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Starbound Flotilla     AMALGAM MINING TRAM SYSTEM

    Deep underground, a lovely little magnetic rail system conveys cargo back and forth between the settlement and the mining facility. This smooth ride is well-lit and well-furnished, showing a sort of space-age frontiersmanship. No tremendous industrial cargo trains coming down the rails today, this one's a tram full of people. It stops in the middle of what appears to be a Hylotl underground zen garden. Those who visited Amalam's moon know that Hylotl can garden out in the middle of lunar vacuum, so it should come as no surprise that there's a lovely tree and some nice well-kept grass, a nice place to sit, some lanterns... Despite being abandoned for upwards of dozens of years.


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    Embedded in the wall is a Door. This three-panel heavy stone threshold doesn't have anything behind it that it could lead to, and yet is sealed tight with some form of complicated light puzzle. Sarah Parsle has been assigned by the Flotilla to crack it, and by now she probably can have managed it. It's a hell of a puzzle, a modular mess that bends the brain like a multidimensional rubik's cube, but if anyone's the puzzlegirl, it's her.

    Time to disembark from the tram and prep for entry.
Alexis Maaka     Click. Click. Click. Maaka loads shell after shell into a combat shotgun before she racks the handguard with a satisfying ka-chunk. She's raring and ready to go once the tram stops and everyone gets off. The cyborg goes in front, turning on a tactical light to guide the way through as she begins to make her way towards the big mysterious door. "Well."

    She examines it, her shotgun lowering as she frowns behind her visor. "I don't have any shells that can bust through this. Anybody else got ideas?" She's content to let Sarah do her thing when it's apparent she's Puzzlegirl, so she just rests her 12 gauge over her shoulder.
Kotone Yamakawa Kotone Yamakawa is here suited up in the optic cameo suit that she's become very known for using, she's got a SMG slung across her back and she's also carrying several othe things even a compliment of alien tech grenades from her assoiates at XCOM, she seems pretty well armed and she's even got seveal drones at the ready too.

"I'm thinking mining tools to be honest, or I half bet Biteblade could eat the door if we put some good hot sauce on it."
Nozomi Houken     It continues to be a slightly incongruous sight when the TIGER unit belonging to Nozomi Houken sits on the tram's seats as if he were a person.

    Taiga continues to not care in the least.

    The two of them disembark from the tram smoothly when it comes to a stop, and for the time being Nozomi stands back a bit to regard the door with a curious look. "...it's always so weird, seeing something really old that still works so well," she mumbles to no one in particular, leaning her weight slightly on her staff.
Corona Arclite     Corona is the one that initially found the door, so of course she's going to be here to explore even if solving the lock went to someone else to handle. That's okay, she was busy with working on the colony's industrial facilities.

    "Reckon that's one of the smoothest rides Ah've been on in a long time," the foxgirl remarks about the magna-tram as she hops off the cart. Then nudges Alexis in the side jovially. "Especially after that -last- ride we went on, am Ah rawht?" After toppling towers, crashing castles and smash landing ships.

    "Now now, let's have faith in the gal's efforts." Then pats the mining hammer slung from her belt, and winks at Kotone. "Ah did bring some backup plans, just t'be on the safe side, though." Which probably means she's got some explosives packed away too. Not to mention she's wearing her hat with the miner's headlamp on it, steampunk goggles already up over her eyes.
Staren     Staren is armored up, as usual -- He doesn't know /what/ will be behind that door. Environmental hazards, monsters... So it just makes sense to keep his armor on while exploring. However, as a concession to close quarters combat, instead of the usual energy rifle on his back, there's a high-tech submachinegun.

    He steps out to observe the de-puzzling, nodding to Nozomi. "That's why it'd be great if there's more of this tech inside we can take and analyze." He waits expectantly for Sarah to open the door.
Nozomi Houken     At mention of the last ride they went on, Nozomi sort of just turns her head and staaaaaaares at Corona. Does she look a little pale all of a sudden?
Alexis Maaka     "I hear ya." Maaka nudges Corona back as she slings her shotgun, making time for camraderie despite being on the clock. "Poor Kaz wouldn't stop shaking after that job. You know how it is." Shrug. Kotone's remark about hot sauce actually gives her reason to burst out laughing, because she can actually picture Biteblade trying to gnaw through hot sauce coated stone.
Rory White     "Thermite! Thermite can handle any job." Rory White exclaims from her spot next to Kotone. She's here in her Flexbot, hands folded in front of her. "But I wonder what the answer to any puzzle THIS complicated could be?"
Kotone Yamakawa Kotone Yamakawa says "That is after all our final backup plan if all else fails. Oh you did Corona? We should be good no matter what happens then."

