017

There was always the feeling that they were being watched.

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016

Countless crews were lost to the Masses, as their unpredictable positioning meant they never seemed to remain in the same place. Only the lucky few were found again by chance, and the stories they told should have acted as warnings to be heeded.

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015

The resources demanded by the exploration of the SOM were so immense that the scramble to find hardware to do what was required was a free-for-all. Regardless of the age, if it ran and could be kept running, it was shipped through the portal and put to work.

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014

And the exploitation began.

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013

The structures they found were bleak edifices, cast in place and lifeless.

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012

They optimistically set up outposts to monitor and observe. Never sure of what they would find, it was agreed they never would have thought of what they did.

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011

For reasons unknown, there were Masses where the hulls would not fly and the ground vehicles stopped dead in their tracks. Exploration was reduced to foot and the scale changed, amplifying the strangeness of these alien places.

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010

They dove deeper into the White Silent, beginning to explore spaces between the Masses. Spaces that begged yet more questions with answers that had very little chance to be understood.

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009

The plains of grass seemed so familiar, it was easy to forget the strange devices that seemed to communicate with the past.

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008

And they started to pull apart what they found, hoping to find the secrets within but only finding dust.

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