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The science team in charge of the unearthing is attacked by the <span class="mu-i">worms</span>. The capsules did not contain the Andoenite aliens, but instead, sleeping worms, ready to pounce the moment the vaults were opened up. Unprepared for this, the science team takes heavy causalities until security and secondary cleanup crews can be dispatched. Thankfully, the worms are prevented from rampaging thru any civilian centers, but it's still bad. The worms are natural predators, capable of killing without weapons or advanced tactics. Several million worms were almost unleashed over the planet's surface, but your security forces and robots have stopped them from escaping and wrecking havoc. Now comes the bloody work of putting them down.
<span class="mu-g">”Dammit! Damn those stupid worms- get the best UV bulbs you can and burn them alive. I will not suffer this humiliation laying down!”</span>
“What would you do in response, my lord?”
<span class="mu-g">”Surely, there must be an avenue to counterattack. The worms are well established all over the galaxy.”</span>
“As diplomats and aristocrats of other nations, yes. Unfortunately, we do not know of any worm strongholds or homeworlds... unless the mysterious Cyte counts, which is still beyond our knowledge.”
<span class="mu-g">”Grr... Still, they attacked a peaceful research team, destroyed a bunch of useful ancient artifacts... Those <span class="mu-i">parasites</span>.”</span>
“Discretion is the better part of valor, my lord. I doubt your people would see you as impotent if you didn't take revenge on such a faceless and ethereal enemy.”
<span class="mu-g">”Damn. What about the other vaults?”</span>
“The concept of reburying them to see how they work could be useful, if not for the knowledge. But those vaults remained unopened fo a very long time. It's possible they have a very long stint before they activate. Even if it only takes 0.1% of the time they were working to work again, that would be a hundred thousand years, far longer then our civilization could reasonably try to research them. The vaults are also constructed with Azurium, which makes their parts valuable commodities. It's not enough to act as another source of it for large scale projects, but it could result in an economic boom.”
<span class="mu-g">”Hmm. Alright, let me think about it...”</span>
Do you want to rebury the other vaults for research purposes or liquidate their valuable Azurium?
>Bury & Wait
>Collect Azurium
And what to do about the worm attack?
>Kill the closest worms you know of (violates international treaties with Esaal & Consortium)
>Torture the captured worms as an example
>Go on a Space Whale curing spree in open space
>Let it go... for now
