Tadpole Pens

 | Property | Details |-| --- | --- |-| **Location** | Graveyard, 675m E of Lifepod |-| **Depth** | 150m |+| :--- | :--- |+| **Type** | Alterra Seabase / Point of Interest |+| **Location** | Graveyard Biome | | **Coordinates** | -271618, 435346 |+| **Depth** | 150m |+| **Access Requirement** | Heat Tolerance adaptation |  -The **Tadpole Pens** is an Alterra seabase located in the Graveyard. It is inaccessible without the Heat Tolerance adaptation. The facility features a large east section and smaller north and south sections.+![Tadpole Pens Front](Tadfront.png)  -The front entrance to the east section leads to a main room and a flooded moonpool room. A locked door requires an access key carried by Zip (found in the Hot Caves). This door leads to an office, storage rooms, and an upper NoA Terminal room.+The **Tadpole Pens** is an [[Alterra]] seabase located in the [[Graveyard]]. It is inaccessible without the [[Heat Tolerance]] adaptation. The facility features a large east section and smaller north and south sections.  -## Scannable Items & Fragments+The front entrance to the east section leads to a main room and a flooded moonpool room. There is also a locked door that requires an access key carried by Zip (see [[Hot caves|Hot Caves]]). This locked door leads to an office and storage rooms, with an upper level containing a plot-relevant NoA Terminal room.  -Scans and fragments found throughout the Tadpole Pens include:+### Exterior Scans+The outside of the structure provides scans for:+*   [[Power Transmitter]]+*   [[Tadpole]]+*   [[Hydroelectric Turbine]]+*   [[Spotlight]]  -*   **East Section (Main Room):** Dining Table, Dining Chair, Stool, Trashcan, S Shelf, Tadpole, Half Round Room data card.-*   **Flooded Moonpool:** Trashcan, Lab Chair, Wall Light Small, Scout Ray Chassis, Tadpole, Power Cell Terminal, Moonpool data card.-*   **South Section:** Power Cell Terminal, Trashcan, Processor, Small Crate, Wall Panel, Wall Unit Large, Wall Unit Small, Wall Vent, Wall Vent Large. Contains RUBY: Tadpole ops guide.-*   **North Section:** Lab Chair, Trashcan, S Shelf, Moonpool data card. Contains NAHEMA: We must voluntarily die.-*   **Locked Room:** Power Storage, Lab Chair, Trashcan, S Shelf, Dining Chair, Dining Table, Repair Tool, Scout Ray Poster.-*   **Locked Room Closet:** Small Axum Jar, Axum Jar, Tall Axum Jar, Coral Jar, Small Coral Jar.-*   **Exterior:** Power Transmitter, Tadpole, Hydroelectric Turbine, Spotlight.+### South Section+The south section contains scans for:+*   [[Power Cell Terminal]]+*   [[Trashcan]]+*   [[Processor]]  -## NoA Terminal+It also contains a data card unlocking blueprints for:+*   [[Small Crate]]+*   [[Wall Panel]]+*   [[Wall Unit Large]]+*   [[Wall Unit Small]]+*   [[Wall Vent]]+*   [[Wall Vent Large]]  -The NoA terminal at the Tadpole Pens can be booted up. To read its dialogue, see NoA/Tadpole Pens.+Additionally, this section holds the databank entry **RUBY: Tadpole ops guide**.  +### North Section+The north section contains the databank entry **NAHEMA: We must voluntarily die** and a [[Moonpool]] data card. Scans available here include:+*   [[Lab Chair]]+*   [[Trashcan]]+*   [[S Shelf]]+ +### East Section (Main Room)+The main room in the east section contains scans for:+*   [[Dining Table]]+*   [[Dining Chair]]+*   [[Stool]]+*   Trashcan+*   S Shelf+*   Tadpole+ +It also houses a data card for the [[Half Round Room]] and the **Survivor - Waypoint 2** Databank entry, which explains that the access key to the locked door is on Zip's blackbox at the bottom of the hot caves.