Old Habitat

-| Feature | Details |-|---|---|+| Property | Details |+| :--- | :--- | | **Type** | Pioneer Seabase / Point of Interest |-| **Location** | Plateaus |-| **Coordinates** | -337693, 394187 |+| **Location** | Plateaus (Trench edge, bordering Necrolei Hills) | | **Depth** | 60m |-| **Relative Position** | 400m North of Lifepod |+| **Coordinates** | -337693, 394187 |+| **Distance** | ~400m North of Lifepod |   ![Overhead View](Oldhabitatoverhead.png)  -**Old Habitat** is a [[Pioneer Seabases|pioneer seabase]] located in the [[Plateaus]]. It consists of a north complex and a south complex, connected by a corridor. The entrance is on the far north side, leading to Wu's room. The cave below the Old Habitat leads to [[Colonist Bunker (Sophi's Retreat)|Colonist Bunker (Sophie's Retreat)]].+The **Old Habitat** is a ruined Pioneer Seabase located in a trench on the edge of the [[Plateaus]], bordering the [[Necrolei Hills]]. Once home to 25 Pioneers, the base was abandoned following a violent riot instigated by Chap Sovann and Zygimantis "Mantis" Tarvydas.  -The outside of Old Habitat contains numerous [[Acid Raion|acid Raions]], a large supply crate containing 1 [[Copper]] and 3 [[Titanium]], a [[Hydroelectric Turbine]] and [[Tadpole]] fragments, and the Nahema - "Day One" Databank Entry. On a rocky outcropping to the south, the player can find a [[Storage Cache]] fragment.+Prior to the incident, tensions were high; Anita Gottschall had already defected to form the [[Jubilee]] faction, moving several pioneers back to [[Camp One]]. During the riot, explosives destroyed all on-site [[Biobed]]s, killing several inhabitants including the perpetrators. Survivors fled to the [[Tadpole Pens]] to regroup.  -## North Complex+## Exterior  -*   **Wu's Room**: Contains Wu's Blackbox, a [[Sonic Resonator]] fragment, scans for [[Lab Chair]], [[Dining Table]], [[Bloom Canker]] and a Bloom Specimen, and Databank Entries *Wu - "I've Cracked it"* and *Bloom Infestation Scanner Filter*. A doorway leads south to Mogami's room.-*   **Mogami's Room**: Contains Mogami's Blackbox, Think Two's Blackbox, scans for [[Processor]], [[Habitat Builder]], [[Stool]], [[Trashcan]], [[Wakemaker]], Dining Table and Sonic Resonator. The wall storages contain 3 [[Water]], 4 [[Fibrous Pulp]], [[Grease]], [[Copper Wire]], 3 [[Basic First Aid Kit|Basic First Aid Kits]] and a [[Survival Multitool|Multitool]]. A doorway leads north to Mantis's room. A ladder leads up to Upper Office. To the Southwest is the corridor leading to the South Complex.-*   **Mantis's Room**: Contains Mantis's Blackbox, Chap's Blackbox, the [[Safety First Poster]], scans for [[Biobed]], Lab Chair and Dining Table, and the *Proteus Medical Risks* Databank entry.-*   **Upper Office**: Contains scans for [[Battery Terminal]], Dining Chair, Dining Table, Trashcan and Processor. A doorway leads south to Quaker's room.-*   **Quaker's Room**: Contains Quaker's Blackbox. There is an air pocket at the roof. Oxygen can be restored here.-*   **Corridor**: The Corridor between the north and south complexes contains a bubbling oxygen tank. Oxygen can be restored here. It connects Mogami's room to the Bioreactor Room.+The structure appears intact from a distance but suffers significant damage upon inspection. Several rooms in the north complex have detached, and a large hole exists in the bottom of one compartment. Signs of abandonment include sand accumulation, [[Macaron Sponge]] growth on roofs, and [[Jelly Lei]]s growing from undersides.  -## South Complex+The surrounding trench floor hosts [[Water Slug]]s, [[Acid Raion]]s, and [[Pent]].+*   **South:** Leads to a small worksite containing fragments for the [[Hydroelectric Turbine]] and [[Storage Cache]].+*   **North:** Leads to a [[Tadpole]] fragment. Further north contains a note warning of [[Proteavirus#Masefield_Syndrome|Masefield Syndrome]], stating "there is no jubilee."  -*   **Bioreactor Room**: Contains scans for [[Bioreactor]], Battery Terminal and Stool. A supply crate contains 1 [[Lead]]. A ladder leads up to the Storage Room.-*   **Storage Room**: Contains scans for [[Spotlight]], [[Small Coral Jar]] and Wakemaker, and the *Ganzo - "Survivors fled east"* Databank entry. A hole in the roof leads to the Scanner Station room.-*   **Scanner Station Room**: Is not flooded and contains scans for [[Scanner Station]], Lab Chair, Dining Table, [[Wall Rack]], and [[Wall Light Small]], and the *Cicada Debris Scanner Filter*. A Big Red Button opens a shortcut to outside. A doorway leads south to the NoA Terminal room.-*   **NoA Terminal Room**: Is not flooded and contains scans for [[Room]], [[Ladder]] and Lab Chair, the *Sophie - "Riot in Progress"* Database entry, and the [[NoA Terminal]].+## Interior  +### North Complex+ +#### First Floor+Access is via a rear hatch leading into **Dr. Wu's Lab**. This room contains:+*   Scans: [[Dining Table]], [[Lab Chair]], [[Sonic Resonator]].+*   Items: Note from Dr. Wu, ''Dr. Wu - "I've cracked it"'' [[Databank]] entry, Dr. Wu's [[blackboxes|blackbox]].+*   Research: Display cases for [[Bloom Canker]] scans.+ +The adjacent **Common Area** features:+*   **Right Side:** Scannable [[Processor]], [[Habitat Builder]], two [[Wall Locker]]s (containing [[Fibrous Pulp]], [[Isotonic Water]], and [[Water]]).+*   **Left Side:** Scans for [[Stool]] and [[Wall Light Small]]. Wall Locker contains two [[Basic First Aid Kit]]s and an [[Enhanced First Aid Kit]].+*   **Central Pillar:** Scans for Stool and [[Trashcan]]. Blackbox of [[E. "Thing Two" Terbish]].+*   **Back Right:** Blackbox of [[Mogami Kinu]], [[Wakemaker]] fragment, Wall Locker with [[Survival Multitool]], [[Copper Wire]], and [[Grease]].+ +The **Biobed Room** (left of Mogami's blackbox) shows explosion damage with a hole in the floor.+*   **Items:** Mantis's blackbox (lower right), Chap's blackbox (seafloor below hole).+*   **Scans:** [[Biobed]], Lab Chair, Dining Table, [[Safety First Poster]].+*   **Lore:** Biobed contains ''Protean Medical Risks'' entry.+ +#### Second Floor+Accessible via a ceiling hole or ladder (illuminated by Pent). This area continues the common room layout.+*   **New Scans:** [[Battery Terminal]], [[Dining Chair]].+*   **Sleeping Quarters:** One blocked by a bunk bed. The other contains [[Lucretia "Quaker" Kapoor]]'s blackbox and the [[LeviathanAwakens Poster]]. This room is partially flooded, allowing oxygen replenishment.+ +### South Complex+ +#### First Floor+Accessible via the north complex corridor. Contains an old oxygen tank.+*   **Power Room:** Dedicated to base power. Features a [[Battery Terminal]], destroyed [[Bioreactor]], scans for [[Wall Light Small]], and a chest with [[Lead]].+*   **Access:** Ladder leads to the second floor.+ +#### Second Floor+A storage room with shelving units.+*   **Items:** [[Small Coral Jar]], fragments for [[Spotlight]] and [[Wakemaker]].+*   **Fixtures:** Two broken [[Fabricator]]s, note from Dr. Wu.+*   **Lore:** Table holds ''Ganzo - "Survivors fled east"'' entry.+ +#### Third Floor+Unflooded area accessed via a hole above the second-floor ladder.+*   **Room 1:** Scans for Dining Table, Lab Chair, [[Scanner Station]], [[Wall Rack]]. Contains Recipe Data Card for [[Cicada]] Debris filter upgrade. A button unlocks the adjacent hatch.+*   **Hatch Area:** Looking down reveals the ''Nahema - "Day one"'' entry.+*   **NoA Room:** Houses the resident [[NoA]] unit. Contains a Lab Chair, Recipe Data Card for [[Room]], and the ''Sophie - "Riot in progress"'' entry.+  ## NoA Terminal  -The [[NoA]] terminal at the Old Habitat can be booted up. To read its dialogue, see [[NoA/Old Habitat]].+The [[NoA]] terminal in the Old Habitat can be booted up to access additional dialogue and data logs.   ## Blueprints and Fragments  -The following blueprints and fragments can be found within the Old Habitat:+The following items can be scanned or found as fragments within the Old Habitat:   *   [[Battery Terminal]] *   [[Biobed]] *   [[Bioreactor]] *   [[Dining Chair]] *   [[Dining Table]] *   [[Habitat Builder]] *   [[Lab Chair]] *   [[Processor]] *   [[Room]] *   [[Scanner Station]] *   [[Small Coral Jar]] *   [[Sonic Resonator]] *   [[Spotlight]] *   [[Stool]] *   [[Storage Cache]] *   [[Trashcan]] *   [[Wakemaker]] *   [[Wall Rack]]  -## Location- -![Map Location](wiki-images/c3/c3133c645ddb24f453800dfe384fbf50.png)- -Located in the [[Plateaus]] at Depth 60m.-  ## Databank Entries   ### Old Habitat > A developed habitat with internal growbeds and berths for more than twenty colonists.+> *   Hull ruptured by an explosion+> *   Seacocks opened to flood the habitat, perhaps as emergency fire control+> *   Multiple blackboxes on site. A search may indicate where survivors evacuated+> *   On-site NoA node could be reactivated for data retrieval+> *   One habitat module is set up as a hot lab to study viral biology >-> - Hull ruptured by an explosion-> - Seacocks opened to flood the habitat, perhaps as emergency fire control-> - Multiple blackboxes on site. A search may indicate where survivors evacuated-> - On-site NoA node could be reactivated for data retrieval-> - One habitat module is set up as a hot lab to study viral biology-> > The habitat contains salvage, including a powerful scanner station.   ### Proteus Medical Risks-> So everyone understands what we're dealing with.+> **So everyone understands what we're dealing with.** > > **NOT A BIG PROBLEM:**+> *   Kharaa. Despite early false alarms about viral DNA, this planet is uninfected or immune.+> *   Xenon. Trace xenon may contaminate tank air. Causes narcosis, sedation, death.+> *   B12 deficiency. Cobalamin never evolved here. Deficiency causes beefy tongue, ataxia, death. Not a problem until we live long enough for it to matter.+> *   Pervasive viremia. Seawater contains enormous concentrations of large RNA virus, named *Proteavirus*. Should not be able to replicate in human cells. Monitor. >-> - Kharaa. Despite early false alarms about viral DNA, this planet is uninfected or immune.-> - Xenon. Trace xenon may contaminate tank air. Causes narcosis, sedation, death.-> - B12 deficiency. Cobalamin never evolved here. Deficiency causes beefy tongue, ataxia, death. Not a problem until we live long enough for it to matter.-> - Pervasive viremia. Seawater contains enormous concentrations of large RNA virus, named *Proteavirus*. Should not be able to replicate in human cells. Monitor.-> > **BIG PROBLEMS:**+> *   GI issues. Humans can't digest Protean tissue; causes intestinal crystals and gout. Anita believes that angel combs will donate digestive enzymes, but this may cause Masefield (see below)+> *   Heavy metal poisoning. The biosphere is full of lead, mercury, arsenic, cadmium, thallium, worse. Progressive nerve and organ failure within 3 months. No treatment. We have to find a fix.+> *   Masefield syndrome. Progressive delusional disorder, possibly associated with adaptations sourced from angel combs. Causes hallucinations and an urge to swim towards the big tree. No cure except a hard reset. >-> - GI issues. Humans can't digest Protean tissue; causes intestinal crystals and gout. Anita believes that angel combs will donate digestive enzymes, but this may cause Masefield (see below)-> - Heavy metal poisoning. The biosphere is full of lead, mercury, arsenic, cadmium, thallium, worse. Progressive nerve and organ failure within 3 months. No treatment. We have to find a fix.-> - Masefield syndrome. Progressive delusional disorder, possibly associated with adaptations sourced from angel combs. Causes hallucinations and an urge to swim towards the big tree. No cure except a hard reset.