SIR! SIR! ORBIT ADMIRAL! The scouts have come back with their report, and I have used their findings with the 20 mile radius of our radar scanners to present a passable assessment of our surroundings.
- This location is facinating. The strange yellow bars are actually solar panels which extend to cover the whole of 1's area. Presumably this was to make use of the solar energy in the planet's short, but blisteringly hot Summer. Secondly, it would shade the underground reservoir from evaporating in the heat (the reservoir is now heavily polluted and swarming with Ruin Roaches.
- This is the largest of the various impact spots, it goes incredibly deep and was presumably caused by a passing meteor shower, or industrial explosion.
- This structure is incredible. It is a gigantic glass-like dome, but the internal structure of the glass allows light through, but not heat! It seems this was a refuge for the population during the short but brutal summers. NOTE: should we need to stay here for an extended time, I believe we could hook up our water pumps to the meteor damaged area and fill the dome with water for a larger base of operations.
- I believe this used to be a green area, now charred and ruined. It was, however, the only flat area for hundreds of miles to mount a landing.
- The only patch of green on the entire planet. It seems the soil is so rich that the plants grow incredibly hardy and can cope with the conditions. The area is flanked with great obelisks which seem to have names engraved, or at least unique glyphs.
- This place is incredible. At first we thought it was some sort of religious building, it has alters and statues, but it appears to be a library, a vast, magnificent collection of texts. From a section that seemed to be focused on children's literature, we have gathered a basic understanding of the language. Our final conclusion is that it is in-fact a religious building, worshiping knowledge rather than a deity.
- Now, try to understand this from a different culture's view. Using our basic knowledge of the language, we believe this building is a factory, used to produce liquid energy and fertiliser. I believe they liquidised their dead. It seems they held no sanctity in death whatsoever, to them a carcass was simply an inanimate object. It seems the primary focus of this corpse-crusher was to enrich the soil of 5, for produce. It's elegant if you think about it...
- We have literally no idea what this place was supposed to be. It doesn't even have a door.
Log Keeper's Evaluation: The following translation relates to a plaque found at the entrance to the ""Wequildereeb Plant"" (location 7 on the local map).Translated into Number form:
23E 89E 6E_ 18 584 E801 46 59 014
1 190 03 ED 18
467 E7 4D2 1E6_ |1728 01 4 6 03 0 48 41 23 4
4D 145E
G_ 145E 1234567890E_ 48D 6E_ D 7 4 48E D7 07 7 D E E D 7
Translated into English:
Welcome, New Worker, to the Weqildereeb Plant! Here, we power the shields that keep the city-states safe from constant asteroid showers!
This Tablet is here as an instructional guide, map, and tour of the facilities.
Thanks to the incessent waste of those damned clerics, the Ryneesol, in 12E 1728, all of the world's natural oil reserves were depleted. While recent adventures into the aether have returned some valuable ores back to us, we must seek alternative methods of fuel for the time being.
This is where you come in! As we Antediluvans are keenly attuned to the power and wishes of The Twelve, it is possible to use our very own bodies as fuel! The Weqildereeb Plant is capable of turning our dead into fuel to sustain the next generation. Death to fuel life, life to fuel death. As a bonus, it also deals with terminal littering!
[The rest of the tablet has been turnt to slag.]
Depichering Tools:
1 - Earth
2 - Water
3 - Air
4 - Fire
5 - Light
6 - Darkness
7 - Death
8 - Gravity
9 - Time
0 - Aether
E - Life
D - Entropy
2E - Encounter, 23E - Friendly Encounter
9E - Young, 8E - Slave, 89E - Young Slave
6E_ - Weqildereeb Plant (Undermark dictates proper name)
18 - Here
48 - Powered Shield, 548 - Electrically Powered Shield
E8 - Tribe, E80 - Expansive Tribe, E801 - City
46 - No Danger
59 - Repeat
01 - Space Rock/World, 014 - Burning Space Rock
1 - This
19 - Writing, 190 - Tablet
03 - Direction/Travel
ED - You
67 - Waste, 467 - Fuel Waste
E7 - Evil
4D2 - Skill in Superior (Worship)
1E6_ - Ryneesol (Proper name)
|1728 - 1728 (The number)
4 - Fuel
0 - Space, Expanse
48 - Enslave
41 - Powerstone
23 - Find
4D - Skill
145E - Enchant, Insert
G_ Antediluvian
1234567890E_ - The Twelve (Yes, only 11, we know - Why is that?)
48D - Consume
D - Corrupt, Transform
48E - Birth
D7 - Ends
07 - Corpse Mound/Big corpse