Swings and Roundabouts Part 3

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Missions

Analyze the Mycelial Network.

Overview

Warp required1

Operations level35

Warp for completion25

Warp via superhighway1

Completion via superhighway25

Costs & rewards

Mission rewards

3★ Uncommon Refined Crystal

Objective ID698,561,676

Amount38

Dilithium

Objective ID698,561,676

Amount911,000

Locations

Objectives

Objective 1

ObjectiveFind an Anomaly.

DestinationNalomas

Objective 2

ObjectiveMine 100 Raw Mycelium.

DestinationSystem -1

ResourceMycelium Spore

Amount100

Objective 3

ObjectiveReturn to your Station.

Objective 4

ObjectiveFind another Anomaly.

DestinationOrdesia

Objective 5

ObjectiveModify 100 Mycelium by exposing it to the Anomaly.

ResourceMycelium Spore

Amount100

Objective 6

ObjectiveGo to Warp.

DestinationTau Ceti

Dialogue

Mission dialogue

Objective ID: 1,091,405,057
Phase: dialogue_start
Character: Maia
Dialogue: Interesting. Initial scans show that the Mycelium in this system is exhibiting some signs of… degradation. I recommend that we gather samples for analysis.

Objective ID: 1,109,288,682
Phase: dialogue_start
Character: Maia
Dialogue: Beginning compositional analysis…

Objective ID: 1,109,288,682
Phase: dialogue_start
Character: Maia
Dialogue: Interesting. The Spores have begun to… reconstruct themselves. Ionized hadron levels are decreasing, they seem to be returning to their natural state.

Objective ID: 1,109,288,682
Phase: dialogue_start
Character: Maia
Dialogue: Fungi have remarkable properties. It is very possible that mycelial spores are capable of self-regeneration.

Objective ID: 1,109,288,682
Phase: dialogue_start
Character: Maia
Dialogue: This begs the question, however, why had they not regenerated until now? Perhaps the answer lies within the Anomalies themselves, the gateways to the Mycelial Network.

Objective ID: 1,109,288,682
Phase: dialogue_start
Character: Maia
Dialogue: Commander, we should examine another Anomaly.

Objective ID: 1,915,012,217
Phase: dialogue_start
Character: Maia
Dialogue: Commander, I believe the answer to this mystery may lie within the Mycelial Network itself.

Objective ID: 1,915,012,217
Phase: dialogue_start
Character: Maia
Dialogue: The Discovery’s spore drive is unique, in that it combines engineering and biology into one discipline. The engine is indistinguishable from the Network it navigates.

Objective ID: 1,915,012,217
Phase: dialogue_start
Character: Maia
Dialogue: I am marking a known Mycelium deposit nearby. I recommend we begin our analysis there.

Objective ID: 211,730,305
Phase: dialogue_start
Character: Maia
Dialogue: The Mycelium Spores have yet to show signs of alteration. Perhaps if we expose 100 Mycelium directly to the Anomaly…

Objective ID: 265,089,956
Phase: dialogue_start
Character: Maia
Dialogue: I am detecting trace amounts of ionized hadron particles in the composition of these mycelial spores. This is highly unusual.

Objective ID: 265,089,956
Phase: dialogue_start
Character: Maia
Dialogue: We are on the right track, Commander. Something is happening within the Mycelial Network. We should return these samples to our Station.

Objective ID: 698,561,676
Phase: dialogue_end
Character: Maia
Dialogue: Energy spike detected within the cargo bay, analyzing… The Mycelium is combusting, Commander! Isolating cargo, preparing failsafes…

Objective ID: 698,561,676
Phase: dialogue_end
Character: Maia
Dialogue: Interesting. Going to Warp seems to have triggered some sort of explosive reaction. I wonder if…

Objective ID: 698,561,676
Phase: dialogue_end
Character: Mission Computer
Dialogue: Commander!? Is that you?

Objective ID: 698,561,676
Phase: dialogue_end
Character: Maia
Dialogue: Lieutenant Stamets? How are you contacting us?

Objective ID: 698,561,676
Phase: dialogue_end
Character: Mission Computer
Dialogue: I have no idea! We’ve never been able to receive communications from outside the Network before.

Objective ID: 698,561,676
Phase: dialogue_end
Character: Maia
Dialogue: Our experiment. We must have triggered some sort of cascading effect within the Network… Lieutenant, we have discovered something crucial.

Objective ID: 698,561,676
Phase: dialogue_end
Character: Maia
Dialogue: The Mycelial Network is undergoing some kind of metamorphosis. Something external is triggering a change within its structure.

Objective ID: 698,561,676
Phase: dialogue_end
Character: Mission Computer
Dialogue: Damn it. That’s exactly what I hoped you wouldn’t say.

Objective ID: 698,561,676
Phase: dialogue_end
Character: Mission Computer
Dialogue: We picked up some strange readings from our Spore Engine when we made the first jump. The next thing we knew… We were stuck in this loop.

Objective ID: 698,561,676
Phase: dialogue_end
Character: Maia
Dialogue: You are saying that your jumping is what triggered this chain reaction?

Objective ID: 698,561,676
Phase: dialogue_end
Character: Mission Computer
Dialogue: It shouldn’t have! Our inhibitors are in place for exactly this reason. There’s no way our jumps would have caused something like this, unless… unless…

Objective ID: 698,561,676
Phase: dialogue_end
Character: Maia
Dialogue: Someone removed the inhibitors.

Objective ID: 698,561,676
Phase: dialogue_start
Character: Maia
Dialogue: Success. Ionized hadron levels are increasing. It is conclusive, then. The Mycelial Network is undergoing some sort of change. This is likely the cause of the Discovery’s malfunction.

Objective ID: 698,561,676
Phase: dialogue_start
Character: Maia
Dialogue: There is only one way to be sure, however. We must replicate, to the best of our ability, the conditions of the malfunction.

Objective ID: 698,561,676
Phase: dialogue_start
Character: Maia
Dialogue: We must go to Warp while affected by the altered Mycelium.

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