Musings: A Chess Player

After nearly ten years of playing the game near the water, I finally figured it out.

The Marker Stone is a dead piece.

It could not be replicated or placed throughout Talos-II.

Xiranite mass production is a near-impossible hurdle on its own. Rift suppression machinery and facilities are also extremely difficult to make.

The Marker Stone is the grand technological achievement for Wuling, or the entirety of Hongshan, even. But producing more of it is beyond our reach.

Surveyors and traveling vendors would give us data and intel... And every year, I would read every file at least twenty times. Wuling is the only place in Talos-II where a comprehensive Xiranite infrastructure is possible...

But a dead piece can be revived again. Hope can be found amidst doom.

We just need a construction system capable of working in wildly different environments.