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== Initial events == The initial event can be triggered by a science ship with a scientist assigned to it entering the marked black hole system. <div align="center"> {{Event |version = Timeless |event_name = The Horizon Signal |event_text = [[File:Evt black hole.png|center]]<br>An alert communications officer has identified what appears to be a faint signal, almost lost in the gamma-ray flashes from the black hole here - faint, but unmistakably artificial. This raises intriguing possibilities for our scientists. |trigger = * Not {{iconify|Gestalt Consciousness}} * Not Leviathan system |triggered only = * Entering a black hole system with a crewed science ship * 1% chance |options = {{option |option_text = OK|effect = * Issue Special Project: Analyze the Horizon Signal}} }} {{Event |version = Timeless |event_name = The Horizon Signal: {{yellow|GRAVITY IS DESIRE}} |event_text = [[File:Evt black hole.png|center]]<br>Science Officer [scientist name] reports that the signal was unexpectedly easy to decipher... but the team has spent considerable time confirming that it was not a hoax. It is a repeating, half-coherent message in the [empire adjective] language - something like a poem. It repeats the phrases {{yellow|GRAVITY IS DESIRE}} and {{yellow|TIME IS SIGHT}}. It encodes co-ordinates near the black hole. And it ends with a dedication {{green|by name}} to the Science Officer - who adds dispassionately that they have confirmed that the signal has been radiating into interstellar space before their birth. It fact, the signal may predate our civilization. |trigger = * The Horizon Signal |triggered only = * Finishing the ''Analyze the Horizon Signal'' special project |options = {{option |option_text = {{Hover box|Begins the The Worm-in-Waiting: Signals Event Chain.|Fascinating! Send the vessel to those co-ordinates!}}|effect = * Event: The Horizon Signal: {{yellow|THE WORM}}}} {{option |option_text = {{Hover box|The techniques we developed to analyze the Signal will have some applications in Physics research.|This is a trick, or a trap. Log it and move on.}}|effect = * Event: The Horizon Signal: - message ends -}} }} {| class="mildtable" | {{Event |version = Timeless |event_name = The Horizon Signal: {{yellow|THE WORM}} |event_text = [[File:Evt black hole.png|center]]<br>As the [science ship name] approaches the co-ordinates specified by the signal, it begins to report spatial distortions and curious lensing effects - a rich stream of valuable data. Then the transmission becomes distorted. What happens next is analyzed exhaustively.<br><br>The excitement in Science Officer [scientist name]'s voice tautens to fear as the ship's hull struggles under increasingly exotic conditions. The ship triggers a distress call. [scientist name] cries out "the worm!" - or, perhaps, {{yellow|the Worm}}! Then all transmissions end. No trace of the [science ship name] is ever found - no further transmissions, no debris, and the space at those co-ordinates is innocuous and utterly free of distortions. But the data they sent back has advanced our Physics research dramatically. Perhaps it was worth their lives. |trigger = * The Horizon Signal: {{yellow|GRAVITY IS DESIRE}} |triggered only = * Previous event choice |options = {{option |option_text = They won't be forgotten.|effect = * Physics Research Gained: {{icon|physics}} 600-10000}} * Science ship and scientist are lost {{option |option_text = {{icon|materialist}}{{icon|fanatic materialist}} We learn, and we go on.|effect = * Physics Research Gained: {{icon|physics}} 600-10000}} * Science ship and scientist are lost {{option |option_text = {{icon|spiritualist}}{{icon|fanatic spiritualist}} Darkness; light; darkness.|effect = * Physics Research Gained: {{icon|physics}} 600-10000}} * Science ship and scientist are lost }} | {{Event |version = Timeless |event_name = The Horizon Signal: - message ends - |event_text = [[File:Evt black hole.png|center]]<br>[scientist name] complies, with a mixture of reluctance and relief. Their psych report later indicates that they are subject of recurring nightmares - of impossible labyrinths, of hungry vertigo of interstellar space, of their names being called in the dark. Within a homeworld year, the message has ceased. |trigger = * The Horizon Signal: {{yellow|GRAVITY IS DESIRE}} |triggered only = * Previous event choice |options = {{option |option_text = We have escaped something.