stationscale anomalies

Some worlds were seemingly abandoned, with their inhabitants leaving to follow the Vectors. Something had touched them. It wasn't the Destroyer. It might be something from 'deep inside' - or it was just an error. A 'deep error'.

There are four catalogued Abnormal Stationscale Installations. Orbit-wide avoidance advised.

1. Orbital Panel Array. Enormous (over 3000 meters in diameter), disk-like station, located on the orbit of Horararn - once terraformed water world, now almost entirely dead. OPA is far too big, orbiting far too low and with far too small angular speed to retain both its structural integrity and its orbit, yet it still exists. Few expeditions investigating the structure. Few survivors. Symptoms of extreme distress and mental trauma with no recollection of the past events, often without any memories at all.
2. Rose Habitat 1010.  Small, ancient habitat station on the orbit of Echel. Despite being about 14 meters in height and 6 meters in diameter, once entered, station becomes a seemingly endless labyrinth of rusty corridors, pipelines and rooms. Impossible geometries are prevalent, mapping impossible. No one who ventured deeper that nine rooms deep ever returned.
3. Fractal Polyhedron. Shapeshifting structure on the orbit of Duat. Regularly changes the number of its sides. Entering seems to be impossible. Object of interest of Polyhedrites. 
4. Towerfield Lantern. An automated beacon, remembering the days of Old Corporations, orbiting the Torskel III gas giant. It connects with the computers of the nearby ships, overwhelming its digital defenses with ease. Then it locks all systems and forces the vessels into the full-ahead plunge into the Torskel III's gaseous bowels. All surviving distress signals are mixed with garbled noise, resembling some kind of religious chanting.

fractal polyhedron

 

• Discovered on the orbit of Duat by the Explorer 3803. It was the last Relic Station discovered by the Explorer 3803.
• It appears to be a stationscale object made of metallic substance, most time flat and featureless.
• No clear openings - most of the time.
• It changes number of faces each seventeen revolutions around Duat. The process is almost instantaneous - especially for the object this size (about 1,31 seconds). 
• Its surface fractalizes during the process, then flattens again after the transfiguration. 
• It was an octahedron when discovered.
• It is almost impossible to observe the polyhedron for the long time. Causes irreversable degeneration of sensors and minds and spirits alike.

POLYHEDRITES claim to know about more of similar objects scattered throughout the Theion Sector. According to them, all other 'Fractal Altars' are much smaller than the one orbiting Duat.

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