Here is where we'll store all the information we've gathered thus far. Will update as the rp goes along and we discover new things. You shouldn't comment on here as this is solely for information that I'll provide to you as if it's the Databank of your PDA. Enjoy the browsing.
Done reading the PDA? Better get back to surviving!
Evidence suggests that a substantial number, if not all of the local species reproduce through egg-laying. Eggs can be found resting on the seafloor, buried beneath detritus, or even wedged into cracks in the rock.
Different species likely favor different biomes as their nesting grounds. Eggs discovered in the wild are in some form of natural stasis, likely awaiting ideal conditions in which to hatch, or the delivery of some vital enzyme which will kick start the process.
It is impossible to calculate the species of the egg from the exterior, however it may be possible to stimulate a hatching response if an egg is relocated to a suitable alien containment unit.
Scans indicate this infected organism has recently come into contact with a unique enzyme which has counteracted the most debilitating symptoms of its infection.
- Skin blistering has rapidly receded and been replaced with healthy tissue
- Altered genetic material has been replaced with original DNA from remaining healthy cells
- Behavior normal
- The bacteria is still present in the bloodstream, but is currently dormant
Assessment: Investigate enzyme origin
This organism is displaying signs of a bacterial infection.
- Bright green blisters are forming networks around the infection sites
- Pathology suggests a waterborne bacterium capable of penetrating the body through the skin and respiratory system
- Underlying indications of genetic mutation and aggressive behavior
- The bacterium itself is unlike any so far recorded in human exploration
WARNING: May be contagious. Avoid. Do not under any circumstances consume the flesh.
Air pumps can be used to pipe breathable air to a remote location.
- The base-attached air pump can be built at a compatible habitat, and will source oxygen directly from the habitat's oxygen generator
- The floating air pump must have access to breathable air, and be floating on the water's surface
- Pumps must be connected to a pipe chain to function.
The essential science and survival tool, the scanner can be used to add new blueprints to memory, and analyse unknown entities.
It emits a electromagnetic radiation in the specified direction, which is reflected by the environment and then analysed to determine the physical make-up of the targeted object. It has four primary functions.
Blueprint Acquisition:
Record the physical parameters of scanned technologies to add their blueprints to the PDA databank. These blueprints may then be constructed at the appropriate fabricator. The scanner is also equipped to break down damaged and otherwise useless devices into their base metals for salvage purposes.
Organism Analysis:
The scanner will attempt to match scanned organisms against the onboard database. If no match is found then the species will be assigned an easy-to-remember name, and a new databank entry will be created. Your PDA's AI will also attempt to synthesize theories on behavioural tendencies and evolutionary origins where possible, as well as deliver assessments on how best to approach them.
Medical Analysis:
Scanning any living organism will display basic information on their state of health on the scanner's HUD. This information will be limited without access to a network database.
Self-Scan:
The user may run a self-scan to determine their own physical well-being. The scanner will search for foreign bacteria and other signs of ill-health, and compare with available data to provide a diagnosis.
The Alterra Spectroscope Scanner - Understanding the world so you don't have to.
The repair tool can be targeted at any common device - control panels, habitat modules, radios etc - to stitch wires and seams back together at the atomic level. All good technicians keep one of these under their pillow.
Most people don't care why it works, just that it saved their life that one time - but in case you're curious, it combines scanner and fabricator technologies to determine the proper specifications for the targeted object, and then rearranges the available physical material to match the original specs.
The Alterra Repair Tool: Get your fix.
This suit fully protects against the effects of radiation during land, sea and space exploration.
- Safety rated up to 400 Sv/hr
- Cross-compatible with all AEP suit functionality
- Sleek
'The Radiation Suit: A necessary precaution in a post-MAD world.'
The ultra high frequency laser cutter is tuned specifically to cut through titanium and plasteel based materials at a thickness of up to 10cm. This makes it an essential tool for construction, salvage and rescue operations, but ineffective on natural obstacles.
'The Alterra Laser Cutter: Who called the locksmith?'
A mobile, battery-powered LED light, which provides low-level lighting in a 360 degree area, and can be attached to most surfaces.
The propulsion cannon allows technicians to manipulate gravitational forces at ranges of up to 20m. It is commonly used in construction and mining to move materials.
Operating Instructions:
- Pull the trigger once to lock onto and attract a single targeted object weighing less than 25kg
- The object can now safely be retrieved from the gravitational beam
- Alternatively, pull the trigger a second time to propel the object at speed away from the device
- Not recommended for use on organic subjects
'The Prop Cannon: Some species are telekinetic. For everyone else, there's Alterra.'