|effect = * Physics Research Gained: {{icon|physics}} 200-10000}} * Science ship scientist gains {{icon|Field Manipulation}} Expertise: Field Manipulation * Science ship scientist gains {{iconify|Substance Abuser}} {{option |option_text = We have lost something.|effect = * Physics Research Gained: {{icon|physics}} 200-10000}} * Science ship scientist gains {{icon|Field Manipulation}} Expertise: Field Manipulation * Science ship scientist gains {{iconify|Substance Abuser}} }} |} {{Event |version = Timeless |event_name = The Horizon Signal: {{yellow|REPRISE}} |event_text = [[File:Evt black hole.png|center]]<br>The black hole in [system name] is active again. Once again, a looping signal flickers in the darkness at the edge of normal space. But this time, there's an acoustic message encoded in the signal. It sounds very much like [lost scientist name]'s voice. "What was shall be," intones, "what shall be was.". Then the same co-ordinates as the first signal, the co-ordinates where [lost scientist name] was lost - what the media christened "the Exit Point". Then they say a name: {{green|[scientist name]}}. |trigger = * The Horizon Signal: {{yellow|THE WORM}} |mtth = 320 days |options = {{option |option_text = [scientist name] volunteers to go. Permit it.|effect = * Event: The Horizon Signal: I'm Through}} {{option |option_text = Permit them to go, but rig their ship's drive to detonate.|effect = * Event: The Horizon Signal: An Intervention}} {{option |option_text = Not this time. Ignore it.|effect = * Event: The Horizon Signal: - message ends -}} }} {| class="mildtable" | {{Event |version = Timeless |event_name = The Horizon Signal: I'm Through |event_text = [[File:Evt black hole.png|center]]<br>This time, the ship is running fully automated. [scientist name] is the only crew-member aboard. As it approaches the Exit Point, the telemetry stream fills up with fascinating data. Once again, space flexes, gravity uncoils. [scientist name] reads off the headline data, echoing the telemetry. They are commendably calm: we've sent a professional. It takes a little while for anyone to realize that something is peculiar about the timing.<br><br>[scientist name] is no longer echoing the data: they're predicting it. The telemetry disagrees, but only for a few seconds, until it catches up. The monitoring team is just reporting that the prediction interval is increasing when [scientist name] says, wonderingly: "I'm through."<br><br>"It's dark," they add. "That's not a problem. We can live in the dark. I never thought of that. But of course, we can live here forever - if the Worm will only wait - "<br><br>At that moment, the signal cuts out, and the ship disappears from our team's sensors. |trigger = * The Horizon Signal: {{yellow|REPRISE}} |triggered only = * Previous event choice |options = {{option |option_text = This is horrible.|effect = * Science ship and scientist are lost}} {{option |option_text = This is regrettable.|effect = * Science ship and scientist are lost}} {{option |option_text = This is fascinating.|effect = * Science ship and scientist are lost}} }} | {{Event |version = Timeless |event_name = The Horizon Signal: An Intervention |event_text = [[File:Evt debris.png|center]]<br>This time, [scientist name] is the only crew-member aboard. The ship is running fully automated... and its systems are programmed to detonate the drive once conditions match those immediately prior to the last ship's disappearance. As it approaches the exit point, the telemetry stream fills up with fascinating data. Once again, space flexes, gravity uncoils. [scientist name] reads off the headline data, echoing the telemetry. They are commendably calm: we've sent a professional. It takes a little while for anyone to realize that something is peculiar about the timing.<br><br>[scientist name] is no longer echoing the data: They're predicting it. The telemetry disagrees, but only for a few seconds, until it catches up. Our monitoring team is just reporting that the prediction interval is increasing when there is a sudden energy spike.