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As L3Th3 predicted, Mnemosyne reaches the found planet on the 15th. The first view of the planet is both awe-inspiring and perplexing; a world fractured into countless floating landmasses, orbiting a radiant core that pulses like a living heart. The core's golden-red light casts shifting hues across the fragments, where forests cling to jagged cliffs and rivers spill into the void in endless waterfalls. Despite the chaotic appearance, the ship's sensors confirm the presence of a breathable atmosphere, stable temperatures, and signs of life. Strange energy readings does emanate from the core, while metallic signatures suggest ancient remnants of advanced structures scattered across the fragments.
The ship's cameras capture even more details - bioluminescent foliage shimmering under the core's light, clouds of mist swirling between fragments, and glimpses of winged creatures darting through the open air. L3TH3's systems report unstable yet navigable conditions for a shuttle, but urges caution while exploring.
When descending from the Mnemosyne, the landing shuttle's autopilot will navigate the surreal landscape of floating islands. The fragments are larger on the outside, breaking into smaller pieces the closer to the core they are, and reveals alien forests, glowing moss, and grassy plains. Here and there, vines stretch like natural bridges between landmasses, making the navigation a bit rough without an experienced pilot. Weaving through shifting gravitational forces, the shuttle's engines hum as it adjusts to the planet's gravity.
As the shuttle nears the landing zone - a stable plateau near the edge of a larger fragment - the core looms in the distance, its pulsating glow bathing the surface in warm light. The shuttle's landing gear extends with a soft hiss, touching down gently on the alien soil. The engines wind down, leaving only the faint heartbeat of the core and the distant sound of wind rushing through the fragmented terrain. The planet waits, silent and enigmatic, for the first steps of exploration.
Welcome to AG-001!
In the spirit of world-building... here is one! Characters are welcome to create and build this planet within the frame of the setting. Creatures, flora, anything non-sapient. In the end, it will not be a good planet to create a settlement on, but markers to survey it will be added.
On the 22nd, the Mnemosyne will continue the journey.
The ship's cameras capture even more details - bioluminescent foliage shimmering under the core's light, clouds of mist swirling between fragments, and glimpses of winged creatures darting through the open air. L3TH3's systems report unstable yet navigable conditions for a shuttle, but urges caution while exploring.
When descending from the Mnemosyne, the landing shuttle's autopilot will navigate the surreal landscape of floating islands. The fragments are larger on the outside, breaking into smaller pieces the closer to the core they are, and reveals alien forests, glowing moss, and grassy plains. Here and there, vines stretch like natural bridges between landmasses, making the navigation a bit rough without an experienced pilot. Weaving through shifting gravitational forces, the shuttle's engines hum as it adjusts to the planet's gravity.
As the shuttle nears the landing zone - a stable plateau near the edge of a larger fragment - the core looms in the distance, its pulsating glow bathing the surface in warm light. The shuttle's landing gear extends with a soft hiss, touching down gently on the alien soil. The engines wind down, leaving only the faint heartbeat of the core and the distant sound of wind rushing through the fragmented terrain. The planet waits, silent and enigmatic, for the first steps of exploration.
Welcome to AG-001!
In the spirit of world-building... here is one! Characters are welcome to create and build this planet within the frame of the setting. Creatures, flora, anything non-sapient. In the end, it will not be a good planet to create a settlement on, but markers to survey it will be added.
On the 22nd, the Mnemosyne will continue the journey.
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Fuck you.
[ And here he'd thought for a minute they were getting along. If they were back on the ship he'd stop in his tracks, turn around, and give Rin a piece of his mind. They can't stop here, though. They have to keep moving.
(And, weirdly, he doesn't really want to stop and cuss Rin out. The edge has been taken off his anger, and it's really bizarre. Later, when he thinks over this whole adventure again, he'll wonder about that. Now, with a couple fairies humming after them, all Wolfwood does is stomp through the underbrush, heading for the rocky area just to the east. There shouldn't be any more bugs there -- less foliage means less bugs, right? -- and there's good visibility for any more approaching fairies.
His CL-10 beeps as he steps past the last of the leaf litter and out into brilliant sunshine once more. ]
Soil pH just spiked. I'm readin' high levels of calcium salts in these rocks.