Kotone looks at Staren for a long moment then ponders something.

"Treat anything you find in there like something you scooped up off Rory's earth. We have no idea what's going on in there."

She glances to Flex mode Rory. She looks at Rory for a moment with an odd look on her face.

"Let's hope we don't have to use /something/ like that. If I recall right that stuff makes water /burn/
Sarah Parsle This time you don't have giant deposits of Erchius to explain it though. Not that Sarah was there for that.

In this case, the Afterusian ecto-youth has been ramming simulations and going back and forth to the Door in order to make sure on her assessments. It's been annoying, pointless, grindy trial and error for the last week or two, only broken by a hilarious battle with a spaceship from the Ring of Thorns.

But now she's pretty sure she's got this thing beat. The thing about puzzles and codes is that they always have a solution. The key to making them secure is making them take too long to figure out. Sarah has a lot of patience and a mind that is very good at locating patterns and extrapolating, testing things rapidly.

This works out as she pops off the tram, in her environmental suit from Staren. Looks like she's decided to format the externals as a nice blouse and slacks today. It would almost make her look professional if she wasn't a little messy about it. She walks up to the Door with her tablet, weaving around Alexis and propping up her tablet next to the door. She looks down to the simulation, and then to the Door and its array of silly interaction points.

"Okay guys, guns ready. As soon as this thing opens, I'm getting out of the way." She says.

Without further indication, she pokes the tablet. "So yeah, this thing has a stupid amount of symbolism on it. The data I got back on from your space codexes were hilarious reads while I was bashing my head against this. It's complicated as hell, and I figure it would take me a couple years to crack this code even with referring back to the whole mythological stuff..."

There's a pause, as she reaches up to the sun-like orb. "... Or I could just hit it with Occam's Razor and call it good." She pushes it in with a click... And then rotates it clockwise, the light rays splaying out from it lighting up in a circle. Once it makes a full rotation, she pulls her hand back, and the button...

Pushes outwards, opening up to reveal a stoneworked handle that would probably look more approrpiate on an airlock. "... And I can just figure out that all that crap was a giant distraction and take advantage of the fact that the thing is scan-resistant to look for the actual door latch." Without fanfare, she reaches up and pulls the latch, turning it with a loud KER-CHUNK.

"Fun time." She grabs her tablet and leaps out of the way, letting the others take point for the breaching.
Starbound Flotilla     The door's panels split, in three parts, as the light lines up and expands out. The three panels of the door split apart as if they were shattering the orb. The sun-like symbol splits into multiple parts as the mechanism shifts. The only segment is a large half-symbol, like a rising sun...

    The unfolding door doesn't open up into an underground area. No, rather, it seems to open up into outer space. At least, the casual viewer can see starlight through it. Tremendous pillars of what looks like solid, meteor-brown brick, interspersed with shining blue light, are visible between brilliant celestial formations. Lines of cyan and Erchius-purple energy rush over the surface of heavy stone formations underground. But nothing rushes out of the gateway, intent on brutalizing the intruders. Instead, it seems the group is invited into a larger interior area, designed like the exterior of a temple, but set out against a starry night sky. There's still plenty of atmosphere, but past the door seems to be an isolated asteroid out in a mysterious space,

