| Acid Anemone | Standard | *Anthobrachia necrolei*. A clonal stalk of large jellies, similar to Earth's stauromedusae. Each jelly remains moored to the stalk, rather than maturing into a free-swimming medusa.
1. Enormous size and hunger
Rather than feeding on prey, the necrolei gathers dead matter from the seawater. The size and height of the stalk are directly related to the rate of death and decay up-current.
2. Acid-yielding metabolism
The necrolei has adapted to low-oxygen seawater. It ferments much of the matter it collects in a central 'basket' stomach, a process which requires no oxygen and yields strong acids. The necrolei concentrates these acids around its eggs as a defense.
Assessment: large numbers of necrolei in this region indicate a bloom, a population explosion caused by a flood of nutrients. This is a poor sign for the health of the ecosystem and perhaps for the state of the global climate.
Produces egg clusters that can be processed into strong acid. |
| Acid Raion | — | Gelatinous pouch full of acid with properties useful in fabrication. |
| Acidic Raion Pouch | Flora | Gelatinous pouch full of acid with properties useful in fabrication. |
| Advanced Battery | Advanced Battery | Solid-state, high-capacity battery with a silver-carbon anode. Battery better. |
| Advanced Wiring Kit | — | Specialized wiring for sensitive electronics. Do not examine closely. No user comprehensible parts inside. |
| Aerated Feast | — | Whenever you surface, gain food |
| Aeroshell Sponge | Cabbage Shootroot Fruit | AeroshellSpongeItemDescription |
| Air Bladder | Tool | Rapid flotation bladder for emergency ascents. Can be inhaled to supply a few seconds of air to self and nearby divers. |
| Alcohol | — | Ethanol-methanol mix. Useful in chemistry and medicine. |
| Algae Block | Adaptations Stomach Required To Consume | Accumulated eldible algae from your skin -- delicious |
| Alien Ruins | — | Signal source detected on HUD. |
| Anita | — | Colony purser Anita Gottschall drowned near an angel comb.
-Anita believed the comb could help her digest this world's food
-You have already gained one effective adaptation from an angel comb
-Anita implied that the colonists feared hallucinations caused by a virus, and that she could feed the comb with her body
Anita may have been delirious. |
| Aquatic Reserves | — | If your Thirst reaches 0 you gain 10 Thirst. 20s cooldown |
| Armored fish | Fauna | Fish with hard, mineralized or plasticized armor. May cover some or all of the body. Associated with territorial behavior. Dangerous to humans, perhaps more so than predators: akin to Earthly hippopotami or rhinoceroses.
Known armored fish (such as the hammerhead) are highly divergent from other fish (such as the halfmoon), with different body plans, jaw structures, and sense organ layouts. This suggests an early split in their evolutionary history.
Earth analog: placoderms (extinct). |
| Atacamite | Mineral | Tabular green crystal. Trace substitutions give it anomalous thermo-magnetic behavior, enabling localized cooling. |
| Atacamite | Large Deposit | Atacamite Databank Entry |
| Axum Bacterial Culture | Mineral | Meticulously bred microbe colony used to kickstart Axum technologies such as metal farms. Not reproducible in standard fabricators. Do not eat. |
| Axum Computer Chip Recipe | — | — |
| Axum Etching Acid | — | — |
| Axum Etching Acid DNL | — | Concentrated acid, very dangerous. Used as a metal cleaner and catalyst for fabricating advanced electronics. |
| Axum Jar | — | Ornate decorative jar. |
| Axum Observatory | — | A towering structure built by aliens provisionally designated Axum.
-Built nearly a thousand years ago, but abandoned
-Clearly an astronomical observatory, but does not reach the ocean surface
-Front gate requires electrical power from an Axum generator
-Electrical lines lead deeper into the biome
Locating and repairing the generator may allow access. |
| Axum Pot | — | A recreation of native Protean pottery. |
| Axum Rebar Clump Deposit | Large Deposit | Large Deposit - Unknown |
| Axum Seat | — | Axum Seat blueprint |
| Axum Street Lamp | — | Consumes 2 energy per second |
| Axum Trashcan | — | Clean up the trash the Axum way |
| Axum Wall Lamp | — | Consumes 1 energy per second |
| Basic Battery | Basic Battery | Portable energy supply. Replace often. |
| Basic Fins | Fins | Simple diving fins that provide a small speed boost. |
| Basic First Aid Kit | — | Emergency medical satchel. Derived from Frontiersman medkits. |
| Battery Charger | — | While not submerged, recharge the held tool's battery |
| Battery Terminal | — | Recharges batteries. |
| Beacon | Beacon | Ultrasound buoy. Marks position with a signal. Manage with PDA. |
| Before Builder Tool | — | LOCATE HABITAT BUILDER TOOL BLUEPRINTS
FABRICATE HABITAT BUILDER TOOL
CHECK TRAINING/PREPARATION AREAS FOR NEW PRINTS. MAY CONTAIN SCANNABLE FRAGMENTS |
| Before Climate Lab | — | Access OBSERVATORY UPPER CHAMBER. Retrieve data.
