (See section delta)
ALPHA
New POI: Floating Island.
Status: Explored, except for Fielded Door which remains unbreached. Certainly not for lack of trying. Considering the lack of access ports elsewhere on the structure after thorough examination by scoutcraft, anything of importance is likely in there. The full list of attempted opening trials is in the attachments for perusal.
New POI: 'Wishing Well'
Status: Located after unknown crystal-based meteoroid cratered on top of it, possibly integrated into it. Ongoing investigation.
Current output: Two (2) Solid stone, single-piece greatswords of significant length. Hilts are inset with either gem or crystal with no tool marks to indicate carving settings for them, as if the shining pieces was simply there when sword materialized/was carved/other possibilities.
BETA
Existing artifacts that have had investigations completed:
'Lunar Steel' (appears to simply be a form of steel that glows in moonlight, nothing more), Technological artifact.
'Mirror of Avengeance and Ruined Tea' (Yes, that name extension is necessary, despite the seeming un-relation of the two. All tea-based drinks brought in front of it have either become too hot to drink or too cold to be palatable, to the distinct and loud complaints of the new investigation team. Mirror continues to be a source of consternation and work for the medical crew.), Arcane item.
'Tank of Healing' (Movement systems had been rebuilt to use repairable tech, upon using a second such tank to test the effect of repairs movement systems were blown up on contact with the nanotech-laden shell and soon after regenerated previous unrepairable but now working movement systems. We now have two vehicles that repair others by partially destroying their intended target and regenerating it.), Technological vehicle.
'Cup of Dude' (Formerly known as the Cup of Doom. Previous scientist was, like, overreacting to the lack of, like, culture it can temporarily make, dude.), Arcane item.
'Throne of Needs' (Renamed and dismantled after causing base-wide brawl over who would go out with a particular individual who broke a quarantine seal to sit it in it. They are now in isolation until we are sure all the effects have cleared, and their pay has been docked to cover base repairs. Also, we will need a disenchanting specialist to take care of resulting still-enchanted scrap), former arcane item.
'And now a ship' (Appears to either convert any attached vehicle into a warship until removed (watercraft into naval warships, ground vehicles into airborne warships, aircraft into flying dreadnoughts specifically, and atmospheric-capable spacecraft into transforming aerospace warships) or if not attached to any form of vehicle, makes people insist on adding 'And you are now a ship' or variants to the end of every sentence within about 4 meters of it.), Enchanted cube.
'Anti-bomb' (Original experiment was correct: Item eats explosions and all side effects and converts the force into the original explosive used, but slightly weaker. Repeated uses eventually will not return a result and instead produce a firework out of nowhere, absorption halts until firework is used. Resulting firework is always exactly the same size but scales in impressiveness with the variety of elements consumed since previous firework), Technological artifact.
GAMMA
See attachments. I can't repeat Commander Wholo's long and rambling requisitions report that would take half an hour to read through with any degree of sense if I tried.
DELTA
Casualties:
Entire base (both minor and major injuries from Throne of Needs-based jealousy attack), mostly recovered. Theres a few broken bones left to keep healing.
Commander Wholo - KIA by raging, likely former-nobility physical spirit within floating island throne room. Will attempt to recover body once spirit has calmed back down, may take some time. (already been a week and it shows no sign of not attempting to breach the hastily-reinforced doorway)
A number of AI-driven heavily armored transport vehicles (disabled either due to heavy interference dissolving link to base or destroyed by hostile interference of the other kind.)
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Head of Technical Research (and acting Commander) Wintarian lets out a very long sigh at the end of the (first four sections of) report finally arriving. How did the previous commander manage to get these done on time with how much he crammed into them and how much there was to do besides write these damn things? It took long enough to collect all of the reports and results and spreadsheets to review, much less include! There was still Blann knows how many more artifacts to confirm research on, plus the exploration reports, and all sorts of things that aren't quite relevant to investigating all the old and mostly-ruined tech scattered around the planet, and it'd all be easier if you could just dump this on the other Heads.
But no, there had to be a 'vote to determine acting commander' because Wholo was too long-winded and seemingly-unbeatable in combat for anyone to bother making a proper chain of succession in case he actually died. What it actually was was picking straws in a secret meeting and passing it off as a vote so it didn't sound like they were as disorganized as the rest of the base was without him.
As it gets dark, he gets a call asking where Ro and Das currently are and why they haven't responded to calls, and sighs again. Loudly. Tomorrow is gonna be a long day, isn't it.