    There's a region of the "temple"-space ahead, imposing in structure and obviously visually intended to evoke a challenge. But the pillars and their light off to the side -- as well as some signs of past presence here, a few discarded, spent powercells -- indicate there may be something worth investigating at a side path that heads perpendicular to the intended walkway.
Alexis Maaka     Shotgun going back to her hands, Maaka goes back to work once Sarah advises combaty types take point. She's glad to do just that, turning her light on as she begins to go through the doorway. "Check your corners, heads on a swivel." She says cooly, motioning for the others to follow her as she makes her way through the...portal?! "Huh." She gets the awe and shock out of the way as she finds herself into some sort of space temple thing, noting the erchius energy around the group as she sweeps the area, picking up some power cells before heading down the side path. "I'll take this route, see if anything's worth taking."
Kotone Yamakawa Kotone Yamakawa is on her guard given her experiances with things from this world so far. She seems ready and sends the drones ahead of her as she brings up her guns, she's intening to map things out as she goes.
Corona Arclite     Likewise Corona has her Forge Sweeper out before the suggestion to be ready is even finished. Fortunately, for all the fanciness of the ancient doorway nothing comes rushing out to 'greet' them, so there's time to step inside and admire the temple architect. "... Definately ain't what Ah was expectin'. Looks ancient an' fancy all at the same ti--hello what's this?" She stoops down by the discarded cells, clicking open her analyzer. "They's empty. But that means folks been in here before." She tucks the device back into her belt as she stands up and nods to Alexis. "Let's give it a looksee." Of course she'd be the one curious in the proverbial bread crumb trail of potential tech.
Nozomi Houken     "...oh..." Nozomi goes quiet in a way entirely different from her usual, shy silence - the look on her face says all it needs to about the wonder. "It's... it's beautiful." Completely forgetting about the potential danger, she takes a step or two forward purely to appreciate the place more. Fortunately, she has Taiga to do all the 'being cautious'. He takes a few ambling steps forward so as to enter before her, looking around with both eyes and sensors. "Hm. I believe we will avoid the direction which promises difficulty in favor of this side path." Only now does Nozomi blink and realize there's a choice to make. But she agrees with Taiga's decision, nodding slightly. "Yeah."
Staren     Staren watches Sarah open the door with interest. "Huh. So you bypassed the lock? I'd have thought they'd have made the internal parts harder to get to..." Still, as the door starts opening, Staren raises his arm, ready... But, instead of monsters, there's a... temple-slash-planetarium? Staren walks in, once it's clear there's no immediate attack.

    Only as Staren's about to scan the effect does it hit him. "...Wait, do you mean the puzzle was just a /distraction/, and the door was basically unlocked the whole time??" He holds a hand to his helmet.

    Scans! Staren figures they're inside a cavern with some weird visual effect on it, so he starts prodding the 'sky' with laser and ultrasound rangefinding. However, on the off-chance that something a little weirder is going on, he /also/ scans the doorway for magic and dimensional distortions.
Sarah Parsle Sarah moves in behind the others, looking around at the environment with a frown. "Now this is a hell of a thing. How does this even fit in here?" She glances back at Staren."Is this more of that Erchius stuff doing this? Is this even still on Amalgam?" All salient questions, perhaps. You never know when Erchius is involved. Seeing him get to work, she shrugs. "Well, a door you can't find the handle for is basically locked anyway, isn't it?" She points out. "But yeah. The puzzle was obfuscation. Remember what I said earlier? It would make no sense for people to put a complex lock like that in if they wanted it to be accessible later."

She sighs, her glance falling on those power cells. "Oh, we'll be back on the main path in a minute." She says. "But I want to see what happened to the last idiots that came in here."
Starbound Flotilla     Some folks head off to one side. It looks like there were other people here, increasingly so. But a quick examination of the cells, unfortunately, indicates that they're old. REALLY old. Looks like several dozen years old, some ancient Hylotl model with the chemicals decayed badly. This area, it looks like, isn't meant to have anyone at all head down it, because there's not a lot that's interesting there. Not natively, anyway; a small camp is here. A nice little space -- a little tent, a cooking area, things like that, just set off to the side -- and the remains of nothing in particular. There's some journals, a small stack of servers, some etchings, a few bits of what look like scavenged holographic emitters, and some star charts... All in traditional Hylotl style, of course. And all heavily aged, but despite what one would guess is exposure to space or to atmosphere or all sorts of things like that, not decayed nearly as badly as you would think...
Rory White     "You're KIDDING me." Anyone would go that much trouble to setup such a hilariously strange security system? Rory's... caught between disappointment and awe. She really did want to see how this security system worked.

    Hylotl design. Huh. She's gonna have questions for Moonfin later.

    His people increasingly baffle her.

    But as the door hits ACTIVITY she readies her weapons systems. The hidden ones. She's not yet ready to appear hostile just because a door's opening.

    But when the door to nowhere opens to a TEMPLE, far far away... she freezes. A FLURRY of Mesh activity's the sign of her loading all possible PANIC programs. Preparing contingencies, sending off a backup and activity her distant monitor-fork... and booting up tacnet.

    "HOW does this door work?!"

