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[[File:materials.png|30px]] MATERIALS +320, [[File:NJ.png|30px]] [[New Jericho]]'s attitude to [[File:1pp.png|30px]] [[Phoenix Project]] <b>+3</b>, [[File:Anu.png|30px]] [[Disciples of Anu]]'s attitude to [[File:1pp.png|30px]] [[Phoenix Project]] <b>-3</b>. | [[File:materials.png|30px]] MATERIALS +320, [[File:NJ.png|30px]] [[New Jericho]]'s attitude to [[File:1pp.png|30px]] [[Phoenix Project]] <b>+3</b>, [[File:Anu.png|30px]] [[Disciples of Anu]]'s attitude to [[File:1pp.png|30px]] [[Phoenix Project]] <b>-3</b>. | ||
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+ | ==Lost Expedition== | ||
+ | Our operatives have discovered the broken remains of an experimental Synedrion mobile lab. Apparently the vehicle suffered a containment failure; there are no signs of the crew, but some of the equipment could be salvaged. | ||
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+ | ===Salvage the equipment without informing Synedrion=== | ||
+ | The research itself is sadly lost, but there are some useful parts that can be extracted from the lab. | ||
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+ | [[File:tech.png|30px]] TECH +300 | ||
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+ | ===Inform Synedrion regarding our discovery and give them the equipment=== | ||
+ | Dr. Hussein Habinek, a Synedrion scientist who helped design the lab, sends us a message of thanks. He had argued against deploying it so early, but was outvoted. | ||
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+ | "There is little pleasure to be had in being proven right about something so terrible," he says, "but at least we know what happened, and can learn from it." | ||
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+ | [[File:Synedrion.png|30px]] [[Synedrion]]'s attitude to [[File:1pp.png|30px]] [[Phoenix Project]] <b>+5</b> | ||
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+ | ===Take everything useful, then inform Synedrion=== | ||
+ | Dr. Hussein Habinek, a Synedrion scientist who helped design the lab, sends us a message of thanks. He had argued against deploying it so early but was outvoted. | ||
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+ | "There is little pleasure to be had in being proven right about something so terrible," he says. "I wish I knew what happened. I suppose it will always haunt me." | ||
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+ | [[File:tech.png|30px]] TECH +175, [[File:Synedrion.png|30px]] [[Synedrion]]'s attitude to [[File:1pp.png|30px]] [[Phoenix Project]] <b>+4</b> | ||
Revision as of 07:16, 30 September 2020
Text events that happen after exploring POIs (point of interest) on Geoscape. To explore POI you need aircraft with at least 1 soldier. Exploring takes 4 hours. Events are random and not predetermined.
Contents
Events with choices
Aftermath
Our operatives have discovered an unsettling sight: on a hill near the ruins of a burned-down haven, eight New Jericho soldiers have been beheaded. Their heads, still wearing their helmets, have been placed on spikes. It's impossible to know what happened here, but it can't have been good.
Inform New Jericho of our discovery
A message from New Jericho thanks us for the information and asks us to bury the soldiers' remains. There is no comment as to what the soldiers may have been doing.
New Jericho's attitude to Phoenix Project +4
Hey, free helmets!
Whatever happened here, it's all over now. The dead soldiers won't mind their helmets being reused.
3 New Jericho Heavy Helmets received
Inform the other factions of our discovery, suggesting New Jericho committed an atrocity here
An official statement from New Jericho disavows any responsibility for the actions of these soldiers, who are said to have gone AWOL weeks ago, and blames the Phoenix Project for deliberately inflaming tensions.
New Jericho's attitude to Phoenix Project -7, Synedrion's attitude to Phoenix Project +6, Disciples of Anu's attitude to Phoenix Project +3, Synedrion's attitude to New Jericho -7, Disciples of Anu's attitude to New Jericho -7.
Embalmed
In what appears to have once been a textile factory, our operatives have discovered hundreds of mummified bodies covered in a thin film of mucus. It is unclear whether this mucus was deposited on the bodies by an external source or whether it was excreted during the process of mummification.
Representatives of the Disciples of Anu demand that the bodies of the ""martyrs"" be turned over to them for study, while New Jericho demands that the bodies be destroyed to prevent infection.
Allow the Disciples to study the bodies
The Disciples thank us for protecting the bodies of the martyrs from the heathens at New Jericho, and reward us for our good deed.
FOOD +300, New Jericho's attitude to Phoenix Project -3, Disciples of Anu's attitude to Phoenix Project +4
Demolish the building, burying the bodies
We receive a message of thanks from New Jericho. They're glad that we have the sanity to look at a bunch of mummified bodies and see a health risk, not objects to be worshipped, and they're not averse to expressing their thankfulness in material terms.
MATERIALS +320, New Jericho's attitude to Phoenix Project +3, Disciples of Anu's attitude to Phoenix Project -3.
Lost Expedition
Our operatives have discovered the broken remains of an experimental Synedrion mobile lab. Apparently the vehicle suffered a containment failure; there are no signs of the crew, but some of the equipment could be salvaged.
Salvage the equipment without informing Synedrion
The research itself is sadly lost, but there are some useful parts that can be extracted from the lab.
