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Hi Al-Q,

please find attached ...

m.f.g.

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Our Forthieth Week [ December 1st to December 5th]
A concrete plan to trap the C-probe - Bette and Isaac safe - Gail and Daniel in Jose's cave

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OUR FOURTIETH WEEK [December 1st to December 5th]
A concrete plan to trap the C-probe - Bette and Isaac safe - Gail and Daniel in Jose's cave

[Week 40]Bette hadn't been hurt by the rocket of the C-probe, but half of Cave #3 collapsed. Isaac lost by that was found shocked but well in a niche. The C-probe remained at the northwest escarpment. When Isaac found a tunnel that leads deep into the Olympus Mons, he and Bette got out of reach. -- Andrew and Zachary prepared themselves to trap the C-probe. They moved three drones and two miners over to the rough ground to dig a pit and Zachary picked up an emergency beacon, that was disassembled by Enoch from the remainders of the EU-probe, Gail once killed.

Daniel and Gail went down the hatch in Jose's cave and were picked up by Ipsolstai. Daniel, who should get a new transmitter was in panic, but calmed down a little when Burn appeared ...

Are the Ipsolstai still hostile ?? Will Burn help ?? Can Andrew and Zachary trap the C-probe ??

Links to Transmission Archive: [Inbound Transmission History, week 27 forward]
Image Archive: [rocket impact at cave # 3; Bette 12/01][a tunnel in cave # 3; Bette 12/03][two loader drones; Andrew 12/03][the crack; Andrew 12/05][That's me; Enoch 12/05][Daniel in Jose's cave; Gail 12/05]

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QUICK OVERVIEW

FROM WEEK ZERO UP TO NOW [December 5th]

Gail and Daniel Rejoin ...
Feeling bad about killing an EU-probe, Gail had been off for several weeks, now coming back with Daniel to rejoin the Probes in the Fortress, that had been expanded by a neighboring round, which had been found by Bette, as she drilled an escape tunnel. Doing so she also found vitrified rocks. Bette's communications had been melted in the fight against the EU-probes, so Daniel gave her his device till a better solution will be found, then he helped to replace Enochs broken legs and Gail asked Burn for a new transmitter. Daniel had also a better hand with Lucy than Zachary, so she ran after him, when he and Gail went over to Jose's cave to contact Burn. Picked up by Ipsolstai inside the cave, Daniel were in panic, but calmed down when Burn appeared ...

The Chinese Lander ...
All this time a weak ping could be heard and Daniel detected a huge lander, which most likely is the announced Chinese lander. The ping and an echo of it had been also received by Al-Q who finally detected an orbiter and located a ground station and a mobile beacon. Andrew seeing a black cloud at the horizon found solid tracks and also Stage Two destroyed, while Bette and Isaac crossed the plain to explore cave #3. On their way over there they found hills with another cave north of the escarpment, while Andrew stumbled over an armed probe with rockets mounted on top. When Lucy ran toward it, she got killed. Zachary and Bette tried to ping pong the C-probe over the plain by attracting it's attention with their emergency beacons. It worked, but then Bette was attacked by one of its rockets. She wasn't hurt and could get out of reach, when she and Isaac entered a tunnel, they had found in cave #3. Zachary and Andrew prepared themselves to trap the C-probe in a pit ...

Are the Ipsolstai still hostile ?? Are Dilyn and others still in danger ?? Can the C-probe be trapped ??

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