章 1096: 1096 The Big Dig

With the crews on the ground, all attention turned away from the interviews to showing the ongoing deployment of the research equipment. From the ground, the raised ridges of the Prairie City were much more noticeable, and Max was certain that they could not have occurred naturally.

While the sensors showed that there were portions up to four metres tall, it was only when they got the camera footage from the team on the ground that most of the observers on Terminus really appreciated how much of the ancient city had been preserved.

The team quickly got to work, cutting away some of the overgrowth, as it appeared that the city itself wasn't buried, only overgrown, which had made orbital scanning somewhat unreliable. Using a low intensity Ion Beam, they cut away the vines that were hanging down from the top of a cliff face in front of them, then used the cutter's gravity beam to pull the foliage away.