TELLURION

Events

72 events across 7 families. Some are good news, some are bad, and some are dilemmas with no clean answer. Most ask you to choose, and every choice is listed with its exact effects.

Meteor Impact
Astronomical · Planet · turns 15–500
Dilemma

A meteor has come down inside your territory.

Meteor Fall
Astronomical · Planet · turns 8–200
Boon

A fresh meteor has exposed a rich metallic field inside the city boundary.

Solar Flare
Astronomical · Galaxy · turns 25–500
Bane

The star has thrown a flare. Every grid in the system is browning out.

Solar Wind Storm
Astronomical · Galaxy · turns 20–500
Dilemma

A solar wind storm is driving charged particles through every grid.

Comet Passage
Astronomical · Galaxy · turns 30–500
Dilemma

A bright comet is crossing the system, close enough to change plans.

Total Eclipse
Astronomical · Galaxy · turns 4–500
Dilemma

The inner moon crosses the sun. The whole system stops to watch.

Radiation Storm
Astronomical · Planet · turns 40–500
Bane

A radiation storm is stripping exposed settlements and machinery.

Micrometeor Swarm
Astronomical · Planet · turns 60–500
Bane

A micrometeor swarm is sweeping through the orbital lanes.

Stellar Quiescence
Astronomical · Galaxy · turns 60–500
Boon

The star has entered an unusually quiet interval.

First Light
Astronomical · Planet · turns 4–120
Boon

Your astronomers have finished the first survey of the sky.

River Flood
Geological · Planet · turns 10–500
Dilemma

The river has come over its banks and into the lower districts.

Great Flood
Geological · Planet · turns 80–500
Bane

The rivers have joined into a flood no unprepared district can hold.

Earthquake
Geological · Planet · turns 25–500
Bane

The ground has moved. Walls are down across the province.

Drought
Geological · Planet · turns 20–500
Dilemma

A long dry season is cutting the planet's usable water supply.

Volcanic Eruption
Geological · Planet · turns 30–500
Bane

The volcanic belt has opened. Lava and ash are swallowing settled ground.

Sinkhole
Geological · Planet · turns 20–500
Dilemma

A sinkhole has opened beneath one of the planet's extraction sites.

New Vein Exposed
Geological · Planet · turns 12–500
Boon

A collapse has opened a face nobody knew was there.

Thermal Vent Found
Geological · Planet · turns 40–500
Boon

A newly exposed thermal vent can carry a power plant without excavation.

Silt Bloom
Geological · Planet · turns 1–500
Boon

The floodwater has retreated, leaving unusually fertile silt behind.

Quarry Face
Geological · Planet · turns 4–120
Boon

The quarry crew have found better stone one bench down.

River Shifts
Geological · Planet · turns 4–120
Dilemma

The river has cut a new channel and left your wells on dry ground.

Great Flood Contained
Geological · Planet · turns 80–500
Bane

The rivers rise against the levees, and the prepared districts hold.

Crop Blight
Biological · Planet · turns 15–500
Bane

A blight is in the grain.

Plague
Biological · Planet · turns 18–500
Dilemma

A sickness is running through the crowded quarters.

Baby Boom
Biological · Planet · turns 6–500
Boon

A generation is arriving all at once, and the nurseries are full.

Bumper Harvest
Biological · Planet · turns 4–500
Boon

The season has been kind. The granaries will not hold it all.

Invasive Swarm
Biological · Planet · turns 30–500
Dilemma

An invasive swarm is stripping the fields faster than it can be contained.

Xeno Microbe
Biological · Planet · turns 110–500
Dilemma

An alien microbe has been isolated in the colony samples.

Hardy Strain
Biological · Planet · turns 1–500
Boon

A hardy native strain has taken root in the burned ground.

Resistant Strain
Biological · Planet · turns 1–500
Bane

The sprayed swarm has returned with a resistant strain.

Wandering Herd
Biological · Planet · turns 4–120
Boon

A migration has come through, and it is enormous.

Hard Winter
Biological · Planet · turns 15–120
Bane

The cold has come early and it has not let go.

General Strike
Social · Planet · turns 25–500
Dilemma

A general strike has closed workshops across the planet.

Founders Festival
Social · Planet · turns 4–500
Boon

The founding is being kept properly this year.

Migration Wave
Social · Planet · turns 40–500
Dilemma

A migration wave has reached the planet asking for somewhere to settle.

