I don't know where the hell you've been, but it's about time you got here. Something instantaneously (or so it seems) removed you from the pod but we detected no signal... It confused all of our equipment. This terminal lacks the ability to receive your responses, so I can't run any tests or ask any questions yet, but there will be plenty of time for that when you're done here. This is the planet Coruli. The Falions used the electrical energy of the near-constant stormy weather to power this settlement (quite ingenious), which was known as "The Black City" by Falions in the surrounding systems. It isn't hard to see why- the entire settlement is built from the black basalt present in the crust of the planet. There is almost surely some data here that will be of help to you. Structural damage is abundant, but most of
the machinery in the city is still in working order. Try and find your way underground, that's where they would have put anything important. I might add that a Ph'for vessel has recently appeared near the edge of the system and is fast moving in our direction. Hopefully it's just a routine patrol and we will not be noticed. Coruli's atmosphere should hide the Virulent as long as the Ph'for are a reasonable distance away. I doubt there's anything hostile here, so there is no need to provide you with more ammunition and such for the time being.
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This gate separates this Northern part of the city from the rest. You'll need to get through it to reach any of the underground areas.
<checkpoint 4>
Inexplicably, the aforementioned Ph'for vessel seems to be slowing down as it nears this planet. In addition, several other Ph'for vessels are approaching the system. However, they still don't seem to know we're here, so they must be here for some other reason. I can't imagine anything they could accomplish by visiting this place... it's totally void of any particularly useful weaponry... They're sending down a small transport. You'll have visitors soon. If I try to bring you back to the ship, they'll detect it. Trying to land the ship in a secluded area of the planet is also too risky at this point. All we can hope for is that they'll finish their business here and leave. The switch shown here will open a storage area which should contain some weapons intended for emergency use.
<checkpoint 3>
The storage area is located here. I'll try to reach you again once you're underground. Good luck.
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This was the city resident's main living area, comfortably and safely sealed off from anything that could be dangerous. Most of it is illusion, it isn't really exposed to the sky as it seems to be. If there's anything in the settlement that could be useful to us, you'll find it here. Search the area for computers of any kind. To the left is a surprisingly intact map of the area that I found upon searching this computer when you logged in. I don't think you need to worry about the Ph'for in here, I doubt they could have followed you. Speaking of the Ph'for, though, about 10 ships are currently swarming around the planet, seemingly looking for something. I've got no idea how this could have happened, but you need to hurry. The Virulent won't stay hidden forever... hopefully there's a terminal in here
somewhere with a teleporter powerful enough to get through the atmosphere... I'm currently running a scan to see if there is. I've deduced that the safest course of action at this point is to bring you back to the ship once you're done here and then get out of the system as fast as possible (run like hell). One more thing... I've got a rather strange reading from the East side of this area... apparently, there are humans here. Seems impossible, so you should probably check it out. If it turns out there are humans here, I'll try and get them out upon contact with you using whatever teleporters are present. Good luck.
Yes! This is it! There's no time to analyze it now, I'm downloading the contents of this computer to the ship... I fear we may have been detected. It is imperitive that we leave this system now. There's a terminal with advanced transport capabilities just down the hallway, hurry there as fast as you can.
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I have detected an absolutely massive explosion in a nearby star system labeled in the data base only as "The Garden". Such a monumental explosion could only have been caused by something such as the destruction of a planet or a small star going nova. We have only a few minutes before the shock waves hit us. The humans are all safely aboard the Virulent and I have already begun to move away from Coruli. ***********PREPARE FOR TRANSPORT***********
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