A: Human, we found an abandoned mineshaft! (cracks flare)
B: Dumb question, what were they mining down there?
A: (pulls out data pad) umm records says... they were harvesting a resource called petroleum. Why?
B: No reason. Imma go fire up the ship... -- Anon Guest
[AN: This seems very erroneous. On multiple levels]
There are reasons why graveworlds are graveworlds, and many of them do not leave the infrastructure intact. Well. Intact except for a fine layer of carbon. Everything organic was long gone, but all of the buildings and machines were still in near-perfect condition.
And every city had a mineshaft.
They were able to decant the records into the main system, but translating from the local dialect took time. That was why Barb was extra skittish about investigating anything dark and deep. She held the flare given to her by Aude, but waited for more data.
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