Exodus
Social · Planet · turns 40–500
Bane

Families are leaving a planet they no longer believe in.

Civil Unrest
Social · Planet · turns 25–500
Bane

There are crowds in the square and they are not celebrating.

Hero Emerges
Social · Planet · turns 20–500
Dilemma

A hero has emerged from the planet's armed forces.

Cultural Renaissance
Social · Empire · turns 60–500
Boon

A cultural renaissance is carrying new confidence across the empire.

Religious Revival
Social · Planet · turns 15–500
Dilemma

A religious revival is dividing public life across the planet.

Founders Quarrel
Social · Planet · turns 10–120
Dilemma

The builders and the elders have fallen out, publicly.

Itinerant Engineer
Social · Planet · turns 4–120
Boon

A works crew has arrived looking for a contract.

Industrial Accident
Industrial · Planet · turns 20–500
Bane

A works accident has torn through the industrial quarter.

Mine Collapse
Industrial · Planet · turns 15–500
Dilemma

A gallery has come down with a shift underground.

Supply Chain Failure
Industrial · Planet · turns 60–500
Bane

The freight chain has seized up from one end to the other.

Lab Breakthrough
Industrial · Empire · turns 12–500
Boon

A laboratory team has broken through a problem thought intractable.

Prototype Offered
Industrial · Empire · turns 30–500
Dilemma

A prototype design has been offered to the state for development.

Prototype Trial
Industrial · Empire · turns 1–500
Dilemma

The funded prototype is ready for its decisive trial.

Reactor Excursion
Industrial · Planet · turns 55–500
Dilemma

A fission reactor has suffered a dangerous excursion.

Core Meltdown
Industrial · Planet · turns 1–500
Bane

The pushed reactor's core has melted down.

Safety Culture
Industrial · Planet · turns 1–500
Boon

The full inspection has changed the planet's industrial culture.

Surplus Tooling
Industrial · Planet · turns 15–500
Boon

A run of surplus tooling is ready to be put to work.

Survey Party
Industrial · Planet · turns 4–120
Boon

The survey party is back with a very good map.

Derelict Found
Space · Empire · turns 65–500
Dilemma

A derelict hulk is drifting in a reachable orbit.

Salvage Claim
Space · Empire · turns 1–500
Dilemma

The boarding party has reached the derelict's sealed compartments.

Precursor Cache
Space · Empire · turns 1–500
Boon

The opened compartment contains a precursor cache.

Derelict Contagion
Space · Planet · turns 1–500
Bane

A contagion from the derelict has reached the landing body.

Anomaly Detected
Space · Empire · turns 70–500
Dilemma

Something out there is returning a signal it should not be.

Distress Call
Space · Empire · turns 90–500
Dilemma

A contacted rival's fleet is broadcasting a distress call.

First Contact Echo
Space · Empire · turns 1–500
Dilemma

The first signal from another empire is on every receiver you own.

Wormhole Trace
Space · Empire · turns 200–500
Dilemma

A transient wormhole trace is repeating between two orbital lanes.

Debris Cascade
Space · Planet · turns 100–500
Bane

A debris cascade is crossing the orbital lanes.

Void Harvest
Space · Empire · turns 260–500
Boon

The deep-space collectors have found a rich seam in the void.

Corruption Scandal
Political · Planet · turns 35–500
Dilemma

A corruption inquiry has reached the heart of the planetary government.

Coverup Exposed
Political · Planet · turns 1–500
Bane

The corruption cover-up has been exposed.

Civil Service Reform
Political · Planet · turns 1–500
Boon

The public trial has produced a professional civil service.

Defection Out
Political · Empire · turns 120–500
Bane

An official has defected and taken state secrets abroad.

Defector Arrives
Political · Empire · turns 120–500
Boon

A rival official has arrived with research intelligence.

Diplomatic Incident
Political · Empire · turns 110–500
Dilemma

Something your people did abroad has become an international matter.

Trade Concession
Political · Empire · turns 120–500
Boon

A trade partner has granted a valuable commercial concession.

Amnesty Petition
Political · Planet · turns 60–500
Dilemma

Citizens petition for amnesty after occupation and unrest.

Border Incident
Political · Planet · turns 60–500
Dilemma

A patrol has met a rival's patrol, and neither of them backed off.