On our way into the distress beacon's local system, our preliminary scans show its origin clearly on the moon of a terrestrial planet. It looks to be either a patchwork base or a very fortunate crashsite.

This time, we plan to send our organics and gas ahead, since they can blend in more easily. Communication will be via networked light-sound-touch trancievers, now integrated into our Archive scanners. Our chemist's prototype is miniaturised and transparent, activated by shaking or impact.

gigamicro

sleeby might finish later, or maybe this is the last part ever in which case sorry but hope you liked it, gn