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The Life Vaults built on Vetuck and Swall were obviously built when the planets harbored life on them. While the exact reason as to how they work or why they were built has not yet been answered, it still shows that planets that housed life were chosen for these special installations. But these are not the only planets in your local cluster which the Andoen aliens could have reached. Two more planets, the Andoen homeworld, as well as your own homeworld of Jaxt, both had life at the times when the Life Vaults were built, and they have yet to be seriously searched for Life Vaults of their own. It seems like a non-starter to assume those planets don't have life vaults of their own; <span class="mu-i">why</span> would they build them on Swallia and Vetuck II but not Jaxt or their own homeworld? Logic would dictate that those planets would have life vaults too.
...But what would you even find there?
If the life pods are sentient, and are tasked with perserving the intelligent life of the planet in the event of mass death and extinction, then Jaxt would either be innert or constantly filling and purging with its current members in preparation for a mass death. Or perhaps, more disturbingly, could it have interpreted the rogue AI of Ingar's coup as an extinction event? And what of the Andoen? The yet unknown three eyed alien giants could still exist within their own life pods. And with knowledge of that ancient time when they were still alive.
As a saving grace, your scientists have already ruled out the possibility that there were any life vaults built on the planet Xin, the once-homeworld of the Blue Hazaar hybrids. That planet was inert and lifeless until you terraformed and colonized it, meaning there are no life pods underneath, the Blue Hazaar are truly gone.
As a final complication, it seems once the life vaults are opened and the pods releasing their charges of cloned survivors, they seem to <span class="mu-i">no longer be able to function</span>, like opening the box spoils the mystery. It makes sense they are one time use only, but it does mean that digging them up will prevent their function as serving as a second chance for a species...
What should you do?
>Find & Open Life Vaults (Andoen, Jaxt, or both- specify)
>Leave the Life Vault on Jaxt as a second chance for the Jaxtian people in case of extinction
>Destroy the Life Vault on Andoen and prevent whatever is inside from ever being released
>Wait & Bury the two open vaults to see if you can “reset” them to see how they work
>Other (Write-In)
