- Do you see the long walkway heading into the alien structure? That is the culmination of decades of work, and a massive gamble by the Bretonian government. Major Adriana Parsons was a professor assigned to the BAE at Camp Bede in the early 700s. She discovered the Amiatinus Cache, and deciphered the glyphs that unlocked the Sunderland airlock. She was later killed exploring Jarrow's depths -- truly the loss of a Bretonian visionary.
- Back before the Colony wars, Dr. Kendra Sinclair was one of our foremost xenoarchaeologists, but she disappeared. There are rumours that she joined The Order. We know they oppose the Nomads, but they're also dangerous vigilantes and terrorists, who'll murder on a hunch. I knew Kendra, and she wouldn't join such a group. There must be more to it.
- Only the most trusted scientists from Cambridge are allowed to come here to study Site Jarrow -- and then, only under the binding terms of the Official Secrets Act. There are also many inactive Artifacts that we ship to the University for further study, usually under the pretense that they were excavated on Sprague. There are so many individual objects here that we'd never be able to fully study all of them in-house.
- The Blackout momentarily switched off the anti-grav pylons that keep Site Jarrow in the sky. We immediately dropped a kilometer before they re-engaged. Sunderland got banged up something fierce, but thankfully no-one was killed. Now that Site Jarrow is waking up, we're contemplating rigging those anti-grav structures with bombs as a contingency plan against a worst case scenario. We don't truly know what the place is actually for, after all.
- The central structure of Site Jarrow was dead and dormant, right up until the end of the Colony Wars. BIS operatives have since learned that other ancient alien structures reactivated in the Edge Worlds around the same time. It's still unclear what exactly prompted this, but it does indicate a disturbing degree of networking between these sites. We're not sure what the activated lower beam pylon is for, either.
- The scientists here believe Site Jarrow belonged to an ancient race known as the Daam-K'Vosh. In a century of exploration, we've deciphered only a fraction of the markings within. What we've learned thus far suggests that this was some kind of automated outpost, possibly a relay or conduit of some kind. What was being relayed is open to speculation -- power, communications, something else? I fear before long we may find out the hard way.
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