the masks

Nowadays no one is making the Masks. The masks. They were a pinnacle of human nanotechnology. Maybe they even breached the barriers. Unfolded the Triangle before us. Or let the primordial forces of the universe to notice us.

Sometimes, they hid a face. Or the face. But some Masks were so powerful that they created their host seemingly out of nothing. But there's no nothing. Even the high vacuum hosts numerous entities.

ZAXARN must be mentioned here. I'm sorry. 

1. One wearing it can meld with the Prophets to fully comprehend their words.
2. Hides from the dead. Ghastforms, apparitions, visitors from the Afterspace and so on.
3. Requires a sacrifice. But opens the Dimensional Doors.
4. Allows seeing the invisible forces.
5. Allows seeing the invisible entities - and to be seen by them.
6. Allows seeing the connections with pocket dimensions.
7. Senses blood, even ancient blood.
8. Allows to perceive the age of inanimate objects.
9. Constantly whispers lies.
10. Constantly whispers long strings of mysterious numbers.
11. Generates personal gravity field.
12. Generates personal antigravity field.
13. Reveals False Humans.
14. Reveals impossible geometries.
15. Reveals Vectors.
16. Allows seeing the flow of entropy. Feeds on it.
17. Allows to disappear in deep shadows. Accepts sacrifice to allow moving between shadows.
18. Allows to see in total darkness.
19. Allows understanding of forgotten tongues.
20. Reveals what's hidden. 

It's impossible for the Mask to be dormant. They always have wearers. And the wearers cannot be dormant either.

Prophets acknowledge the existence of the Masks. But their opinions vary. 

nanax mainframe

 

AUPH Corporation was controlling Nanax system from the days of first settlement to its utter destruction during the Second Corporate War.

All orbital shipyards were destroyed during conflict, as well as all planetary outposts.

Mainframe was found in the Deepbore Vault - a seed bank located one kilometer below the icy surface of the unnamed* moon of a gas giant, Nanax IV. 

We managed to retrieve the bank's contents before the tttttnrh arrived. 

Most of Mainframe's memory contents are either encrypted or corrupted.

We managed to recover some partial maps and star charts, as well as biological data regarding various plants, as well as agriculture-related equipment schematics.

The Deepbore Vault was a civilian installation.

MARK XVII LOW-GRAVITY HARVESTER BLUEPRINTS 
COLD STORAGE CONTAINER PROTOTYPE BLUEPRINTS
COLD STORAGE CONTAINER TYPE I BLUEPRINTS
COLD STORAGE CONTAINER TYPE II BLUEPRINTS
COLD STORAGE CONTAINER TYPE III BLUEPRINTS
ORBITAL HYDROPONICS TREATIES, volumes 5-14
ORBITAL HYDROPONICS MAIN PUMP BLUEPRINTS
ORBITAL HYDROPONICS OXYGENATOR BLUEPRINTS
BLACK ASH SEEDS
AUPH WHEAT SEEDS, variants 648, 652, 733, 734, 739-752, 1147
EUROPEAN** BEECH GENOME
CANADA** GOLDENROD GENOME
DESTROYING ANGEL GENOME

there are some warnings

*) Maybe it had name in the past. Most likely it had. But now the name is lost.
**) For some, namely the Seekers of the Source, these names have more value than all other retrieved relics and data. These names refer to places from the Origin Point - therefore are sacred.

iron pyramids

Ancient (~7Gy?????) alien structures made of iron compounds that weren't previously encountered anywhere.

They were discovered because the particular pattern of interference caused to sensors of the Explorer Drones. After analyzing the disturbances, crewed ships were sent to investigate. 

Zero Nomads, before their departure, had reportedly used their measuring devices on one of the Pyramid (which one?). They claimed that it beams a stream of energry through Nullspace. Years later, the Iyoa Vo was located by an unknown party by looking for the Nullspace-related disruptions.

There may be a connection between the Fallen Ones and the Pyramids. The Prophets started to regularly mention the demonic entities after the AFTERTHEPYRAMIDWAS touched by a human being:

'They Made The Pyramids As Conduits To Amass More And More Power But The Price Of Creating Them Was So High That The Entire Kingdom Collapsed The Entire Civilization Fell From Grace And Become Cut Off From The Core Banished Forever'

- The Blasphemous Prophet

There are five known Iron Pyramids*:

1. Orbiting the Norn Star on highly elliptical orbit (86-232 AU);
2. Near Kralmor's south pole;
3. Buried under the surface of Iyoa Vo;
4. Detected inside the Nehariel Nebula;
5. *) there are many reports about the Iron Pyramid present somewhere on Hephaestus but it wasn't directly located.

6(?) -> Pyramid in the Black Plains? Report of a Dying Explorer states he saw one, somewhere 'inside' the anomaly. 

ykthr tablets

YKTHAAR is the name of the system. Or nebula hiding it. Or the planet / moon / asteroid. Or the specific place.
Or all of them. 

It isn't the full transcription of the name. It should be saved anywhere, shouldn't be transmitted or spoken or recorded. It's ill-fated. It killed the Tablets' makers. Their entire civilization.

Look shattered but in fact they were meticulously designed. Fist-sized blocks of monocrystal, full of nano-channels. Technology used to create it far surpasses anything human. The crystal resembles opalescent zirconia.

Null Drive concepts and plans were extracted from the Tablets. They probably contain much more information contained inside but sadly, it's highly unlikely we'll ever decode it:

• The interface and the deciphering process are so complex that it requires Artificial Minds to perform the task
• It requires an Unascended Mind to operate the experimental interface and perform the research and deciphering process - Artificial Prophets seem to quickly get lost in it and switch to divination. Or the Tablets trigger the influx of visions.
• Sadly, there are no known Unascended Artificial Minds left. 

sentient uranium cube

• Communicates by fluctuating the emitted radiation levels. If it can be called communication - it just outputs data.
• (it means that by communicating, it is slowly 'killing itself')
• Bombarding it with neutrons to make communication two-way yielded no results.
• Bombarding it with electrons caused it to emit garbled, nonsensical output.
• (it causes it to suffer)
• Seems to shift slightly in size and proportions - but the fluctuations are minuscule, detectable only by laser measuring devices.
• It generates long and complex mathematical equations, as well as their solutions.
• Sometimes its output resembles sentences. So far the only thing we managed to determine except the numbers (it uses septenary system) is the punctuation.
• The cube asks lots of questions.
• Its sentience isn't confirmed - but the name - originating from the title of the first paper published after determining the punctuation of its 'sentences' - stuck. 
• Discovered somewhere in the REDACTED by Sol.