Cambridge Stellar Research, Surveillance Mission #4

[equinosz]

The AI drone has been towed into the hangar of the Equinox and taken closer to an ion storm, where they have released it.

During that time the three groups have searched the whole facility.
Not much of interesting have been found as the technological level of the builders were far inferior that of the current Sirius technology.
Most of the computers seemed to be running on an ion-powered system and were completely destroyed by the artificial ion storm.
Only some systems such as the life support, the station control, the shield generator and a few personal data disks were undamaged.
The team copied everything they found. The variety reached from simple personal logs,
over scientific logs about the use of ion as an energy source and plans of the underground complex,
up to blueprints of the now disabled defense units within the facility.
In one of scientific logs there was a reference to an "old floating robot"
which they found on the surface and from where they seemed to have the general idea of ion-powered systems.

The final report was written by Roy, and he stated that the life forms which lived at the planet extinguished
themselves thanks to the continuous fighting. Somehow they managed to obtain a technology they couldn't handle and finally vanquished their own race.
Most possibly they built some "too large" bombs, and managed to delete the life from their own planet.
Only the energy field which surrounded the old facility prevented every proof of the race's existance to be destroyed by their mistake.

After having packed all their stuff the scientists left the building and sent the report to their employer.

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