The aquarium is designed to hold and sustain up to eight small aquatic organisms, and fits inside a regular multipurpose habitat room.
Aquatic creatures make up 70% of all known species, making the aquarium a commonly deployed tool in many exploratory operations. It is just as often used to house livestock for later consumption as is to hold specimens for xeno research. An automated environment regulation system means there's no need to feed or care for your subjects.
NB Due to its size the regular aquarium is not rated for breeding applications, and creatures are highly unlikely to mate. Construct a full size alien containment unit for this purpose.
Fabrication technology is the power to rearrange matter at the atomic level. It was the catalyst behind the great expansion, and remains the backbone of the modern world.
Fabricators come in all shapes and sizes, but the most common are small enough to be wall-mounted, and are used for everything from constructing everyday implements to cooking dinner. It is common today for households to keep a store of generic base materials on hand for any eventuality.
The Alterra handled habitat builder has been an essential tool of xenoscientists, colonists and emergency relief crews across 11 different trans-govs for more than 50 years.
- Habitat modules are hermetically sealed from the outside environment
- Build on land, underwater, or in a vacuum
- Habitats can be enhanced to become long-term homes, remote research stations, defensive outposts and more
Quick Start Guide:
1. Select the basic compartment from the builder menu and place it somewhere opportune
2. Add a hatch to access the compartment
3. Build a solar panel to power the habitat's oxygen generator
4. Construct useful interior modules like radios, rechargers and storage solutions.
Primary habitat systems like oxygen generation and flood control, as well as modules like fabricator draw power and will not function without it. Additional compartments reduce overall hull integrity x depending on the external pressure.
Quick-Build Habitats: A home far, far away from home.
Solar power is the most prevalent power source in the galaxy, and so it is no accident that the standard solar panel is the default means of powering a habitat. A power source is a requirement of habitat oxygen generators and other onboard modules.
- Provides limited power for small outposts and survival habitats
- May be mounted on or near the habitat itself, or placed remotely and connected via power transmitters
- Power rate relative to sunlight exposure
Insufficient data
The mobile vehicle bay is a deployable station equipped with fabrication drones, designed to construct small research and exploration vehicles from raw materials. It is a common tool in almost all industrial, scientific and colonization operations.
The seaglide is a personal transportation device designed for use in oceanic environments.
- Capable of speeds up to 36km/h in standing water
- Displays basic topographical data for aid in charting cave systems
- Replaceable battery
- Keep fingers clear of propeller
The seaglide: Anything that moves faster underwater is probably trying to eat you.
Safety Warnings:
- May support leviathan class predators
- Water contaminated with high levels of foreign bacteria
- Planet is beyond federation space, rescue unlikely
It is not recommended to explore this environment without hazardous material suits and extensive support apparatus.
Sulfur is a highly reactive, non-metallic element, usually found in abundance underground. Common applications include production of acidic compounds, and combustibles.
Assessment: Essential for advanced fabrication
These unusual geological structures often form around titanium and copper deposits, and are distinct to this planet. Closer analysis reveals the stone around the metal has been hardened against erosion, but the mechanism remains unknown.
Assessment: Titanium and copper source
These common, porous outcrops seem to form around small amounts of precious metals, or otherwise these metals are part of a sedimentary buildup over time.
Assessment: Lead, silver and gold source
Analysis confirms this wreckage is from the Aurora.
Outer layers of the material have oxidized, suggesting it has been heated to over 1200 Celsius. This pattern is consistent with hull disintegration during atmospheric entry.
Salvage of intact portions of Alterra vessels is prohibited at legal, moral and technical levels, however scraps such as these may be reclaimed for their titanium content at any Alterra fabricator.
A permanent, growing colony of microscopic organisms. This coral species has adapted to filter carbon dioxide from the environment, using the carbon to build the colony, and expelling the oxygen from specialized exhaust funnels. It is quite hardy, suggesting samples from a mature specimen could be grown artificially.
Assessment: Air tanks are equipped to siphon oxygen from the water where possible
The variety of coral formations on 4546B appear to be different solutions to the same problem of maximizing water and nutrient flow throughout the colony. These particular variants funnel water down a tube, filtering nutrients as they pass. Their size suggests they have been highly successful.
Assessment: Coral tube samples are rich in calcium, exploitable in bleach fabrication
This variant of coral has adapted to survive in close proximity to other corals, filtering nutrients from the water and sharing them via a spore-like substance which grows around the base.
Assessment: No practical applications discovered
Each disk is an individual colony of microorganisms, filtering nutrients from the water.
Growth patterns indicate the colonies are in direct competition for positions with superior current or light. Unlike other coral species its structure is malleable, softly pulsating as it pumps nutrients to its extremities, and only turning rigid when it senses physical assault.
