The stones of the Coalsack
01 Nov 2020Hyperion_NZ
It took several days and hundreds of light years travel but I think this line of enquiry is exhausted.The Coalsack is full of weird stuff.
A deserted base on Musca Dark Region PJ-P b6-1 where it seems the first Thargoid contact was made. There are also barnacles in the nebula itself on a pair of co-orbiting moons of the brightest star in there.
I followed a trail of clues to the Chukchan where the ghost ship, Adamastor turned up a few days ago. The logs indicate the path it took before picking up, what I assume was a Thargoid Probe.
I ended up at the Synuefe listening post mentioned in the broken log , trying to figure out how the megaship ended up an empty wreck. The coded message is beyond my skills. Maybe it means nothing but there are bits in the middle that look similar to the logs, but that may be a coincidence given that it's meant to be in code.
Scrambling round the route it took before it became a ghost ship, I discovered the A class star mentioned in the log.
It seems the trail ends there, at HIP 69200 1B, where Prof Carver escaped the Adamastor but crashed the sidewinder she escaped in.
I have no idea why it's still smoking after hundreds of years.
I still wonder what the encrypted message says, but I doubt it will solve the mystery. The problems began after they picked up the artifact.
It was a fascinating puzzle but it asks as many questions as it solves.