Sublight Exploration Probes

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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

Sublight Exploration Probes is one of the 4 story event chains that can take place very early, having a 10% chance to occur. Unlike the other 3 event chains Sublight Exploration Probes requires waiting a year rather than a few days to start.

### Sublight Exploration Probes

 *Before we developed faster-than-light travel, several sublight exploration probes were dispatched from [capital name] at near-relativistic speeds towards nearby systems. The scientists who developed the probes naively included sensitive information about our culture in their memory cores as a form of greeting to alien civilizations.

It has now been realized that this data could potentially be used against us. We need to track down these probes before they are found by someone - or something - unsympathetic to our species!*

Discovered alien life

* Adds 4 systems 2-6 hyperlanes away as points of interest in the Situation Log

Sublight Probe Discovered

*[science ship name] has detected one of our missing sublight probes in the [current system name] system. We should begin recovery efforts as soon as possible.*

Sublight Exploration Probes

**Indeed.*** Issue Special Project: Recover Probe

Modified Probe

*A sensor sweep from the [science ship name] has revealed one of our sublight probes in the [current system name] system, but it seems to have been... altered somehow. Modifications of an alien origin have been attached to its hull, and the probe's energy signature is far greater than it should be.We are receiving a transmission from it!*

Sublight Exploration Probes

**On screen.*** Modified Probe becomes hostile

Subspace Anomaly

*The [science ship name] has detected a massive subspace anomaly in the [current system name] system. It appears to be centered on one of our missing sublight probes!*

Sublight Exploration Probes

**We must proceed with caution.*** A Void Cloud appears above the sublight probe

Probe Recovered

*We have recovered the sublight probe in the [current system name] system. The sensor telemetry it has collected over the years has provided us with a complete survey of all planetary bodies within the system*

Sublight Probe Discovered

**Excellent.*** The point of interest system is surveyed

Probe Destroyed

*Little remains of the strange alien modifications that our missing sublight probe had been subjected to, but we did manage to collect some valuable engineering data from the wreckage. Its memory bank was also salvaged, and from it we have extracted survey data of the entire [current system name] system.*

Modified Probe

**Excellent.*** Engineering Research Gained:  90-10000
* The point of interest system is surveyed

Anomaly Defeated

*We have dealt with the hostile subspace entity that our missing probe had attracted. Why such a creature would be drawn to an archaic unmanned spacecraft is a mystery, but the probe appears to be largely undamaged.It has been recovered by our forces, and we have extracted detailed survey readings on the entire [current system name] from its memory banks. In addition, the residual energy left behind by the subspace anomaly has generated a large amount of valuable physics data for our scientists.*

Subspace Anomaly

**Excellent.*** Physics Research Gained:  90-10000
* The point of interest system is surveyed

### Ion Trail

 *The [science ship name] has picked up a signal from a discarded signal buoy belonging to one of our missing sublight probes in the [current system name] system. There is an ion trail leading away from the buoy on a trajectory towards another star, suggesting that someone has towed the probe there for unknown reasons.*

Sublight Exploration Probes

**Let us see where the trail leads.*** Adds another system as point of interest in the Situation Log

### Probes Collected

 *We have successfully collected all of our missing sublight probes! The detailed information they held on our culture is now safe from prying alien photoreceptors.

With their combined sensor telemetry, we have been able to fully survey a number of additional neighboring systems.*

Sublight Exploration Probes

* Physics Research Gained:  90-10000
* Energy Credits Gained:  100-500
* All systems neighboring the capital are surveyed