Daedalus Base

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The Daedalus Base was built on the north pole of Daedalus by an independent group of Mondites. Primarily built to study the Phyxx ruins, later it included facilities for Dr. Amet Mastaba's ABA/AFA project. It was a strange mix of digging equipment, medical facilities and little of something else.

## Building

When the *Kasenko* reached Daedalus, on d1156 a camp was established on the rim of the Mount Sion crater and the following days personnel, and equipment were deplyed from the ship, and established the preliminary shelters. The *Kasenko* landed inside the crater and between d1179-1268 its superstructure was dismantled in order to use its raw materials to construct the base.

On d1269 ground was broken within the side of the crater to establish the building of the formal base. The interior was being excavated until d1359 when the Acid Lake inside the crater inexplicably rose and engulfed almost all of the available land mass. On d1413 Commander Wilm was killed in a construction accident, when a large flooring section broke free of its support and fell on top of him. By d1540 the construction of the base was completed (although more than 100 days behind schedule).

## Destruction

On d1895 a foreign substance clogged the air circulator, and there was a ventilation system, and temperature rose in the Corridor to Main airlock. A repair bot found and removed the object, and replaced the motor of the air circulator.

Patrol robot 89 needed sensor replacement on the Secrutiy level Corridor. It had to bre repaired with SPs 800 or older, with limited viewing distance and impaired intruder detection And the refit would take 36 hours.

The cryogenics Fluid Tank in the Cryo Room had to be refilled. Robot 113 on the Tower had to replace its collision detector.

A large animal destroyed the Digging Machine at the Tunnel Basin, and logged a request for replacement.

In the Barracks there was a battery discharge in the maintenance robot. The electrical short in lower level mechanics was repaired, and the battery was replaced with a freshly charged one by repair bot.

One of the restraints of the examination table of the Operating Room was broken and repaired.

Soon after it was descovered that "Drogg" had escaped, and the doors of the Cellblock were closed.

There was a short in flooring subsystems, many sensors went off-line and maintenance data was inaccurate. Robots were unable to repair the frequent damage reports.

The power went down and Mert ordered the Reactor Room to dampen the reactor immediately. Then "Drogg" was detected in the Cooling Tanks, having penetrated one. The cooling systems were rendered inoperative. Reactor Room reported that the cooling systems went off and the temperature of the Reactor was increasing rapidly. Class 1 Reactor Emergency Alert was declared. They switched to emergency power supply and attempted to take the reactor off line. A power surge knocked out the Reactor Control Redundancy Systems. All Team Three Personnel were called to the Control Room, to wear a Hardsuit and proceed to the Reactor Room.

Soon after Class 2 tremors of unknown origin caused damage to multiple subsystems throughout the base. Automated damage report flooded the system, and the auto-maintenance system was shut off. Soon after the reactor was breached and toxic dose radiation leaked to Support Level, while the temperature of plasma field increased dangerously. The level had to be evacuated immediately but the elevator tubeway was jammed and prevented the orderly evacuation. The level had a black out and there was no light along the Main Airlock Corridor making impossible to clear out the tubeway.

"Drogg" was seen in the Reactor Room and Team Three proceeded to confront it.

As the reactor's temperature increased, secondary shut off systems failed and Class 2 Reactor Emergency Alert declared. All Security level personnel were ordered to hold their posts. A third tremor followed. Sensor readings indicated that the tremors were caused by some uncontrolled reaction caused the tremors. Plasma field temperature exceeded level of normal safe shutdown procedures. Tayke proposed to evacuate Security level. All non-essential posts from Control Room and Guard Room evacuated. Automated security systems activated for Cellblock and Guard Room door was sealed. All non-essential subsystems went off.

All members of Team Three were eliminated in the Reactor Room.

In the Support level, subsystems monitor was utilized and someone attempted to override the seal of the level. As a response, the Control Room main monitor severed the connection of the Support subsystems to central computer, as it was too late to do anything for them.

At 7:34 it was ordered that all surviving non-essential peronnel should evacuate the base via Dropship 1 and wait further instructions in orbit. Amet Mastaba, who stayed to finish an operation with guards for protection, ordered all Control Room personnel to evacuate.

A fourth tremor caused more damage, and Class 3 Reactor Emergency was declared. A fifth tremor rendered the level structurally unsound and impassable and radiation leakage reached fatal levels there. A sixth tremor, and the force bar system on Cells 1 and 3 were short-circuited, and lighting system in Cell 2.

## Locations

1. Tower
2. Security level (Chaos Area)
	* Cellblock
	* Guard Room
	* Chaos Corridor
	* Cryo-room
		+ Cryo Tank
3. Control Area
	* Control Corridor
	* Operating Room
	* Reactor Room
	* Control Room
		+ Hangar
4. Landing Area
	* Basement Corridor
	* Main Airlock
	* Landing Pad
5. Support Level
	* Barracks
	* Rest Areas (?)
6. Rest Areas (?)