Inform Synedrion regarding our discovery and give them the equipment
Dr. Hussein Habinek, a Synedrion scientist who helped design the lab, sends us a message of thanks. He had argued against deploying it so early, but was outvoted.
"There is little pleasure to be had in being proven right about something so terrible," he says, "but at least we know what happened, and can learn from it."
Synedrion's attitude to Phoenix Project +5
Take everything useful, then inform Synedrion
Dr. Hussein Habinek, a Synedrion scientist who helped design the lab, sends us a message of thanks. He had argued against deploying it so early but was outvoted.
"There is little pleasure to be had in being proven right about something so terrible," he says. "I wish I knew what happened. I suppose it will always haunt me."
TECH +175, Synedrion's attitude to Phoenix Project +4
Memories
While exploring a seemingly unremarkable ruin, our operatives stumble across a book half-hidden in a pile of rubble: an old copy of Olaf Stapledon's visionary novel Star Maker. It is unusually well-preserved.
Further investigation reveals what appears to be a collapsed library. Sealed off under the rubble, the books have remained almost completely undamaged. While not useful in our war against the Pandoravirus, these books represent a vital part of humanity's history. Would digging them out be worth it?
Yes, this is part of who we are
Costs 25 [File:materials.png|30px]] MATERIALS, 15 FOOD and 10 TECH. Digging out the books takes a surprisingly long time, but the bounty is rich, including the Complete Works of Doris Lessing, Robert Byron's The Road to Oxiana, and a worn copy of Arkady and Boris Strugatsky's The Final Circle of Paradise, long thought lost.
Synedrion's attitude to Phoenix Project +6, New Jericho's attitude to Phoenix Project +3, Disciples of Anu's attitude to Phoenix Project -4
No, humanity must embrace new ways
Perhaps in this new era, the past should be left alone.
Synedrion's attitude to Phoenix Project -3, New Jericho's attitude to Phoenix Project -3, Disciples of Anu's attitude to Phoenix Project +5
This choice should be left to a future generation, if we survive the war
Perhaps the best way of preserving these texts is to let them stay exactly where they are, safely underground, until one day this war is over and there is time for books once more.
Sometimes You Get Lucky
Approaching the burned-out husks of a New Jericho convoy, our operatives are suddenly startled by a shout. From a rudimentary shelter dug out under one of the burned vehicles emerges a battered New Jericho technician, waving his arms and laughing.
Exhausted by the ordeal yet deeply grateful, the survivor offers to join the Phoenix Project.
Recruit him. We can always use more people
"This month has not turned out the way I'd expected it," he comments as he sits down in the [AircraftName], wiping the dirt from his face.
Player obtains one New Jericho technician soldier.
Send him back to New Jericho
The survivor is too relieved to be alive to really care about being rejected. We receive a message of thanks from New Jericho for returning their man.
New Jericho's attitude to Phoenix Project +4
Execute him
This is most likely an attempt to infiltrate our ranks. We will not fall for it.
New Jericho's attitude to Phoenix Project -6, Synedrion's attitude to Phoenix Project -2
Steel
Our operatives have discovered an abandoned scrapyard which appears to have once been used as a refuge by a group of steelworkers. The workers heroically defended this location for years until hunger finally forced them to abandon it. Remarkably, they recorded their history by engraving it onto the large metallic plates they used to keep out the enemy.
These plates would be extremely useful as construction material, but representatives of Synedrion have asked us to preserve them as a source of inspiration for future generations.
Resources are resources. Recycle it all
We cannot afford to be sentimental about such things. Metal is metal, and images won't win this war.
MATERIALS +260, Synedrion's attitude to Phoenix Project -4, Disciples of Anu's attitude to Phoenix Project +4
We must remember our history. Preserve them
If we remember those who fought, if their struggle inspires our own, then their deaths were not in vain. In this way, these works of art may help us win the war for humankind.
Synedrion's attitude to Phoenix Project +4, Disciples of Anu's attitude to Phoenix Project -4.
The Forgotten
Our operatives have discovered the location of an abandoned lab. The doors appear to have remained sealed for at least twenty years. Unfortunately, it is impossible to ascertain the lab's purpose from the outside.
Break in
"The scientists who once worked in this lab are nothing but skeletons, starved to death long ago. It would seem they kept working to the end, trying to find a cure to the Pandoravirus.
As our operatives strip the base, they find a note left by the scientists. It's a short, simple message: "Make it all mean something."
TECH +120, Research +150, Stamina -10
Let it be
Perhaps it's best not to know what is in there. Our operatives will bury the lab, leaving its mysteries for another generation, should one ever come to pass.
Events without choice
The Towering Incompetence
Our operatives have discovered a highly-fortified skyscraper. The site appears to be abandoned. Our findings indicate that this location was fortified by the owners of a hedge fund, who intended to outlast the end of days here. Although the structure is beginning to crumble, it would have been a good place to survive the early years of the apocalypse.
This tragedy is something of a puzzle: despite the availability of tremendous technical resources and enough supplies to last a century, the owners of this structure apparently died from voluntarily drinking unfiltered water.
War
This valley was the location of a major battle of the Third World War. The ground is poisoned and thousands of skeletons, now overgrown by mutated moss, litter the countryside. There is absolutely nothing of value here. Leave.