<br><br>The drive has detonated: a brief flare of stellar fury, quickly lost in the darkness of [black hole name]. Whatever we encountered there, it may regret its interference. We'll never know. The Horizon Signal does not come again. But our team may find something interesting in the ashes of the ship. |trigger = * The Horizon Signal: {{yellow|REPRISE}} |triggered only = * Previous event choice |options = {{option |option_text = And yet, this may not be the end.|effect = * Issue Special Project: Investigate fragments at Horizon Signal origin * Science ship and scientist are lost}} }} |} {| class="mildtable" | {{Event |version = Timeless |event_name = The Horizon Signal: {{yellow|THE TRINE THE QUINE THE TRINE}} |event_text = [[File:Evt black hole.png|center]]<br>Once again, the Horizon Signal in [black hole name] is active. It has upped its game. Once again, the transmission includes the Exit Point's co-ordinates. It's signed with the private comm keys of [first lost scientist name] and [second lost scientist name]. But this time it's a generative text program written in an elderly programming language that creates what appear to be love poems - love poems directed to [scientist name].<br><br>They're honestly not very good love poems. But it is, our scientists agreee, quite difficult to generate love poems procedurally, and quite unusual for a black hole to send love poems at all. |trigger = * The Horizon Signal: I'm Through |mtth = 320 days |options = {{option |option_text = Well, it's asked nicely. Send [scientist name].|effect = * Event: The Horizon Signal: Where the End Comes from}} {{option |option_text = Send [scientist name], with their drive rigged to blow.|effect = * Event: The Horizon Signal: An Intervention}} {{option |option_text = This is sinister, and ridiculous, and sinister. Let it go.|effect = * Event: The Horizon Signal: - message ends -}} }} | {{Event |version = Timeless |event_name = The Horizon Signal: A Lesson in the Ashes |event_text = [[File:Evt metropolis.png|center]]<br>We've reproduced conditions that approximate those around the black hole. We've found that the fragments we recover cycle between states, in ways that should be impossible - as if time were oscillating. We can derive energy from this - although there are worrying changes to local spacetime. |trigger = * The Horizon Signal: An Intervention |triggered only = * Finishing the ''Investigate fragments at Horizon Signal origin'' special project |options = {{option |option_text = OK|effect = * Research option gained: {{iconify|Entropic Recursion|24px}}}} }} |} {{Event |version = Timeless |event_name = The Horizon Signal: Where the End Comes from |event_text = [[File:Evt black hole.png|center]]<br>This will be the end of me," [scientist name] says at the briefing before launch. "I know I won't come back. But I think I always knew this would happen. Whatever is in the hole has been waiting for us for a long long time - I think it's been waiting for me, since before I was born.".<br><br>Once again, the single-pilot ship approaches the Exit Point. Once again, space boils like a fever. Again, our sensor arrays soak up fascinating data. This time, [scientist name] is silent. The telemetry becomes intermittent; and then it, too, is silent. The ship has reached the Exit Point. The conditions around it are returning to normal. Nothing has happened.<br><br>Nothing? The monitoring team mutter furiously. The ship is different... in fact, it's a different ship. It's [first lost scientist name]'s vessel, lost these years past, drifting now away from the Exit Point. A salvage team finds it pristine and empty - no trace of crew, and no sign of violence. But there's a journal entry in [first lost scientist name]'s name, titled {{yellow|WHAT WAS WILL BE}}. Our scientists review it nervously. "Impossible," one says. "I hope so," says another.<br><br>The ship is renamed the "Foundling" and returned to service. The Signal, dead or sleeping, says nothing at all, ever again. |trigger = * The Horizon Signal: {{yellow|THE TRINE THE QUINE THE TRINE}} |triggered only = * Previous event choice |options = {{option |option_text = And yet, this may not be the end.