+ +### Flooded Moonpool+The flooded moonpool area contains scans for:+*   Trashcan+*   Lab Chair+*   [[Wall Light Small]]+*   [[Scout Ray Chassis]]+*   Tadpole+*   [[Power Cell Terminal]]+*   Moonpool data card+ +### Locked Room+The locked room (requiring Zip's key) contains scans for:+*   [[Power Storage]]+*   Lab Chair+*   Trashcan+*   S Shelf+*   Dining Chair+*   Dining Table+*   [[Repair Tool]]+*   [[Scout Ray Poster]]+ +A small closet within this room contains scans for various jars:+*   [[Small Axum Jar]]+*   [[Axum Jar]]+*   [[Tall Axum Jar]]+*   [[Coral Jar]]+*   [[Small Coral Jar]]+ +### NoA Terminal+The upper [[NoA Terminal]] room is not flooded but contains no scans. The terminal can be booted up. To read its dialogue, see [[NoA/Tadpole Pens]].+ +## Blueprints & Fragments+The following blueprints can be acquired at the Tadpole Pens:+*   [[Dining Chair]]+*   [[Dining Table]]+*   [[Half Round Room]]+*   [[Hydroelectric Turbine]]+*   [[Spotlight]]+*   [[Power Cell Terminal]]+*   [[Processor]]+*   [[Small Crate]]+*   [[Wall Panel]]+*   [[Wall Unit Large]]+*   [[Wall Unit Small]]+*   [[Wall Vent]]+*   [[Wall Vent Large]]+*   [[Lab Chair]]+*   [[S Shelf]]+*   [[Power Storage]]+*   [[Small Axum Jar]]+*   [[Axum Jar]]+*   [[Tall Axum Jar]]+*   [[Coral Jar]]+*   [[Small Coral Jar]]+*   [[Moonpool]]+*   [[Power Transmitter]]+*   [[Scout Ray Chassis]]+*   [[Stool]]+*   [[Tadpole]]+*   [[Trashcan]]+ +## Location+The Tadpole Pens is located on the eastern edge of the [[Graveyard]] at a depth of 150m.+  ## Databank Entries   ### Tadpole Pens > A fabrication and maintenance site for Tadpole submersibles. There is a functioning NoA node in the control room. > > - Site suggests Tadpoles were often deployed eastward > - Material may have been returned by Tadpole expeditions > - NoA node may contain information on past survival failures and future threats > - Access to the control room is secured by a passcode > > Access codes were stored in the PDAs and blackboxes of high-ranking colonists.   ### Survivors - Waypoint 2 > Ganzo here. Nine survivors of Habitat with me. Tuba went back to Habitat and...a marrowbreach took Ruby. I don't know if she'll be reprinted. I've heard her die so many times. But this time...she's got to be out there somewhere. She's got to. > > The Tadpole Pens control room is locked and all the Tadpoles are gone. Sophie and Nahema took the last two. We're stuck. > > We've voted, eight to one. We're going to go down into the hot caves. We all feel a pull there. We know it's a Masefield hallucination—yes, Twinkle, we *know*—but hey, Anita said, if we ask the world for help, maybe it'll answer. > > And it's not all crazy. There's a biobed at the base camp. And Zip...Zip died at the bottom of that cave. She had a kurultai access key that could get us through this lock. > > If you find this, we headed due southwest to the hot caves. Bearing [muttered] Hang on, Ruby.   ### NAHEMA: We must voluntarily die+![Cicada Logo](Cicada Logo.png) > Media chipped or shattered. Recovering intact sectors... > > If we are not the last of humanity, then we have no reason to suffer on a hostile world. Our survival is not the last hope of the human species. > > If we are the last of humanity, then we do not deserve to survive. If the last and best we can offer the universe is a gaggle of indentured servants ruled by a talking spreadsheet? Better to end. We have never been a worthy steward of any world. We failed Earth, so we fled to the stars. Now, like the Architects before us, we reap the whirlwind. > > We had to invent the lie of 'Masefield syndrome' in order to pathologize what our bodies already know is true - we do not belong on this world. We are here, and we deserve happiness, but the right way to seek happiness is to explore the wonders of Proteus and then find a place to donate our nutri& > > [metadata lost]   ## Gallery-  ![North Section Interior](Tadpolepensruins2inside.png) ![South Section Interior](Tadpolepensruins1inside.png) ![Upper Chamber](Tadpolepensroom4.png) ![Locked Room](Tadpolepensroom3.png) ![Flooded Moonpool](Tadpolepensroom2.png) ![Main Room](Tadpolepensroom1.png) ![Here's your sign.](Tadpolepenssign.png) ![North Section](Tadnorth.png) ![From the Dangerous Side](Tadrear.png) ![From the Safe Side](Tadfront.png) ![South Section](Tadsouth.png)