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In other news- Talacenti is finally in place!
The orbit around Schoon was completed using very powerful antigravity engines and other Hypertronic containment to avoid gravity being distorted. You also had to wait for this window for many years where Schoon was far away from the other worlds; and only now is it in a stable orbit. This introduction will be a huge boon and mass increase to your production facilities!
While the material composition of Talacenti was known for a long time, those survey tools and material samples are very old now, and much of the knowledge was lost during the Alavis crisis. The Jaxtians remember the planet had rare earth minerals, thick and dense crust, with pockets of gas. Exactly how this planet could be mined or exploited is still up in the air. Perhaps you need an Overseer of Planetary scale engineer projects soon...
However, there is a problem. The new astronauts step on the exoplanet, for the first time in centuries, all die. Within a few short hours, everyone who <span class="mu-i">steps foot on the planet dies</span>. Medical scans and quick autopsies seem to show the death is by <span class="mu-i"><span class="mu-s">heavy metal poisoning</span></span>. It sounds absurd, especially since these Astronauts are in fully sealed space suits, but the evidence is undeniable. You quickly banned manned expeditions to Talacent for the time being. What is happening here?
Worse yet, you don't think your Science Overseer, Tetak Kallas, wants to allocate much time or effort to explain this phenomena- his own work on Starsight and unproven psychic theories are taking up most of your science resources at the moment. What will you do?
>Order Tetak to investigate and explain the deaths
>Create a new Space Suit that is safe for the planet's surface (Expensive)
>Ignore it for now
