Unnamed Survey World 1

The **Unnamed Survey World 1** (for lack of a better name) is the world surveyed by Mensah's PreservationAux team during All Systems Red. Advertised for its natural resources, it became the center of a conspiracy when the corporate entity GrayCris found Alien Remnants and tried to keep this information secret.

This planet has a ring, which is visible from the planet's surface. Its atmosphere is breathable for humans, but unhealthy for extended periods of time. There are at least two continents on the planet, with an ocean of water between them.

## Locations

### First Assessment Zone

All Systems Red starts out with part of the PreservationAux team being attacked by local fauna during their assessment of a coastal island. This island is at least ten kilometers across, and has low hills, short grass, and large craters along the shoreline. There are 'birdlike thngs', 'puffy floaty things', and a giant tunneling fauna with an enormous mouth.  (This specimen is later referred to as 'Hostile One', and may have cilia.)

### PreservationAux Habitat

The PreservationAux Habitat consists of a set of interconnected domes laid out at the center of their team's overall assessement area.

The habitat includes an area for 'Medical', a security ready room, a mess hall, a main hub, and sleeping cabins. Outside of the habitat there are two 'hoppers' (airborn transportation), one large and one small. This habitat also has an emergency beacon and launchsite set up close enough to trigger in the event of an emergency, but far enough to launch safely.

### Missing Map Section

PreservationAux noticed an area on their maps was missing from their survey packages. This area was outside (but not far from) their assessment range, and was the first place they went to while investigating the issues with their survey packages. The area consists of a plain, and includes a scattering of lakes, small clusters of trees, and lots of dark, glass-like rock. There is also at least one hot, acidic mud pit, which Ratthi gets briefly caught in.

There are several sections of this area where the team's maps seem to persistently glitch. Later they discover that this is the result of alien remnants buried underground.

### DeltFall Habitat

The DeltFall Habitat is larger than the PreservationAux Habitat, housing at least thirty surveyors, and consisting of three linked habitats.

### GrayCris Habitat

The GrayCris Habitat is similar to DeltFall's in size, housing at least thirty humans. It is surrounded by trees, ravines, and rocky plateaus. This is where GrayCris tries to lure PreservationAux to kill them, and where Murderbot and Mensah trick them instead.

## References

1. ↑ *The planet had a ring, which from our current position dominated the horizon when you looked out to sea.* Chapter One, All Systems Red.
2. ↑ We had an environmental system, but no air locks, as the planet’s atmosphere was breathable, just not particularly good for humans for the long term. *Chapter One, All Systems Red.*
3. ↑ *This assessment zone was a barren stretch of coastal island, with low, flat hills rising and falling and thick greenish-black grass up to my ankles, not much in the way of flora or fauna, except a bunch of different-sized birdlike things and some puffy floaty things that were harmless as far as we knew. The coast was dotted with big bare craters, one of which Bharadwaj and Volescu were taking samples in. [...] As I scrambled down the sandy slope, I could already hear Mensah over the emergency comm channel, yelling at someone to get the hopper in the air now. They were about ten kilos away, working on another part of the island, so there was no way they were going to get here in time to help. [...] The hostile that had just exploded up out of the ground had a really big mouth,* Chapter One, All Systems Red.
4. ↑ *I didn’t want to put Bharadwaj down because something in my abdomen was severely damaged and I wasn’t sure I could pick her up again. I ran my field camera back a little and saw I had gotten stabbed with a tooth, or maybe a cilia. Did I mean a cilia or was that something else? They don’t give murderbots decent education modules on anything except murdering, and even those are the cheap versions. I was looking it up in HubSystem’s language center when the little hopper landed nearby. I let my helmet seal and go opaque as it settled on the grass.* Chapter One, All Systems Red
5. ↑ *Our habitat is a pretty standard model, seven interconnected domes set down on a relatively flat plain above a narrow river valley, with our power and recycling system connected on one side. We had an environmental system, but no air locks, as the planet’s atmosphere was breathable, just not particularly good for humans for the long term. [...] We picked the location because it’s right in the middle of the assessment area, and while there are trees scattered through the plain, each one is fifteen or so meters tall, very skinny, with a single layer of spreading canopy[...]* Chapter One, All Systems Red.
6. ↑ *Each survey team has its own beacon, set up a safe distance from the habitat.* Chapter Three, All Systems Red.
7. ↑ *The missing map section wasn’t that far outside our assessment range so we were there before I made a dent in the backlog of serials I’d saved to my internal storage. Mensah told the others, “We’re coming up on it.” We had been traveling over heavy tropical forest, where it flowed over deep valleys. Suddenly it dropped away into a plain, spotted with lakes and smaller copses of trees. There was a lot of bare rock, in low ridges and tumbled boulders. It was dark and glassy, like volcanic glass. [...] Close up the rocky patches still looked like glass, mostly black, but with different colors running into each other.* Chapter Three, All Systems Red.
8. ↑ He had walked into what they called a hot mud pit and I’d had to pull him out. We were both covered with acidic mud to the waist.
9. ↑ *Bharadwaj had figured that out last night. The unmapped sections weren’t an intentional hack, they were an error, caused by the remnants that were buried under the dirt and rock. This planet had been inhabited at some point in its past, which meant it would be placed under interdict, open only to archeological surveys. Even the company would abide by that.* Chapter Seven, All Systems Red.
10. ↑ *They weren’t part of my contract and had their own SecUnits, the standard one per ten clients.* Chapter Two, All Systems Red
11. ↑ There were three SecUnits who were not me on this planet, and that was dangerous enough. *Chapter Four, All Systems Red*
12. ↑ *DeltFall had established their camp in a wide valley surrounded by high mountains. A spiderweb of creek beds cut through the grass and stubby trees. They were a bigger operation than ours, with three linked habitats, and a shelter for surface vehicles, plus a landing area for two large hoppers, a cargo hauler, and three small hoppers.* Chapter Four, All Systems Red
13. ↑ As we got closer we had a visual on the site. It was a low plateau, surrounded by trees. Their habitat was visible to the west. Because the trees encroached on their camp site, their domes and vehicle landing pad were elevated on wide platforms. The company required this as a security feature if you wanted your base to be anywhere without open terrain around it. It cost extra, and if you didn’t want it, it cost even more to guarantee your bond. It was one of the reasons I thought my great idea would work. In the open area on the plateau were seven figures, four SecUnits and three humans in the color-coded enviro suits, blue, green, and yellow. It meant they had one SecUnit and probably twenty seven–plus humans back at their habitat, if they had followed the rule of one rental SecUnit per ten humans. I sat us down below the plateau, on a relatively flat rock, the view blocked by brush and trees.