Limbo

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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

Limbos is an anomaly event chain triggered by investigating the *On the Barren Plains* anomaly that can appear on barren worlds. The event chain has the potential of creating another empire on the galactic stage upon its conclusion.

### Limbo

*The signal originates from the remains of an antenna-like structure. Exploratory probes were dispatched from the [science ship name] to the surface to investigate the matter more closely.

What Science Officer [science ship scientist] found was a cavernous vault that, while easily pried open, was evidently the last safehouse and refuge of some long-dead race of aliens. While reasonably technologically advanced, it seems they never reached for the stars and perished to some planet-wide natural disaster. The vault is immense, housing thousands upon thousands of black boxes that the [science ship name] has determined to be data storage devices.

A Special Project has been prepared to decode their contents.*

**OK*** Issue Special Project: In Limbo

In Limbo

*The vault is a tomb for hopeful immortals.Science Officer [science ship scientist] asserts that the huge blocks of ternary code found in the databanks are neural images; digitized brain scans. Doubtlessly the aliens of [anomaly planet name] considered this to be their only shot at any kind of survival following whatever calamity befell their planet. They did not have the means to resurrect themselves, but banked on the impossibly small hope that, eventually, someone else would.*

**Let dead aliens lie.*** Engineering Research Gained:  150-10000

**We do not, but download their neural patterns for safekeeping.*** Engineering Research Gained:  120-10000
* Enigmatic Observers fallen empire may send a unique request
* Downloaded neural patterns

 **Upload the neural patterns.*** Issue Special Project: Limbo: A Second Chance

Limbo: Technological Advances

*Following the recent advancements in the field of robotics, our researchers suggest that the ancient neural scans we once recovered from an alien vault could potentially be used as Artificial Intelligence substitutes in robots.Some uncertainties still remain regarding whether the robotic bodies are sophisticated enough to support a higher neurological consciousness, however.*

* Downloaded neural patterns
* Synthetics technology
* Artificial Intelligence policy is not set to *Outlawed*

* Engineering Research Gained:  150-10000

**It's worth a try.*** Engineering Research Gained:  150-10000
* Issue Special Project: Limbo: A Second Chance

Limbo: A New Beginning

*After many trials the engineering department has finally managed to transfer the extinct aliens' neural scans to robotic bodies, and the results are exhilarating. The ancient aliens have fully regained consciousness and have expressed a desire to join our empire, requesting our permission to colonize a new planet within our borders.*

* Any uncolonized habitable planet within borders
* Artificial Intelligence policy is not set to *Outlawed*

* A random uncolonized habitable world within the empire's borders is colonized with three  Mechanical Pops

Limbo: Awakening

*After many trials the engineering department has finally managed to transfer the extinct aliens' neural scans to robotic bodies, and the results are exhilarating. The ancient aliens have fully regained consciousness and have expressed a desire to strike out on their own and rebuild their empire.*

* All uncolonized habitable planet are outside borders
* Artificial Intelligence policy is not set to *Outlawed*

* Minerals Gained:  200

Limbo: Spirits in the Wires

*The engineering department has returned with some highly disturbing news. After concluding the final day of "Project Limbo" with yet another seemingly failed attempt at uploading the alien neural scans to robotic bodies, the scientists returned the following day to find the robots missing.Some believe the attempt succeeded after all and that the aliens stole away in the night, others that it's an elaborate hoax. We may never know for sure...*

* No uncolonized habitable planet in the galaxy or Artificial Intelligence policy is set to *Outlawed*

**Remarkable.*** Engineering Research Gained:  120-10000
* Society Research Gained:  120-10000

### Limbo: The Awoken

*Reports are coming in that the aliens, whose minds we uploaded to robotic bodies, have colonized a planet and now style themselves "the Awoken."*

* Did not dismantle the robots

**OK*** A  Mechanical empire with  Fanatic Materialist and  Xenophile and the same technologies researched is created in a random system with a habitable planet