Cadmus Ridge, Rathmore Chaos, Europa
The Guardian helps the Exo Stranger archive information on Europa by scanning objects in the environment.
The Guardian scans the abyss at the edge of Cadmus Ridge.
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Exo Stranger: The entrance to Europa's ocean lies at the bottom of the abyss. Twenty-five kilometers straight down.
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Exo Stranger: This abyss reaches Europa's subsurface ocean. A BrayTech camera still floats down there, amongst arctic plankton and bacterial colonies.
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Exo Stranger: Expedition rovers, BrayTech employees: many were sacrificed to the study of this ravine. Not that Clovis Bray cared.
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Exo Stranger: Chasms like these crisscross all over this moon, allowing radioactive ions to flow into the depths of its dark ocean.
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Exo Stranger: BrayTech researchers dropped a camera down there once. You wouldn't believe what they saw swimming around in the dark.
The Guardian scans one of BrayTech’s exterior panels.
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Exo Stranger: The Europan construction was BrayTech’s most expensive project by far. But it paid off. Centuries later and still intact.
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Exo Stranger: To say Europa presented an architectural challenge is putting it mildly. What these roofs can withstand is an engineering miracle.
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Exo Stranger: The exterior paneling was designed to hold up against subarctic temperatures, radiation, and 50 kilotons of blast force.
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Exo Stranger: That paint job had a use beyond aesthetics. All the buildings were painted so they could be seen even in a whiteout.
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Exo Stranger: Gale force winds, kilotons of snow and ice, radiation bombardments. And still, centuries later, this roof stands intact.
The Guardian scans Eventide’s emergency fuel tank reserves.
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Exo Stranger: These fuel tanks were our emergency reserves. Which Clovis drained for his research trips. So when an emergency came… well…
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Exo Stranger: Fuel was a precious resource on Europa. Clovis and I argued over it constantly. He won, in the end. And the people of Eventide suffered for it.
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Exo Stranger: These tanks once held fuel — for Eventide. But Clovis prioritized research over human lives. When people needed them most, they were empty.
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Exo Stranger: Fuel reserves. I insisted, in case we needed to evacuate. Which we might’ve done, if Clovis hadn’t wasted it all.
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Exo Stranger: Eventide required an enormous amount of fuel to stay up and running, but it paled in comparison to the Exo Factory.