Limbos is an anomaly event chain triggered by investigating the On the Barren Plains anomaly that can appear on barren worlds. The event chain has the potential of creating another empire on the galactic stage upon its conclusion.
The signal originates from the remains of an antenna-like structure. Exploratory probes were dispatched from the [science ship name] to the surface to investigate the matter more closely.
What Science Officer [science ship scientist] found was a cavernous vault that, while easily pried open, was evidently the last safehouse and refuge of some long-dead race of aliens. While reasonably technologically advanced, it seems they never reached for the stars and perished to some planet-wide natural disaster. The vault is immense, housing thousands upon thousands of black boxes that the [science ship name] has determined to be data storage devices.
A Special Project has been prepared to decode their contents.
Science Officer [science ship scientist] asserts that the huge blocks of ternary code found in the databanks are neural images; digitized brain scans. Doubtlessly the aliens of [anomaly planet name] considered this to be their only shot at any kind of survival following whatever calamity befell their planet. They did not have the means to resurrect themselves, but banked on the impossibly small hope that, eventually, someone else would.
Trigger conditions:
Limbo
Is triggered only by:
Finishing the In Limbo special project
Let dead aliens lie.
Engineering Research Gained: 150-10000
We do not, but download their neural patterns for safekeeping.
Engineering Research Gained: 120-10000
Enigmatic Observers fallen empire may send a unique request
Downloaded neural patterns
Upload the neural patterns.
Issue Special Project: Limbo: A Second Chance
Limbo: Technological Advances
Following the recent advancements in the field of robotics, our researchers suggest that the ancient neural scans we once recovered from an alien vault could potentially be used as Artificial Intelligence substitutes in robots.
Some uncertainties still remain regarding whether the robotic bodies are sophisticated enough to support a higher neurological consciousness, however.
Trigger conditions:
In Limbo
Downloaded neural patterns
Synthetics technology
Artificial Intelligence policy is not set to Outlawed
Mean time to happen:
20 days
Let dead aliens lie.
Engineering Research Gained: 150-10000
It's worth a try.
Engineering Research Gained: 150-10000
Issue Special Project: Limbo: A Second Chance
Limbo: A New Beginning
After many trials the engineering department has finally managed to transfer the extinct aliens' neural scans to robotic bodies, and the results are exhilarating. The ancient aliens have fully regained consciousness and have expressed a desire to join our empire, requesting our permission to colonize a new planet within our borders.
Trigger conditions:
In Limbo
Any uncolonized habitable planet within borders
Artificial Intelligence policy is not set to Outlawed
Is triggered only by:
Finishing the Limbo: A Second Chance special project
We would be honored.
A random uncolonized habitable world within the empire's borders is colonized with three Mechanical Pops
It's better if we part ways.
Limbo: Awakening
After many trials the engineering department has finally managed to transfer the extinct aliens' neural scans to robotic bodies, and the results are exhilarating. The ancient aliens have fully regained consciousness and have expressed a desire to strike out on their own and rebuild their empire.
Trigger conditions:
In Limbo
All uncolonized habitable planet are outside borders
Artificial Intelligence policy is not set to Outlawed
Is triggered only by:
Finishing the Limbo: A Second Chance special project
Dismantle them.
Minerals Gained: 200
We won't stand in their way.
Limbo: Spirits in the Wires
The engineering department has returned with some highly disturbing news. After concluding the final day of "Project Limbo" with yet another seemingly failed attempt at uploading the alien neural scans to robotic bodies, the scientists returned the following day to find the robots missing.
Some believe the attempt succeeded after all and that the aliens stole away in the night, others that it's an elaborate hoax. We may never know for sure...
Trigger conditions:
In Limbo
No uncolonized habitable planet in the galaxy or Artificial Intelligence policy is set to Outlawed
Is triggered only by:
Finishing the Limbo: A Second Chance special project
Remarkable.
Engineering Research Gained: 120-10000
Society Research Gained: 120-10000
Limbo: The Awoken
Reports are coming in that the aliens, whose minds we uploaded to robotic bodies, have colonized a planet and now style themselves "the Awoken."