Ancient Ruins

The Ancient Ruins on Synuefe XR-H d11-102 1 B, shown in high contrast

The Ancient Ruins on Synuefe XR-H d11-102 1 B, shown in high contrast

Ancient Ruins are ruins belonging to an alien race known as the Guardians. The first Ancient Ruins site was discovered on October 27, 3302 by CMDR XDeath in the Synuefe XR-H d11-102 system. A second site was discovered on January 29, 3303, and explorers are searching for the locations of three other potential sites.

Description

The Ancient Ruins consist of one main complex of apparent earthworks or buried structures in a roughly-pentagonal shape, with two sections of concentric circular earthworks or structures. Scattered among the complex are numerous clusters of obelisks, which remain functional despite their abandonment. The layout of each site appears to be identical.

Data and Salvage

The features of the ruins could be scanned to acquire encrypted data packages in various patterns: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and Epsilon. In addition, there were six types of salvageable items that could be found: Ancient Orbs, Tablets, Totems, Urns, Caskets, and Relics.

Decryption

Beginning on January 10, 3303, Engineer Ram Tah provided a free decryption program to all ships that docked at any station in the Meene system, which allowed them to decrypt the data found at the ruins. The program was only usable for 28 days after receipt, as the Guardians' technology had the ability to adapt to the decryption. Investigation of the ruins using the program in conjunction with specific combinations of salvage items revealed significant details about the history and culture of the Guardians. As only 36 of 100 possible data entries could be decrypted at the initial site, it was believed that the remaining entries were at other, undiscovered sites.

Additional Sites

On January 24, 3303, Ram Tah announced that analysis of additional data provided by the galactic community had allowed him to detect additional Guardian ruin sites. Although unable to discern the exact number of sites or their locations, he narrowed down the possible locations to four systems: Synuefe ZL-J d10-119, Synuefe XO-P c22-17, IC 2391 Sector ZE-A d101, and IC 2391 Sector GW-V b2-4.

Locations

System	Planet	Surface Coordinates	Notes
Synuefe XR-H d11-102	1 B	-31.806, -128.937	First Ancient Ruins site discovered on Oct. 27, 3302 by CMDR XDeath
IC 2391 Sector GW-V b2-4	B 1	-29.10, -30.51	Second site discovered on Jan. 29, 3303 by CMDR Zorbaq
Synuefe ZL-J d10-119	?	?	Possible location
Synuefe XO-P c22-17	?	?	Possible location
IC 2391 Sector ZE-A d101	C3	29.42, -59.54	Third site discovered on Jan. 30, 3303 by CMDR Khenistry

Notes

• With the release of the 2.2.03 update on January 10, 2017, in addition to the activation of Ram Tah's archaeology mission, the layout of the Ancient Ruins was also slightly changed.

Gallery

Pre-2.2.03

• The original layout of the Ancient Ruins, before 2.2.03
  The original layout of the Ancient Ruins, before 2.2.03
• A tower has risen from the ground, containing an Ancient Relic
  A tower has risen from the ground, containing an Ancient Relic
• Flying low over the Ruins site
  Flying low over the Ruins site
• whole site area is like a shape or pattern.
  whole site area is like a shape or pattern.
• A fighter flying low next to A group of Obelisks
  A fighter flying low next to A group of Obelisks
• SRV next to A obelisk with a blue prism like shape
  SRV next to A obelisk with a blue prism like shape
• A salvageable relic
  A salvageable relic
• SRV next to a icosahedral Ancient Orb
  SRV next to a icosahedral Ancient Orb
• Selling off relics
  Selling off relics
• Space ship next to Obelisk group patterns
  Space ship next to Obelisk group patterns
• SRV next to Obelisk
  SRV next to Obelisk
• Obelisk Data
  Obelisk Data
• IC 2391 Sector ZE-A d101 C3 [29,42/-59.54]
  IC 2391 Sector ZE-A d101 C3 [29,42/-59.54]