Summarizer: Head of Technical Research Wintarian (See section delta)
ALPHA
New POI: Floating Island.
Status: Explored, except for Fielded Door which remains unbreached. Certainly not for lack of trying. Considering the lack of access ports elsewhere on the structure after thorough examination by scoutcraft, anything of importance is likely in there. The full list of attempted opening trials is in the attachments for perusal.
New POI: 'Wishing Well'
Status: Located after unknown crystal-based meteoroid cratered on top of it, possibly integrated into it. Ongoing investigation.
Current output: Two (2) Solid stone, single-piece greatswords of significant length. Hilts are inset with either gem or crystal with no tool marks to indicate carving settings for them, as if the shining pieces was simply there when sword materialized/was carved/other possibilities.
BETA
Existing artifacts that have had investigations completed:
'Lunar Steel' (appears to simply be a form of steel that glows in moonlight, nothing more), Technological artifact.
'Mirror of Avengeance and Ruined Tea' (Yes, that name extension is necessary, despite the seeming un-relation of the two. All tea-based drinks brought in front of it have either become too hot to drink or too cold to be palatable, to the distinct and loud complaints of the new investigation team. Mirror continues to be a source of consternation and work for the medical crew.), Arcane item.
'Tank of Healing' (Movement systems had been rebuilt to use repairable tech, upon using a second such tank to test the effect of repairs movement systems were blown up on contact with the nanotech-laden shell and soon after regenerated previous unrepairable but now working movement systems. We now have two vehicles that repair others by partially destroying their intended target and regenerating it.), Technological vehicle.
'Cup of Dude' (Formerly known as the Cup of Doom. Previous scientist was, like, overreacting to the lack of, like, culture it can temporarily make, dude.), Arcane item.
'Throne of Needs' (Renamed and dismantled after causing base-wide brawl over who would go out with a particular individual who broke a quarantine seal to sit it in it. They are now in isolation until we are sure all the effects have cleared, and their pay has been docked to cover base repairs. Also, we will need a disenchanting specialist to take care of resulting still-enchanted scrap), former arcane item.
'And now a ship' (Appears to either convert any attached vehicle into a warship until removed (watercraft into naval warships, ground vehicles into airborne warships, aircraft into flying dreadnoughts specifically, and atmospheric-capable spacecraft into transforming aerospace warships) or if not attached to any form of vehicle, makes people insist on adding 'And you are now a ship' or variants to the end of every sentence within about 4 meters of it.), Enchanted cube.
'Anti-bomb' (Original experiment was correct: Item eats explosions and all side effects and converts the force into the original explosive used, but slightly weaker. Repeated uses eventually will not return a result and instead produce a firework out of nowhere, absorption halts until firework is used. Resulting firework is always exactly the same size but scales in impressiveness with the variety of elements consumed since previous firework), Technological artifact.
GAMMA
See attachments. I can't repeat Commander Wholo's long and rambling requisitions report that would take half an hour to read through with any degree of sense if I tried.
DELTA
Casualties:
Entire base (both minor and major injuries from Throne of Needs-based jealousy attack), mostly recovered. Theres a few broken bones left to keep healing.
Commander Wholo - KIA by raging, likely former-nobility physical spirit within floating island throne room. Will attempt to recover body once spirit has calmed back down, may take some time. (already been a week and it shows no sign of not attempting to breach the hastily-reinforced doorway)
A number of AI-driven heavily armored transport vehicles (disabled either due to heavy interference dissolving link to base or destroyed by hostile interference of the other kind.)
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Head of Technical Research (and acting Commander) Wintarian lets out a very long sigh at the end of the (first four sections of) report finally arriving. How did the previous commander manage to get these done on time with how much he crammed into them and how much there was to do besides write these damn things? It took long enough to collect all of the reports and results and spreadsheets to review, much less include! There was still Blann knows how many more artifacts to confirm research on, plus the exploration reports, and all sorts of things that aren't quite relevant to investigating all the old and mostly-ruined tech scattered around the planet, and it'd all be easier if you could just dump this on the other Heads.
But no, there had to be a 'vote to determine acting commander' because Wholo was too long-winded and seemingly-unbeatable in combat for anyone to bother making a proper chain of succession in case he actually died. What it actually was was picking straws in a secret meeting and passing it off as a vote so it didn't sound like they were as disorganized as the rest of the base was without him.
As it gets dark, he gets a call asking where Ro and Das currently are and why they haven't responded to calls, and sighs again. Loudly. Tomorrow is gonna be a long day, isn't it.
