Chapter 10 : The Desert part 2
Good evening, or should I call it good endless day? Oh forget it, let's just get started.
At the time of this recording session, it has been twenty hours since little Scott and his first team wandered through the raging sandy landscape. He is now recovering from slight dehydration in the medbay alongside Liam. Vetra Nyx went there for a short while before returning to her duty in engineering deck, Peebee didn't stay long in the medbay; she pretty much snuck her way back into the escape pod room, where the team's Remnant material were salvaged from the desert vault.
Here, let me show you something.
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As you can see beyond the ship's window, drizzle had been materializing around Paradise ever since Elaaden vault was fixed. Not only had the moon's heat dropped sharply from 90 degrees Celsius to 45 degrees Celsius, water sources are also about to form around the adjacent area, at least we don't have to worry about getting dehydrated as well.
According to Dr. Anwar and Kallo Jath, there is a high chance of flash flooding sometime after the drizzle finally goes away. With that in mind, we may have to scout high areas where we can place a viable outpost.
Also one thing worth mentioning, Peebee came at me when I was preparing everyone's meal. She said that, thanks in part to my earlier persuasion, she was able to gain plenty of valuable data from this moon's vault, including some Remnant drones. The asari asked me if I'm interested in studying the drones. I wholeheartedly agreed with her proposal, and she sent me parts and blueprints to examine.
Let's begin from the drones. SAM, show us the basics.
(SAM : Understood. The Remnant drones are classified by Peebee into four categories. The first is called Observer, and is the most common type of drone we encountered in both Eos and Elaaden. The Observers possess four flexible appendages under hexagonal platforms, scanning tools, laser weaponry, and a special kind of element zero core which allows them to fly.)
(Negal : May I add that these ones are the most peaceful robots.)
(SAM : The second type is the Breachers. They are less common than Observers, and also more aggressive. These ones have four bladed appendages with diamond-shaped bodies, weaker laser weapon, and the same flying eezo core.)
(Kithara : I am about to devote my time in studying these Breachers. Perhaps one day I can utilize one as my mobile platform... until we can make an even larger one.)
I will add a notification of that in my timetable. SAM, continue.
(SAM : The third type is called Assemblers. Unlike the first two, the Assemblers are largely docile as they carry more maintenance tools than the floating ones. Assemblers have two legs with no arms, small compact bodies, and short-burst weapons. The latest one is known as Nullifiers, and seemingly acted as walking turrets. They possess two pillar-like legs which create frontal shielding when attacking, a single wall-penetrating cannon, and large oval platforms.)
I must say that I'm surprised at the number of drones the Remnant builders made. Back home, the quarians never bothered to construct flying drones at all; every geth platforms were fairly the same except for their size and identification.
Thankfully, the team recovered a wealth of Remnant materials as they went about the vault. Here, we have what Ryder called sprouted-seed vials, and then there are kinetic coils, drone body parts including their cores, and loads of polymer. If I can properly allocate these resources and flawlessly copy whatever project the asari is doing in her room, I might be able to produce drones that my 'children' can use to participate in explorations. The mined mineral supplies are also very appreciated. Now we have a surplus in graphite, vanadium, iron, and silicon. Element zero is still carefully distributed since it's the most valuable mineral at our disposal.
On the other hand, not much blueprints had been recovered and researched by the ship's technicians. We have designs for a Remnant armor set and a lightweight, plasma-based sniper rifle called the Shadow, but that's it. No amazing hocus-pocus or the like.
(Nemeth : You are seriously disappointed, master? Back home, you didn't care about the concept of 'pillaging through a necropolis for a holiday present'.)
(Druzzo : Still a better gift compared to the stunt that raccoon asari allegedly did. Giving a walking turret a loud 'boo' from behind?)
(Negal : At least the distraction worked.)
Yes, yes, thanks for the input. I promise, once you all have your own floating platforms, you can go shooting the Remnant all day long.
Ryder's account detailed a number of pirate encounters. As expected, there are more human and krogan pirates compared to the turian and asari ones. From the pirates' loot, the team gained weapons that were illegally taken from the Nexus or purchased from Kadara, such as the Mattock and Harrier, Mantis rifle, Phalanx pistol and forked omniblades.
In my spare time, I took another opportunity to speak with Annea the angara merchant again. From her stories, it appeared that the homeworld of her species is a moon called Havarl. After voyaging across space for some unknown years, the scourge hit, and the angara entered a dark age. They reinvented space travel after many years, and reconnected with their lost colonies. As of now, their official capital lies in planet Aya. After much examination on the vault's planetary network, I found out that Aya is where Peebee originally wanted us to go. If this information really is true, then the ancient angara must have made contact with the Remnant makers, or at least discovered what we coined as 'ancient alien relic'.
There's not much info on Aya or its location, as Annea and the other angara were kind of untrusting towards the Milky Way colonists. Understandable, as I later learnt that her people had been waging war against the Kett for seventy years or so. Anyone captured by those invaders were never seen again, and nobody knows what the Kett did to them.
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Oh, pardon me. I think Doctor Lexi is calling for assistance. If I have the time, I'll post some more intel. Signing off.
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(Adana : Master didn't turn off the camera.)
(Negal : Should we alert her now, like right now?)
(Kithara : Oh, don't worry. She usually goes straight to the point when talking to the doctor. I'm sure she will return soon and turn the camera off.)
(Negal : Why? Is she afraid that Dr. T'Perro might undo her disguise?)
(Sharcov : Exactly... Ah, what am I seeing?)
(Kithara : What is happening?)
(Sharcov : Someone is tampering with the Nexus' security cameras, a male operator it seems. I'll track him down for now. Tell the master about this by the time she went back.)