    Instead of walking through directly, she hurls a Saucer out into the moonscape! ... So long as there actually IS air, the Ionic drive will let it slowly float up into the air. its other sensors work on ensuring there's nothing... FREAKY dangerous out there.
Starbound Flotilla     Staren's scan of the 'sky' finds that it goes on, and on, and on, and... Those are real stars. This does seem to be somewhere else, according to that warp. But none of the stars are in the right place; the constellations don't make any sense, and every star map and star chart says that this isn't a real position that one could occupy in the Starbound galaxy, or indeed in most in Gate range.
Alexis Maaka     Maaka makes a note to research those cells later, but for now is focused on sweeping the ancient campsite. "Last party through here must've been here decades ago." She muses, picking up some of the journals and flipping through them before she picks up a server, trying to figure out a way to access whatever files are on it.
Starbound Flotilla     Rory finds that the atmosphere does eventually thin out, but none of its construction makes sense. There's sure not enough gravity on what appears to be this tiny asteroid with a temple on it, drifting out between solar systems. It's just sort of there, affected by nothing particularly clear, thinning out around the edges.
Corona Arclite "That they left this much of their stuff behind don't bode well fer whatever happened to 'em," Corona notes, giving a hand wave at the campsite in general. "Too much of this woulda been important to explorers and such." That said, she takes out her analyzer and uses it to take pictures of the starcharts. Maybe one of the SAILs can decode their coordinates later. Then goes to flip through some of the journals as well. Alexis can deal with the servers, that's more her thing.
Nozomi Houken     Nozomi takes a few steps forward when they find the campsite, frowning faintly. "It's all... it's been here for a long time. Why would they just..." While the others look at journals, and while Taiga does some scanning, Nozomi moves forward to carefully and /slowly/ open the tent. She's aware something could easily jump out at her.
Sarah Parsle Sarah trundles along without complaint for once. At the moment, it looks like the others are doing the scanning and checking. she doesn't get involved with it at the moment, too many cooks in that kitchen. She waits to see what they get out of it, instead, looking up at space and pondering things. "This is a hell of a place."
Staren     When Sarah asks if they're still on Amalgam, Staren replies, "That's what I'm wondering." After a few moments making increasingly concerned 'Hmmmmmmmmm.' noises, he looks back to the others. "I'm pretty sure we're somewhere else, although I'm not sure /where/. I'm not picking up any multiversal radio ansibles in the immediate vicinity, and the stars don't match the galaxy we came from, or anything in this /sector/ of the void. We've either gone /really/ far, or this is some kind of pocket universe, or it's an illusion designed just right to fool /all/ of my sensors." Staren shrugs.

    Hey, campsite! Staren goes to check that out. He starts glancing through the journals, while calling Moonfin on the radio. "Hey, Moonfin? We found what appears to be a campsite on the other side of an... some kind of portal down here. Is there anything special I need to be aware of on this tech, or can we just pull storage for later analysis? Oh right, I guess I don't need to pull storage, can just put the whole thing in the matter manipulator..."
Kotone Yamakawa Kotone Yamakawa is now moving in she seems to be on very much edge here as it opens. The drones head in ahead, she looks baout wary ther's no attackers, no turrts, nothing. As she commands her drones to fan outwards. She also starts looking for what could be hideen traps she goes thermo hoping to pick up things better that way, active machinery might have a heat signature higher than the other materials here. Or even lower depending.

She notices the power cells and gets ready to move on head.

"I prefer to not having my head spin about like it's some horror movie, Alexis."

Kotone can take in th wonder but she's also wary as hell a history for helping the Templar and Dragons has lead he to be wary in situations like this. She's going to check out a side path if she can to see what she might find. She'll also attempt to hook up to ant acti tacnets out there.
Starbound Flotilla     The campsite's journals have been defaced, but with precision. There's also no signs of anything else being defaced; it's possible that many of the pages torn out of it were torn out by its creator. Much of the writing, based on skimming, is concerned with the temple itself. Some of it is personal. What little remains of it is troubling. Some of the early stuff seems quite pleasant. Very nice, you know, normal scholar-adventurer stuff. Of the Hylotl, this particular researcher seems more Moonfin-like, not being too harsh about other species, even when they're being a pretentious jerk.