|effect = * Research option gained: {{iconify|Entropic Recursion|24px}} * Science ship and scientist are lost * Gain a science ship named "Foundling"}} }} {{Event |version = Timeless |event_name = The Loop Temple: Signs in the Stone |event_text = [[File:Evt in the dark.png|center]]<br>Archaeologists have found a forgotten temple in the remote highlands of [capital name] - buried for centuries, but recently exposed by an earthquake. Dating techniques suggest it's a pre-industrial relic, hand-hewn from volcanic rock. However, the recurring symbol on the walls and radial altar - a Möbius-looped serpent consuming its own tail - has no obvious precedent in our early history, and the inscriptions use an unknown alphabet. One excitable archaeologist suggests it's a relic left by an unknown precursor race.<br><br>In a presumably meaningless coincidence, the quake seems to have occurred at the same time as the final message from the black hole in [black hole system name]. |trigger = * {{iconify|Entropic Recursion|24px}} unlocked |mtth = 320 days |options = {{option |option_text = This merits study.|effect = * Issue Special Project: Investigate the Loop Temple}} {{option |option_text = Ominous.|effect = * Issue Special Project: Investigate the Loop Temple}} {{option |option_text = {{icon|spiritualist}}{{icon|fanatic spiritualist}} A way has been opened for us.|effect = * Issue Special Project: Investigate the Loop Temple}} }} {{Event |version = Timeless |event_name = The Loop Temple: Time and Stone |event_text = [[File:Evt metropolis.png|center]]<br>Our scientists have learned a great deal about the subterranean temple, but some questions remain. A roof aperture, along with the radial altar, suggests it was once a solar calendar; but it's so badly damaged by the earthquake that we can't be certain. If the builders found particular dates important, we'll never know which ones. We've had better luck with the "unknown alphabet." It's a debased variant of a better-known hieratic script - not an alien language at all - and we've successfully deciphered it. The temple is dedicated to the "Waiting Worm" or the {{yellow|Worm-in-Waiting}}. Most of the inscriptions are sonorous, poetic invocations requesting its appearance or, if read in the other direction, its departure. There is also a body of inscriptions describing the "operations of the universe," which our more excitable archaeologist swears contains references to advanced field equations - nothing new to us, but very impressive for a temple of this vintage. We have yet to find a physicist who's prepared to go on record as agreeing that the references are meaningful, though.<br><br>The temple holds no cosmic secrets or alien weapons, as far as we can tell. But its dark spaces have a distinctive, menacing beauty, and the poetry of the invocations to the Worm-in-Waiting becomes fashionable. They are set to popular music; they are published in collections. |trigger = * The Loop Temple: Signs in the Stone |triggered only = * Finishing the ''Investigate the Loop Temple'' special project |options = {{option |option_text = {{icon|spiritualist}}{{icon|fanatic spiritualist}} {{Hover box|A wisdom from the faith of our ancestors. What was, will be. Increases planet happiness, among other things.|Make the Loop Temple a place of pilgrimage.}}|effect = * {{yellow|Loop Temple Pilgrims' Way}} modifier added, giving the following effects: {{iconify|Happiness}} {{green|+10%}} * Research option gained: {{iconify|Doctrine: Strange Loop|24px}}}} {{option |option_text = {{Hover box|Something from our past. What was, will be.|Open the Loop Temple to the public.}}|effect = * {{yellow|Loop Temple Visitor Center}} modifier added, giving the following effects: {{iconify|Happiness}} {{green|+5%}} * Research option gained: {{iconify|Doctrine: Strange Loop|24px}}}} {{option |option_text = {{Hover box|Let's limit access to those who need it.|Reserve the Temple for academic study only.}}|effect = * Society Research Gained: {{icon|society}} 300-10000 * Research option gained: {{iconify|Doctrine: Strange Loop|24px}}}} {{option |option_text = {{Hover box|Better safe than sorry.|There is something wrong here. Show leadership by sealing the Temple.}}|effect = * Influence Gained: {{icon|influence}} 100-600}} }} </div>
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