Purple Tablet

Description: Ancient tablet with a purple symbol.

Overview

The Purple Tablet is usually the first Alien Tablet to be found and is frequently used in various locations throughout the game. There are currently eight working tablets found in total.

Locations

Usage

The Purple Tablet is essential for progressing through several major story locations:

Quarantine Enforcement Platform (QEP): Requires two tablets to unlock either the upper entrance of the anti-gravity elevator or the control room. The two tablets needed for these doors can be found onsite: three on Mountain Island, two in the Mountain Island's Caves, one below the underwater Alien Arch Platform near the QEP, and one inside the facility in the room before the deactivation terminal.
Sanctuary Caches: Can be used optionally to access the three Sanctuary Caches (1 tablet per cache).
Disease Research Facility: Used to unlock certain doors (1 tablet).
Alien Thermal Plant: Used to unlock certain doors (2 tablets).

In total, 3 tablets are required to beat the game if swimming through the QEP moonpool entrance skips two forcefields.

Structure Requirements

Structure	Tablets Required
Quarantine Enforcement Platform	2
Disease Research Facility	1
Alien Thermal Plant	2
Sanctuary Cache	1 each (Total 3)

Crafting

After scanning the broken Purple Tablet Fragment located in front of the Quarantine Enforcement Platform's land entrance, players can craft Purple Tablets at the Fabricator.

Recipe

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Ingredients:

1 Ion Cube
2 Diamonds

Alternatively, players can scan an intact Purple Tablet either before picking it up or by discarding it.

Data Bank Entry

This carbon-based device is lighter than it looks and features a symbol which resembles a 'U', lit up in purple. Despite the onboard power still functioning, algae growth on the exterior indicates it was abandoned hundreds, perhaps thousands of years ago. While the technology is far beyond Federation levels, and there is no obvious way to interface with it, it should nonetheless be possible to fabricate a precise physical copy of the device, if necessary.