    Much of that is defaced, like someone in a fit of rage might. The final entry describes, in no uncertain terms: Abject horror, an incredibly harsh reaction to something... SOMETHING the Florans did. What did the Florans do? The writer seems to lack the vocabulary to describe; they have yet to discover the name of something that the Florans apparently betrayed someone else to help.
Starbound Flotilla     The star charts seem to have been made of this area. Several other star charts are being used to compare with it; it looks like they've created star charts at more than one location in this faux-galaxy, and are trying to map it out. It's not clear if that's even possible, but the data is useful.
Alexis Maaka     "Tch." Maaka only reads enough of the journals to get the gist of what /is/ remaining, before she calmly shuts the book and stuffs it in her pack. Sarah might be able to find things worth something to her in here, but Maaka isn't too interested in getting caught up in the writings. "Loos like the floran got 'em." She says tersely.

    "Wait." She says to Nozomi calmly, before drawing her shotgun again as she approaches the tent cautiously. "Let me check this first, no telling what's in here. I've seen this movie before." Nudging the shotgun against the tent, Maaka is calm and alert as she gets in a hunch...
Corona Arclite "Iffen wordy folk like the Hyotil ain't got words fer what happened, it musta been somethin' big." Corona tosses a journal back in the pile. "Dunno what else we're gonna get outt here."

Though when Nozomi and Alexis go to investigate the tent, Corona picks her shotgun back up to be ready in case it's needed.
Kotone Yamakawa Kotone Yamakawa is on the side trip and Kotone now gets a good look about at the site, she'll not find any traops from the look of it. She takes a moemnt to look the place over, She'll scan the journal entries sh goes over fto go over later. She pauses for a moment but what did the Florans do? She has to wonder about this now, she wonders what have the Florans done? Why is Biteblade just abotu postal about medical data on them. Kotone actually goes through them entirely after all she can pull the memory files from her eyes up later.

"So one of Moonfin's kin pissed off beyond words at something the Florans did..."

She looks to Corona for a moment nodding in agreement even as her drones keep sweeping about. Kotone will also check for anything else worth grabbing.
Rory White     With no apparent danger - just a creeping, terrifying tingle of sorts on her digital psyche - to contend with, Rory scoots in behind Kotone through the door. While she probes the locale with lidar and other sensors she's being rather thorough about scanning the place visually. Her wireless is also searching for signals, but she doubts she'll pick up anything. Probably not even convenional audio frequencies, let alone a network.

    "Sometimes, the style of... just about everything Moonfin's people do... simply baffles me." She exclaims, exasperated.
Starbound Flotilla     Some of the servers are busted. One or two still function. Moonfin advises, over the radio, on a tenuous connection. "The Hylotl care little for secrecy that is not kept in the heart. We are a race that permit all to see our artistry." Assuming it survives, apparently. Some of it functions. Some of it doesn't. Much of it might need some time to get it extracted, but some might work with the right interfaces.

    Most of them are desperate failures to try to identify the sun that keeps showing up in the Ancient symbology. Where IS that Great Sun? Well, this guy has apparently tried hundreds of leads and gotten nowhere. The efforts very abruptly stop after a while, though; somewhere around the time the Floran issue comes up on the journals.
Staren     Staren works with the servers, "Amazing that these are still operating... I wonder what sort of power source they're using? Those looked like chemical batteries back there... Looks like he's been trying to find the location of the 'sun' that shows up in these ancient symbols. Doesn't look like he found it, though, and these stop about the same time as the journals."

    Staren puts the servers in his matter manipulator for now -- He'll recover anything interesting off the others later, and if they decide to continue this guy's search, at least they won't have to retrace any steps.

    So, it's just about time to head over to the main temple, isn't it...?
Sarah Parsle Sarah hears what's going on. Big old strikeout. "All right guys, let's move. This stuff will probably be more useful contextually later." She starts pointing at the main temple. "Come on, let's check that out and see what we can find now."
Kotone Yamakawa Kotone Yamakawa says "Your race's culture reminds me a lot of my father's own, honestly Moonfin, I can kinda get where somethings are coming from in that."

She'll be trying to remote into the servers and she looks back to Rory as she does so for a moment. Sjhe also looks back to staren for a second and she thinks on what he's saying.

"I'm thinking he left, was killed, or maybe took his own life over what the florans did."