[ It's such a pretty world, but these readings are just proving it to be less and less hospitable to humans... or assholes, for that matter. ]
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Luckily for the both of them, there's fairies to keep from sending that thought properly spiraling - still, Rin is a bit more work-focused, after Wolfwood calls out the soil readings. They make a note on their own tablet, and start to look around the surrounding area.]
We need to take water samples.
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I'll get it.
[ There's no open water here, but his scanner reports that there's plenty just a few centimeters beneath the rocky soil. This is such a wet world! It's a shame that it's so inhospitable to humans.
But maybe that's for the best. No humans will try to settle here and tear down these fern trees to build their factories. It'll stay a pretty world, with its bugs and fairy lights undisturbed. ]
Watch my back for those lights.
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[No joking about how they're probably harmless, at least. Even if Rin wouldn't have ground to stand on after their flailing bullshit earlier. Really, though - there's not that much to track, considering how fucking obvious the glowing things are. Rin doesn't turn on Wolfwood to watch him work.
But, as though they're echoing Wolfwood's thoughts;]
Early data shows markers for a stable ecosystem with some unstable geological elements.
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It's a nice world.
[ Even if the readings he's getting back point to an environment that's far too acidic for humans -- or anyone else, for that matter -- to be comfortable here, it's still a pretty world. All the nicer, really, for being so hostile to human life. It'll keep the place safe, for now. ]
Water pH reporting between three point six and five point two.
[ Damn. No swimming in any of these little rivers, then. ]
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There are water treatments for that, but they're only effective if removing additional toxins from a contaminated environment. [Hello fringes life.] If that's the environment's equilibrium it'll change the entire system.
[Too bad. It's beginning to look more like humans living here would take a while to truly terraform into hospitable - in which case, might as well have stayed on Tellus.]
Any microorganisms?
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[ No, if they terraformed this place, it would kill off all the life already existing here happily. Wolfwood's tablet blinks as data rolls in, reporting all manner of living things bumbling around in the water sample. It's a stable, complex ecosystem (if a bit sulphur-smelling on the other side of the helmet's glass), and they don't belong here.
Wolfwood stands, finally, not bothering to brush the dirt off his knees, and tucks his tablet away. There's really no reason to keep scanning, is there? This isn't the world they're looking for. ]
Should've known this place was too good to be true.
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[It's statistically unlikely that the first place they found would be the perfect home for their cargohold of humans - but there are a few years left of their navigation of the nebula, after all. Who knows what they'll find.
(Who knows if they'll make it.)
But Rin seems entirely prepared to keep going, until Wolfwood starts moving, and putting his instrument away.]
... What.
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Wolfwood appreciates a taciturn companion, he really does... but this fucker really pushes every limit. Wolfwood glances back, just to make sure Rin's comment wasn't about their fairy friends. The fairies are a ways back still, though, seemingly more interested in the trunk of a giant fern than the two intruders. So if that wasn't it, then what? ]
What what?
[ Two can play at this game, jerk. ]
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Where are you going?
[It's a genuine bafflement that echoes in their voice, even as they lower their scanner and move to follow Wolfwood.]
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You can go back to the ship if you want. I'm just gonna stretch my legs.
[ Even without the fairies bumbling about and raising everyone's moods, Wolfwood just sounds, well... mellow. Relaxed. Maybe even happy. His helmet doesn't let any UV from the planet's sun through the visor, he can't feel the grass beneath his feet, but he's still outside. This is the best he's going to get for who knows how many more months, and he's got no intention of heading back into their tin can anytime soon. ]
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End result, that they start to walk a good two meters separated from Wolfwood, focus turning down towards their scanning equipment.]
I need to finish scanning.
[If Wolfwood decides to ignore them and spend the rest of the time basking like a lizard, that's fine by them. They'll just have to exist in proximity for a while, functioning in silent proximity.]
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He's not going anywhere in particular, other than generally up. He'll stop every couple of meters to check out an interesting plant, or to hold a rock up to the light, investigating with his hands and eyes instead of the scanner. There's not a whole lot of visible animal life out here in the sunshine, which seems strange to somebody used to Tellus's gentle yellow sun, but the closer into the shade he gets the more things start scurrying away in the underbrush as he approaches.
It's a good world. Wonder if there's anything larger than a beetle in here? ]