Hazardous Research

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## Description

Doctor Francesca Tellano, an Omnidyne-M scientist, is leading a research project involving a strange phenomenon that has been observed in both New Eden and Devil’s Tusk. Toxic Aranha are a known and well documented species, but in recent weeks, reports have been popping up of other aranha species that appear to have been contaminated by the Toxic Aranha’s toxins. Omnidyne-M is working on discovering exactly why this toxic effect suddenly began jumping species in the interest of potentially applying similar effects to some of their offensive technology.

This event ran between Friday, August 22nd at 5:00pm PDT and Friday, September 12th at 5:00pm PDT (2014). It may return again.

## Encounters

### Toxic Aranha Nest

The nests of these strange Toxic Aranha provide valuable samples that will aid Dr. Tellano in her research. If you come across one of these nests in the wild, they will air drop you a supply of disruptors that you activate by picking them up and attaching them to the nest. Once you have attached enough disruptors, the nest will spill samples to the ground. You can repeat this process multiple times to release more samples, and you will need to collect as many of these samples as you can and place them into a collection container before they expire. The rewards gained from the completion of this encounter will scale based on the number of samples you manage to collect.

### Toxic Surface Deposit

Toxic Surface Deposits are Surface Deposits that have been contaminated by the toxin that Dr. Tellano and her team are studying. The contents of these contaminated deposits are extremely valuable to their research, and if you come across one in the world, they will pay you for your assistance in collecting them. To collect these samples you must start by breaking open the deposit using either a Scan Hammer or a Sonic Detonator. Once the deposit is opened and the contents released, they need to be arcfolded back to the lab. To accomplish this, a series of Transponders will be deployed around the deposit. These Transponders will take a little time to charge up and when they’re doing that, they have a habit of attracting unwanted attention. You will need to defend these transponders from an onslaught of creatures until they complete their charge and safely arcfold the samples back to the lab. If any Transponder gets disabled the charge up timer will pause, and you’ll need to interact with it to reactivate the device and restart the count down. Once the deposit is destroyed and the samples are exposed to the air, they will only remain viable for so long, so you have to make sure to complete the arcfold before they expire!

## Rewards

Each successfully completed mission, you receive Omnidyne-M Vouchers, Crystite and the chance at a random item.

There are vendors in most if not all POI's offering the following items that can be traded for the vouchers.

 Warpaint Unlock: Toxic | 200 | Battleframe paint

 Amazonian Grenade Launcher: L37 | 198

## Video Playthrough

* LoR NiKoN - Toxic Surface Deposit
* LoR NiKoN - Both events simultanously