The Hunt for the Hyacinth

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Event chains

Events

Empire event chains

Habitable Worlds Survey

Comet Sighted

Fleet Maneuvers

Horizon Signal

Mass Extinction Through the Ages

Radical Cult

Sublight Exploration Probes

Wanderlust: Rogue Scientist

**The Hunt for the Hyacinth**

 Fountain of Youth

 Genetic Crossroads

 On the Shoulders of Giants

 Homesick

 The Cost of Freedom

 The Fear of the Dark

 The Guest

Anomaly event chains

Drifting Battlefield

Gas Giant Signal

Impossible Organism

Limbo

Orbital Speed Demon

Shrines to the Old Gods

The Ransomeers

 42 Years and 3 Days

 Lost Amoeba

Colony event chains

A New Species

Abandoned Terraforming Equipment

Ancient Drones

Dancing Plague

Feral Overload

Hidden Vault

Impossible Corrie

Metallic Puddles

Mharin Kharin

Migrating Forests

Mushroom Picking

Myrmeku Activity

Nemma World

Rise of the Manifesti

Subterranean Civilization

The Doorway

Underground Vault

Unexpected Mineral Seams

Primitive civilization event chains

Anti-Alien Task Force

Missing Scientist

Rogue Agent

Shuttle Crash

 Propulsion Proponent Proclamation

The Hunt for the Hyacinth is a short and linear event chain available only to the **Commonwealth of Man** preset empire. It will start as soon as the game starts and is entirely optional. It is mostly narrative, with only the final event having a minor reward.

### The Hunt for the Hyacinth

 *We have found no traces of the four ark ships that passed through the wormhole before the Chrysanthemum arrived at Unity. One ship, the Hyacinth, was scheduled to make the passage after us, and the Chrysanthemum's long-range sensors reported a brief energy spike from the wormhole shortly before it destabilized and vanished.

Assuming the Hyacinth survived the passage and made it to our galactic neighborhood, the ark ship has so far failed to establish contact with us. It might be a good idea to search nearby systems for signs of its presence.*

Playing as the Commonwealth of Man preset empire

**Indeed. Make it so.*** Point of interest: Survey Systems

### System Surveyed

 *The [science ship name] has managed to isolate a residual ion trail in the [system name] system that is identical to the one that was produced by the Chrysanthemum's engines. It must have originated from the Hyacinth!

Although the faint ion trail is over a century old, Science Officer [scientist name] has managed to track it on an outbound trajectory towards a previously uncharted star. We have entered its coordinates into the Situation Log.*

The Hunt for the Hyacinth

**The Hyacinth must be there.*** Point of interest: Investigate System

### Hyacinth Found

 *We have located the Hyacinth! The great ark ship is parked in a stable orbit over [planet name]. No power signatures have been detected from within its hull, and we are not picking up any distress beacons. An armed boarding party should be sent to investigate the ship's interior.*

System Surveyed

**Gear up.*** Issue Special Project: Board the Hyacinth

### Hyacinth Boarded

 *Our boarding party has returned from the Hyacinth with a gruesome report. Human remains in amounts consistent with the ark ship's entire compliment of a quarter million colonists were found on board. Most seem to have died from starvation, but there were also signs of small-arms fire and cannibalism...

We were able to recover the captain's log from the archives on the Hyacinth's bridge.*

Hyacinth Found

**Bring it up.*** Displays a log of what happened to the Hyacinth

### Final Conclusion

 *We now have a pretty clear picture of the grim fate that befell the Hyacinth, her crew and the colonists she was carrying. Had circumstances been different, it could very well have been the Chrysanthemum drifting above [planet name] like a silent tomb. A sobering reminder of the dangers humanity is faced with in a cold and uncaring universe.

The Hyacinth will now be towed into low orbit of Unity and converted into a museum, as soon as the human remains have been cleared out. Despite its tragic history, the ark ship is almost identical to the one that brought our ancestors here from Earth and our sociologists could learn much from it.*

Hyacinth Boarded

**Perhaps something good will come out of this.*** Society Research Gained:  500-100000