Exploration ship
SRV (Scarab or Scorpion)
Surface scanner
Difficulty Beginner
Duration
Max distance
You drop off your very last cargo of painite at Nasmyth Station in the Sekhemet system and take the opportunity to stop for a meal.
This station looks like any other refining station, although you sense something heavy in the air. Normally, it wouldn't have caught your attention, but this time it's different.
Despite the oppressive atmosphere, you settle at the bar to enjoy a local meal…
You cross the station and arrive in the rest room.
As you take a seat at the bar, you spot the barmaid at the other end, busy putting away clean dishes. She eventually sees you and takes your order.
Nasmyth Station’s bar
Daily Nasmyth: Six Years On, the Mystery of the Thetis Persists
Six years ago, Thetis became the scene of an unexplained tragedy.
This peaceful generational vessel, which employed many people from Sekhemet, suffered a strange attack that forced its passengers to kill each other. To this day, the cause and perpetrator remain a mystery.
The area around Thetis remains abandoned and dangerous. The authorities strongly advise against any exploration, fearing that the original threat is still present.
You’re so engrossed in this new mystery that you even forget that your meal has just been served.
Nasmyth Station’s famous cherry tomato soup is no match for the Thetis drama.
You swallow the entire meal without even thinking about the taste and, without looking back, leave the bar and head for the hangar.
Nefertem 6 a
Your ship emerges from supercruise and at last you see the generational ship you’ve been told about.
You don’t yet know what horrors took place here, but you’re about to find out.
Thetis generation ship
MADNESS AND GHOSTS 1/5:
Still all quiet out here in the black. Just had our very first ninth-gen child born on ship.
That takes the current population to 17,401. Other than that, nothing out of the ordinary. Apart from reports from some residents at the northern end of C-Deck. They’ve heard some kind of strange whispering sound coming from their apartment comms unit. I’m sure it’s nothing, but I’ve dispatched a member of tech to investigate.
MADNESS AND GHOSTS 2/5:
We have an emergency situation on board. Some kind of epidemic, it’s driving people insane. I’ve managed to source it to a digital signal that keeps broadcasting within the comms array.
It started on C-Deck, but now the entire population of decks C to F have been massacred. They just went crazy and started killing each other. I’ve isolated the signal, so it’s stopped for now. Just trying to identify the source. It should be easy enough to delete the beacon if I can find the right frequency.
I wanna know what the message says, but I’m… I’m just too scared to listen.
MADNESS AND GHOSTS 3/5:
I’ve done it. I’ve managed to decrypt the signal and identify the source. But it’s even more confusing than I thought. The signal originates from an uninhabited planet we passed 15 light years ago.
Who sent it and how it managed to infect the comms array I have no idea. That’s the good news. The bad news is, I heard the message.
I was trying to run it through the translator and I forgot the speaker was on. It’s the same message relayed again and again and again – it’s more a whisper than anything else;
it says, "kill them all"
MADNESS AND GHOSTS 4/5:
Blood. Blood everywhere.
It’s spread on the walls.
People have started writing words in it but it’s a script I can’t identify.
I’m alone now on the comms deck.
Pearson was the last one with me but I had to I had to stab him in the throat to stop him… stop him…
I can’t remember what I had to stop him doing but… he’s dead now.
I can hear people out there. Some of them are still walking around. Some of them are barely breathing. I have to find them.
I have to silence them. I have to…
MADNESS AND GHOSTS 5/5:
C_mm_ Lo_ 000.0.00 ….k.l……h.m……..l……………….
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Your journey comes to an end when you come face to face with this moon, which undoubtedly holds an interesting discovery in store for you.
You’re convinced that a ship from the Thetis came here!
The mysterious moon
The sight of that crashed ship makes your blood run cold. Someone must have escaped from the Thetis and taken refuge here, on this moon.
You get out with your SRV and walk around the carcass.
Crashed ship
Thanks to the data collected by your probes, you can easily find the facility that sheltered the Thetis survivor.
Unfortunately, it seems to have been abandoned for some time…
The abandoned base
SURVEY TEAM 43 1/5:
Survey Team 43, Commander’s Log.
Ever since we saw that light show in Sector 12, Hopkins has been acting oddly. He’s become reclusive and aggressive, and to be honest I’m starting to worry about him.
I think in the morning we’ ll get him checked over by the medic, make sure nothing’s wrong.
I’ve called command and requested an evac team for Hopkins. He needs medical care that we simply can’t provide.
They should only take a few days to get here, we can hold the fort till then.
SURVEY TEAM 43 2/5:
Command come in we need help.
Hopkins escaped custody. He went mad, talking about some mission. He made no sense. Jenkins, Greer and Davies are all dead. We need backup now!
Damn it he’s taken out the comms! There is no way for us to contact command.
If the rescue team doesn’t hurry up there won’t be anyone to rescue.
SURVEY TEAM 43 3/5:
Is this thing transmitting?
Hello? Anyone?
Control, if you read me, whatever you do, don’t come down here. It’s not safe.
He’s coming, I’ve got to go.
SURVEY TEAM 43 4/5:
I don’t have long. I think he knows where I am.
There are no survivors. I’m the last one left.
My god! He’s found me!
SURVEY TEAM 43 5/5:
Rescue Team 88 reporting.
We’ve found a survivor.
He’s not saying much, just mumbles about his mission. He’s in pretty bad shape and the rest of the crew didn’ t survive whatever attacked them out there.
We’ll bring him back to base. 88 out.
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The cryptic wake was crystal clear and you followed it without question.
But it’s not until you arrive that you realize what this place is really about…
Thargoid remains
You come face to face with the wreckage of a SRV from rescue team 88.
Judging by the signs of battle, they must have attacked the Thargoid with everything they had…
But at least they took this atrocious creature with them to the grave!
Strange Thargoid device
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