Due North of
Griffsilv Crater there are several clusters of mostly abandoned and decaying Astronaut Cult Shrines where ancient girders groan and flake away under the cruel ministrations of the acid rains and howling winds whipping through these ruins like remorseless banshees. Few of the scavengers and scrap-gatherers ever go to these contaminated and haunted places. The necessary corrosion protocols alone are enough to deter the poorest and meanest of those who would otherwise attempt to strip such sites bare in their pursuit of old alloy and recovered trinkets.
Bloat-Puffers,
Sizzlers and
Reducing-Blobs are far too common in the area for weaker, less well-armed parties of would be archaeologists or documentarians, though the occasional college freshmen, self-selected suicide-lottery contestant or demented crew of a dust-trawler gone mad with the unending repetition of their dreary routine run off to prove to an uncaring world that they can succeed where no one else has, with understandably predictable and usually dire results.
Three drones have returned from this region in as many centuries. The satellites can't -- or won't -- map the area due to strange interference and unexplained hot-spots that may or may not be Nexus Points left behind by the more dangerously deranged of the old cults.
It's a dangerous place, over and above the usual day-to-day hazards of eking out a miserable life in the dust and debris of Ain 4.
But if you have the means, and the fire-power, there are rumors of fabulous treasures buried deep beneath the fungi-infested scaffolds, mold-covered gantries and lingering shrines of the old Astronaut Cults. Maybe you can be one of the lucky ones and succeed where everyone else has failed before?
