Artifact or Artifiction?

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Status Current Mission
Description

A routine planetary scan reveals ancient ruins of an unknown race on Pi Serpentis IX. An away team is dispatched to investigate and report their discoveries.

Also a Shakedown mission.

Start Date Fri May 29th, 2026 @ 3:07am

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Mission Summary

The ruins are completely uninhabited. Information from within the ruins suggest the race that built the ruins was destroyed by infighting.

In the ruins, the party discovers scavengers actively dismantling an artifact. They have been commissioned to loot the ruins by Ferengi traders hoping to turn a profit. The artifact is what has been keeping the ruins from collapsing.

The ruins are difficult to navigate because every floor is a series of rotating concentric circles, redirecting pathways every minute.
As the away tem enter the ruin, a beacon is triggered. It is not encrypted, and its transmission is aimed directly at a star nearby.

The architecture of the ruins has much in common with modern-day Ferengi architecture, although it appears to be an earlier iteration