Mission ; Rescue science team - The mysterious caldera.

A month ago we got a report from an old prospector that they had found a planet side site with a huge fog bound caldera. The prospector attempted a brief peek into the fog only to find that the flight controls of his vessel became increasingly difficult to control. He barely manage to escape unscathed.

We organised a science team to analyse the area to assess the danger. They left 10 days ago and at first all seemed well until the last message was received, it got cut off mid call. That was 72 hours ago and we have not heard from them since.

It is believed that what ever is in the area of the caldera has an unpredictable nature that can give a false sense of security.

We ask you to to investigate, recover the science team and exercise extreme caution.

Spoiler - below

The caldera was the site of an ancient alien mining works. The fog is part of a life support system for the alien species, but is otherwise toxic to humans. In addition some of the mining equipment malfunctioned causing the fog to be highly disruptive to gyro navigation.

You will need to construct several rover based systems to transit the caldera area and an adequate amount of power during your time there.

Some automated defences are operational, part of the mining area is flooded and a submersible will be needed to access deeper parts of the mine.

The science team is mostly intact and relatively safe. The majority of them are huddled up in what appears to be living quarters of the previous miners. Two members of the science team have disappeared deeper into the mine. They were fascinated by the alien engineering and wanted to explore further and record data on the mining site whilst the rest of the team were waiting for a rescue.

The missing scientists became disorientated during their studies and ended up much deeper into the mine than they intended. Will they still be alive when they are discovered, if they at discovered at all?

Long range communication is pretty useless on the ground area of the caldera.

Once the missing scientists have been rescued and the deepest part of the mine accessed it will be possible to remove the fog or convert it to a more human friendly form.

The site has some minable resources left, and would otherwise make a great tourist resort in the future.