She'll head out having found nothing more of worth here.
Alexis Maaka     "Fair enough. Alright, kids, tour's moving." Maaka pulls out the journals as she hands them to Sarah. She might be able to find something useful in them that the cyborg missed, but for now Maaka prefers to focus on the more immediate issues. Shotgun in hand, she takes off in a brisk jog towards the temple itself.
Corona Arclite Corona Arclite follows the others back to the main temple. "Hopefully the big horrible thin' that done these blokes in ain't down here as well."
Rory White     "There are two possibilities." Rory postulates. "The door is some kind of wormhole like a warp gate that lead to perhaps another galaxy entirely... or at least somewhere SO far away that the sky has shifted beyond recognition... or we are in some kind of... some kind of... 'pocket reality,' the mechanics of which I don't want to think about too hard!" Both possibilities are kind of frightening, really. Warp gates alone are interesting, but...

    WHERE ARE THEY?

    She's not so sure that roaming far from the door is a good idea.
Starbound Flotilla     The tent seems mostly left behind... But not entirely devoid of content. He or she seems to have left the bedding here, unlike most travelers. It's possible they simply stormed back out of the door in a rage, or something like that. It's more likely that the damage sustained by the bedding by impaling what looks like a Floran -- the decayed bark-like structure in the tent is hard to identify, but it's PROBABLY Floran remains -- was impaled to it.

    It's likely they left swiftly, and took another tent. But it's also clear that the Hylotl researcher had some positive relationship with one or more Florans...? They clearly discovered something that negatively impacted his or her views on them.
Starbound Flotilla     Kotone can find a meager smattering of loot. Bits of nice furniture, you know, a couple adventuring tools. Guy left in a hurry. It's not a nice situation, but they bailed mad enough to not take their digging tool, for example. Where they went is anyone's guess...
Starbound Flotilla     The ancient temple is densely packed with signals, but not a lot of them make sense. It's likely they're one part of a many-layered communications network that deal with a lot of other things. Notably, these aren't Hylotl, and in fact the Hylotl seemed to be keenly studying some of the wireless signals too. It looks like accessing the network might require some kind of key, but this location seems like it's one part of a larger network, from what little Rory might be able to see.
Kotone Yamakawa Kotone Yamakawa scoops up the things too big to pocket into her matter manipulator and then follows the rest of the party onwards. It's time to get go after all, she keeps checking for wireless singals now herself. She'll end up pinging up with Rory and networking with her as she too tries to help home in on the signal.
Alexis Maaka     Maaka stops to check for wireless signals. Frowning behind her helmet, she begins to network with Kotone and Rory both regarding it as she slings her shotgun. <Big abandoned temple with mysterious wireless signals. This sound sketchy to you guys too?> She messages them.
Corona Arclite Meanwhile Corona tucks her shotgun under one arm and opens her device again. After fiddling with a few settings she sends the photos of the star charts to her ship's SAIL to analyze, and likely send the files along to other SAILS in the Flotilla as well, since they've all likely seen different systems. There's probably not going to be much chance for a match, but it's the best lead to where these guys either came from or where they might of gone that they have.
Sarah Parsle Sarah moves right along with the crew. She notes the wireless signals on her tablet, but she doesn't mess with them, instead looking to Rory. "Hey, Rory." She calls. "Map out the network. Let's see if there's a pattern to it. Something's gotta make sense around here." In the meantime, she examines the temple environment in more detail. There's got to be something around here that stands out and might have something interactable.
Staren     The little side-side-quest done with for the moment, Staren heads back to the most noticeable local structure: The temple. Is there a way in? Is there perhaps a depiction of who the temple is /to/? If there is a way in, what's inside?
Rory White     By the time that things have reached this point, Rory has shifted Flexbot forms into a strange, insectile wheeled mode where her two front wheels can flip between wheels and hands at a moment's notice. Her 'hair' is now stuck to her back to avoid getting in the way. She has a rather merry time zooming around the area. Her wireless is on full sniffing mode, picking up every stray signal on the odd frequencies. She's less interested in stopping to examine everything in detail and instead approaches matters by scanning EVERYTHING around her with high-resolution cameras, recording the whole experience through her mnemonic augmentations for later playback and study. The dimensions of rooms, any engravings on walls.

    She also scrounges around, picking up samples. Dust, if available. A teensy tiny chippingg of whatever material the walls are made of, if possible.

    But what interests her most are the source of those signals! So she's working on triangulating them based on signal strength between her and the Saucer...