Risk code: facet, andros. |
| Before Glyph Adaptation | — | Locate gene donor for EXPANDED VISUAL RANGE ADAPTATION. Perceive Axum glyph system. Decipher.
Risk code: genitor, quell. |
| Before Habitat | — | BEST GUESS LOCATION OF MAIN SETTLEMENT IS NORTH OF LIFEPOD. RANGE UNKNOWN.
RECOMMEND THOROUGH PREPARATIONS BEFORE DEPARTURE. FLARES MAY HELP DISTRACT ANY PREDATORS YOU ENCOUNTER.
DIRECTIVE ENDS. |
| Before Metal Farming | — | Improve resource extraction/generation. Stockpile metal for repairs to Axum POWER PLANT.
Risk code baseline. |
| Before Observatory | — | Investigate PROTECTED ZONE east of lifepod. Establish forward outpost.
Risk code: sierra, rhizome. |
| Before Observatory Interior | — | Repair and activate Axum POWER PLANT. Open Axum OBSERVATORY. Explore. Report.
Risk code: facet, gun. |
| Before Power Plant | — | Locate and repair Axum POWER SUPPLY. Trace electrical connections from Axum observatory. Descend.
Risk code: cardinal, cardinal. |
| Before Repair Tool | — | LOCATE BLUEPRINTS AND FABRICATE A REPAIR TOOL. SEVERAL WORK ORDERS ARE STANDING BY |
| Before Resonator_ Bloom Known | — | A DRILL OR RESONATOR WOULD ALLOW YOU TO MINE LARGE DEPOSITS FOR RAW MATERIALS
LOCATE BLUEPRINTS FOR AN IMPROVED MINING DEVICE |
| Before Resonator_ Bloom Unknown | — | LOCATE OR DEVISE A TOOL TO DESTROY VIRAL BIOFILMS AND CANKERS
EXISTING COLONIST SITES MAY CONTAIN BLUEPRINTS FOR A SOLVENT OR RESONATOR |
| Before Super Scanner | — | Locate SCANNER MODIFICATION to improve xenobiology/technology analysis. Fabricate. Deploy.
Be alert for predator attack. Risk code: warrant-4. |
| Before Tadpole Pens | — | RECOMMEND SORTIE TO HOT ZONE NORTHEAST
-LOCATE COLONIST FACILITIES IN REGION
-RETRIEVE LOGS
-DETERMINE NEXT COURSE OF ACTION |
| Before Welcome Center | — | LOCATE COLONY
IDENTIFY THREAT TO MISSION
RESTORE NOETIC ADVISOR NETWORK
40,000 SOULS ARE COUNTING YOU
YOU MAY WISH TO CONSULT THE SURVIVAL ADVISOR (MAIN MENU -> OTHER DATA) |
| BFJ | Fauna | *Dactylbrachia gigas*, the behemoth finger-legged jelly. A massive specimen with no Earthly analog.
1. Jellylike body plan
Even the largest terrestrial jellies are anatomically simple, with a gelatinous bell, a central stomach, and tentacles. By contrast, the BFJ (an acronym for Behemoth Finger-Legged Jelly) has complex organs and a sophisticated nervous system.
2. Gas bladders
Most of the BFJ's volume is occupied by gas bladders, controlled by a net of distributed nerves that automatically regulate buoyancy. Sedentary BFJs resting on the seafloor flood their gas bladders with seawater.
3. Multiple eyespot
The BFJ's eyes are differentiated into small, sharp-focus eyes and large wide-field arrays. They focus exclusively upward. Fine muscles in the rhopalia (eye clusters) can adjust the eye to focus through different classes of seawater and even air — suggesting the BFJ spends time at the surface of the sea.
4. Muscular arms
Unlike the trailing tentacles of most jellies, the BFJ's arms are muscular hydrostats like squid arms. Covered in finely developed sensory hairs, they do not seem to be used for predation. Instead, they seek out chemical resources in the seafloor. Methane-sensing organs are particularly dense at the tips of the arms.
5. Exhaustion
The index BFJ scanned by the user seems to be feeding on sunlight while awaiting an unknown future state in its life cycle.
Assessment: possibly the sea-bound state of an airborne organism.
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| Biobed | — | Creates a backup point for pioneers in case of covered work-related accident. |