The jewel-like nodes in the surface are concentrated build-ups of rare minerals the coral is unable to process.
Assessment: Exploitable in computer chip fabrication
Flora
A common, spore-bearing fungi species. The flesh contains a highly acidic compound which leaches into the water if the outer skin is penetrated.
It is not clear which predator species necessitated such extreme counter-measures, but the acid mushroom's numbers suggest it has successfully deterred most of them.
Assessment: Inedible - Acid has applications in battery fabrication
A kelp species concentrated in large forests, in shallow, sandy waters. Loose roots anchor the plant to the sea floor, from where it grows steadily toward the surface in pursuit of sunlight.
The stem is fibrous and rich in iron, making it both a viable base material for fabrication of textiles, as well as a basic foodstuff.
Assessment: Vital alien resource - Edible - Construction Applications
Mature creepvine plants that have survived the predation of small herbivores produce these bioluminescent seed clusters, which may be knocked loose by currents or consumed and later deposited by predators.
The embryo is surrounded by a thick oil and silicone layer, which would disperse into the ground as the outer skin deteriorated. This may provide the seedling with the nutrients it needs to survive the low-light conditions on the sea bed.
Assessment: Vital alien resource - Construction Applications
A streamlined predator encountered in the kelp forests in wait of prey leaving the safety of the shallows to feed. The stalker likely carved out its evolutionary niche at the sweet spot between speed and size millions of years ago, and may be one of the oldest species on the planet.
The stalker appears to be attracted to titanium deposits, which tends to sharpen and put stress on its teeth.
As with many predators, it may be possible to temporarily distract hungry stalkers by feeding them.
1. Teeth:
The stalker's teeth are unusually hard, and fast-growing. Its elongated snout can deliver huge biting pressure to larger attackers, while also being used to reach small herbivores seeking refuge amongst the rocks.
2. Night-vision:
Retinal layering on the eyeball suggests adaptation for night-time hunting.
3. Dorsal Ridges:
These ridges can be moved independently to deliver superior maneuverability.
4. Pelvic Fins:
Long and powerful, the stalker has evolved to hunt the fastest of prey.
Assessment: Stalker teeth may have applications in enameled glass fabrication
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A herbivore encountered in large numbers, found to frequent shallow waters and move in schools.
1. Serrated Teeth:
Suggests adaptation for grinding corals other herbivores are unable to digest.
2. Twin-fins:
Unusually, this species' two fins are a cartilaginous extension of its skeleton. They are less prone to damage and provide superior propulsion, but are also harder to grow back. The bright blue tips are in fact the ends of its digestive tract, where the luminescence of the corals it consumes is most focused.
Most active during daylight hours, and prone to flee on approach, the boomerang can more easily be observed at night when its luminescence gives it away and it seeks the shelter of the seabed.
Assessment: Edible
An extreme evolutionary adaptation where 90% of the lifeform's body mass is dedicated to the ocular cavity.
1. Oversized Eyeball:
Deep-set rings in the lens suggest specialization for identifying its predators in low-light environments, long before they come into attack range.
2. Underdeveloped Fins:
Incapable of fast movement, this species is vulnerable to agile predators at close range. Shark species may have evolved hunting techniques to close on the eyeye unseen from above, below, or behind.
This organism and the common peeper share a common evolutionary ancestor. While the eyeye has sacrificed maneuverability, it shares and enhances its cousin's powerful eyesight. The ancestral 'alpha peeper' may have been one of the first lifeforms on 4546B to develop eyesight, many millions of years ago.
Assessment: Edible (low-calorie count)
Slow-moving and curious herbivore, camouflage indicates adaptation for evasive behavior on the ocean floor.
1. Eye Stalks:
May be beneficial when watching for predators from hiding places amongst the coral.
2. Behavior:
More active during daylight hours, but slow and docile at all times, the garryfish's survival depends on a combination of camouflage and predators who can get a more filling meal elsewhere.
Assessment: Edible
A slow-moving lifeform, and one of the larger herbivores on the planet. Providing a substantial meal to would-be predators, the gasopod protects its domain by filling the surrounding water with poisonous and corrosive pods whose contents dissolve even synthetic fibers.
1. Filtration System:
Thick, non-reactive skin and multiple gill layers render this creature impervious to the noxious acid clouds it produces.
2. Algae Gland:
A bulbous, sack-like appendage on the rear end. A luminescent yellow algae grows inside the sack and produces the poisonous compound. Abdominal muscles can contract, causing the algae gland to emit the noxious compound into the surrounding water.
3. Large Pelvic Fins:
Capable of powerful movement through the water when moving in small herds.