-> > For everything else: apply a medical satchel and rest. > > *[metadata author=Sophie "Butcher" Boucher]*   ### Ganzo - "Survivors fled east" > Habitat is gone. The biobeds blew up and NoA flooded everything. I got to my air just in time. We tried to drag people clear but...they're gone. I don't think they're gonna reprint. > > I'm taking survivors to the Tadpole Pens. Swim down the east tunnel past Sophie's office, to the baby jellies. I'll do a head count at the worksite there. > > -Ganzo   ### Nahema - "Day one" > If one of my species finds this message: you may be the very last human being in the universe. You get to write the last chapter of our story. So I ask you to do the most human thing you can. > > Forget your debt. Forget NoA, forget Alterra, forget Zezura and the life you imagined. It's all gone now. You're going to die here, and that's all right. > > Pick the most interesting thing you can see and explore.   ### Nahema - "Frozen tyrant" > It's not a real mind. Not like you have. It can learn facts, but it can't change how it thinks. And why would it? > > Let me quote the manual. "NoA's cephalopod-inspired architecture uses a minimal central executive to govern limb nodes at remote worksites...as a frozen Al, NoA is unable to revise its architecture at runtime...reliably controllable by less intelligent systems such as human operators, except under extreme situations." An insult to octopodes. > > It won't let you die. Not its precious workforce. If you become uncontrollable, it'll wipe your memories and start over. No anger. No resentment. A nice clean you. > > Change? Why would it want to change? The damn thing is in heaven. > > *[metadata author="Nahema Nakota"]*   ### Sophie - "Riot in progress" > Kurultai record! Very quick - damn it - there is a riot in Habitat! Chap and Mantis have explosives- > > [sound of explosion] > > Fire. God. We are on fire-I have to go. Ganzo! GANZO! Signal everyone outside to rally at the Tadpole Pens!   ### Sophie - "URGENT: Triage policy update" > Nobody wants this. I hate it more than I can say. But it's time. > > As colony surgeon, I have determined that we can no longer take care of the sick. We don't have the calories to spare. > > I will not force anyone to reprint. But I ask that, once you are too sick to work, you volunteer for recycling into a new body. It won't cure the permanent damage. But it will clean you up for a while. > > At least this is fair. Until we know how to adapt the metals without going Masefield, we're all going to get sick. > > I will lead the way myself. > > Let the record show that the NoA did not advise me in this decision. > > *[metadata author = Sophie "Butcher" Boucher]*   ### Dr. Wu - "I've cracked it" > Dr. Wu's log. Day 755. I think I've cracked it. Sophie and Anita are BOTH right. The Proteavirus causes Masefield syndrome...but only one *kind* of Proteavirus. The bloom strain. Maybe it's tainting Anita's angel comb adaptations. > > I've tuned the sonic resonators to destroy the viral crystals grown by the bloom strain. We should test it on the angel combs out west, with those promising heat shock proteins. And if I'm wrong...hey. I'm just a dietician. NoA should've woken up a virologist.   ## Gallery  -![Overhead View](Oldhabitatoverhead.png) ![Welcome Home](Oldhabitatsign.png) ![Mogami Room](Oldhabitatmogamiroom.png) ![Quaker Room](Oldhabitatquakerroom.png) ![Upper Office](Oldhabitatofficeroom.png) ![Mantis Room](Oldhabitatmantisroom.png) ![Wu Room](Oldhabitatwuroom.png) ![Corridor with Oxygen Bubbles](Oldhabitatcorridorbetween.png) ![Bioreactor Room](Oldhabitatbiorectorroom.png) ![Storage Room](Oldhabitatstorage.png) ![NoA Terminal](Oldhabitatnoaroom.png) ![Scanner Station Room](Oldhabitatscannerstationroom.png)