Third day since their forced landing on this planet, Nicholas or Nick, their AI chief of sciences, told him their colleagues Fred and Galilea have the first measurements results of this planet, including the day and night. Alex's curious about the naming sense they are doing, and Matt told him basically each chooses their own, and because most of the time they choose famous researchers from Earth history, Alex just thought it's a matter of time seeing Albert and others.
As if reading his mind, Matt speaks: [by the way, we already have Hypatia working with us].
[Hypatia?]
[Yes, from Hypatia of Alexandria]
Alex just thought to search later in the database; he carries a nice tablet pad and wifi in the ship; it's working.
[We measured the day and night taking the biggest of the 2 suns; it seems we are immersed inside a nebulae; this helps distort the damage from excessive UV rays having 2 suns.]
[Now, this is preliminary, but the rotation we stimated in 32 hours, using Earth standards, could be almost half of the 32 hours. We also think we are on a planet that could be 10 times the size of the Earth; the atmosphere is rich in oxygen, something the Earth shows similarities in the past; now, about the energy we found here, we don't have any data from Earth information.]
To try put simple: it's curious element that's it's new or the Earth didn't have enough to be noticed, it's a type of element and energy that emits radiation, affecting everything, further research it's strongly recommended, this element or energy, the locals named something like "Ethera"and was researched and tamed, if they could have a comparison just to getting a better picture it would be as if Tesla have installed inalambric electricity, but here they found clues of the animals or monsters using as manipulation medium to induce creation of effects or materials, some samples of the first day monsters battle was dissect and found evidence of this, also, besides some organs like the heart, it naturally form a crystal, those crystals are naturally adept to very specific frecuencias of the Ethera, creating effects or materials compatible with the crystals.
It's as saying: the Earth Worm was mud and earth, sand to be precise, but the Scorpions were earth and iron; to them, creating something else was almost impossible.
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Finally, Maira, explains she's worried about Alex, Rafa and his team are ready modify the robots bodies to be better adapted, the natural interference of this Ethera affects even wireless communications, inside the facilities they noticed the less concentrated Ethera, and adding to the worries, the readings are increasing everyday, so They want to move as soon as possible to the inside the Mountains facilities, they are ready started to working on those objectives, but they will soon hit the wall of energy supply to the robots and AI's, as it's now they burning diesel to get electricity a d that's a finite resource, not mentioning ethera could modify the hydrocarbon molecules to something unusable as energy source.
Karol is working around the clock decoding the language; the bottleneck now is that they found something like a library, something that measures over a few kilometers in tunnels, warehouses, or vaults. The key issues start with the languages in the engraving being different from the scrolls or tomes so far. Steve, the IT AI, adjunct to Rafa, is trying to get anything in place to be practical in reality, including the powering systems of the facilities; it seems they use Ethera as a source. Also, they found something akin to Golems, a very simple robot, using engraving as a system; somehow they remind mid-20th-century vacuum bulbs and punching cards.
Still, they will research the golems, as they could seem advantageous in reinforcing bodies or ethereal sources of energy.
Alex will be relocated the next morning.
Just after ending the meeting they received a good news and bad news: Rafa and Steve got their way to use the systems using Ethera as energy source to generate electricity, it's unbelievable source using red Scorpions crystals, they first stimations are 500x better than nuclear reactors and they have some SMR (Small Modular Reactor) inside the containers that's it's unusable without radioactive fuels, but now they just need to place those crystals, as is now, it could take some time, but they at least have an alternative, the moving to the inside the Mountains they could use the working energy supply with ethera, as water source, the facilities have systems that's needs maintenance but no big deal, the habitants used golems as menial workers, specialized in maintenance, mining, processing, agriculture, husbandry or military.
Some of them adapt to hominids driving inside.
Some of the robots using hominid forms are trying to use those; more effort has been dedicated to scanning the scrolls or tomes containing information they urgently need.
The bad news is that the explorers in the desert side have distance limitations due to the increasing Ethera in the environment. So far they could explore some 30 kilometers from the Adela Ship; they found more ships, but no survivors; almost all of them have the lifeboat launched; some more containers, some with 12 thousand teus capacity, 2 with 16 thousand, and 3 with 20 thousand; also some tankers with oil, gas, fuels, or chemicals.