4. Behavior:
Gasopods appear to be social in nature, and may even use their emissions in their relationship rituals. Their audible calls are likely signifiers of nearby threats, or food sources.
Assessment: Approach with caution - Acidic pods may be retrieved and re-purposed
A fast prey fish encountered in shallow waters and rich in protein.
1. Developed, Side-facing Eyes:
Capable of discerning colors not just in shallows waters but in a variety of lighting conditions. It is also able to close its eyelids, thus preventing light from reflecting off the lenses and rendering the peeper almost invisible to night time predators.
2. Powerful Fins:
This species has evolved powerful fins which enable rapid acceleration in still water, and the ability to leap meters into the air to avoid pursuers.
3. Beak:
Likely used to break down corals and tough vegetation. An unusually large nasal cavity serves no obvious purpose, and appears to be specially evolved to detect a single, specific enzyme. Nothing encountered on the planet so far produces a matching odor.
4. Expulsion Tubes:
The tubes attached to the peeper's torso are connected directly to its stomach and gills, and appear to be designed to expel its contents on demand. Purpose unclear.
While the peeper is well adapted to survive in shallow waters, a number of its features serve no discernible purpose. It would appear to be just as well suited to survive in deeper waters, and is somewhat more intelligent than the usual small herbivore.
Assessment: Edible (high calorie count), further research required
If you are reading this, then you have survived an emergency evacuation of a capital-class ship equipped with Alterra technology. Congratulations: the hard part is over.
Your PDA has already rebooted in Emergency Mode. This operating system has one directive: to keep you alive on a hostile alien world. If that is not possible it will alert salvage teams to the location of your remains.
It features:
- Full monitoring of vital signs for timely survival advice
- Blueprints for fabricating a range of essential survival equipment, tailored to your environment
- Onboard camera, microphone and OCR technology for short-range situational analysis
- Cross-compatibility with all Alterra-complaint products
NB Your personal and work files have been encrypted and may be retrieved at a later date by a licensed engineer.
Survival Checklist
1. Administer first aid if required
2. Take inventory of available materials and supplies, and decide on rations
3. Survey the environment for threats and resources
4. Construct necessary survival equipment using the lifepod's fabricator
5. Check lifepod for damage, and repair as necessary
7. Locate other survivors using line of sight or the radio
8. Find or construct a more permanent habitat
9. Maintain physical and psychological health until rescue
NB This information is meant as a general guide. In the first instance you should always follow the advice of your PDA, which has taken your particular circumstances into account.
WARNING: Blueprint Database Corrupted
Damage to your PDA's hard drive has corrupted approximately 80% of stored survival blueprints. Blueprints may be reacquired by scanning salvaged technology with a handheld scanner, or by downloading plans from a ship-board databox. In these circumstances these assets will most likey be found amongst wreckage from the Aurora.
2-Berth Emergency Lifepod
Standard features:
- Short range radio (250km uninterrupted range)
- Wall-mounted fabricator for survival equipment manufacture, and for rendering organic substances edible
- Medical kit fabricator
- Onboard air-break and flotation devices, for land, sea or space recovery
- Solar power cells ×3
- Emergency exists in the floor and roof
NB Some lifepods may be equipped with different supplies, such as radiation suits and replacement parts. Board the right lifepod for the right situation.
All-Environment Protection Suit
The Alterra AEP Suit: A single solution for a universe of infinite danger
You are currently wearing the AEP suit: a hermetically-sealed personal environment, designed to withstand the most extreme conditions in the known universe.
- Onboard temperature and hydration regulation
- Compatible with a range of attachments
- Slimline build for maximum freedom of movement
- Biometric sensors
- Contextual heads-up display
AEP suits should always be equipped BEFORE lifepod launch, in case of hull breach.
Aurora Ship Status
Ship Class: Alterra Long-Range Capital Ship
Mission: Ariadne Arm Phasegate Institution, 3 year operation time
Crew: Command Team (23), Engineering Team (85), Support Crew (40), Passengers (9)
Status:
- Sustained heavy damage in orbit of planet 4546B
- Chase unknown
- Evacuation data unavailable
Engineering section:
- Dark matter ion drive core V8
- Manned robotics suite
- Advanced scanner suite
- Long-range communications relay
- 0.25 cubic kilometers storage for phasegate apparatus
Habitation section:
- Accommodation for 150 people
- Multiple canteens serving healthy fresh and rehydrated food
- Leisure facilities including VR suite and virtual cinema
coffee machine functions like a normal alchemical coffee device you did not have
its stuck on small size, but pressing LARGE MEDIUM LARGE SMALL in that order will bypass the old payment system on the salvaged electronic parts
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