Fossil Hunting

Jamezorg

That giant skeleton in the Lost River has had me thinking for some time; what did that creature look like in life? Well, perhaps we won't know what that creature looked like. Back when it was alive the Lost River was probably open to the ocean via an enormous hole in the ceiling of the caves. But smaller prehistoric fish, however... What if, embedded in the walls of caves, and maybe sometimes even underground, were the fossilised remains of prehistoric fish of planet 4546B, waiting to be collected. If you see some of these fossils in the walls, I expect you should be able to just grab the and pluck them from the rock, but when they're underground you'll need a tool I like to call the extractor. It detects fossils underground, much like a scanner, and pulls them to the surface, not disturbing any of the rock around it like a terraformer would. With this idea comes three new machines to put into your base: the Analyser, the Revival Station and the Museum (this is more of a room). When you find all of the fossil fragments of one of these prehistoric animals, you put them all into the analyser and on a monitor it will show you what it looked like and the steps it took into evolving into it's modern day equivalent, for example a peeper with four eyes and two tails might then have two of its eyes and one of its tails get smaller, then smaller, then smaller until it becomes a modern day peeper. In the Revival Station you can revive a prehistoric animal and put it into your aquarium to add to your collection. Or, if you would rather not be an alien Frankenstein, you can put the fossils into your museum; a room the size of the moonpool, covered in glass cabinets for you to put your fossils on display.

This also includes fossilised plants