Initial impact damage is your starting point. Most materials will survive as there is no water to make your treasures interact. Sand desert (covered by sand due to wind, less common that rock desert by far!).The environment itself is significant because of that. To survive for millennia you need materials that do not, or very slowly, interact with their environment. The power supply failure might even lead to the discovery of the ship due to explosion or radiation spike from venting its remaining fuel. The ultimate failure of the power supply could occur relatively recently so that the area immediately adjacent to the core is left in near pristine condition while the extremities have completely eroded away. This has the benefit of leaving those that discover the ship remains with the mystery of an oddly decomposed corpse. This continues until the time dampening field shrinks to the point of excluding the power plant so that it finally succumbs cutting off the FTL core power and the remaining field suddenly fails. The net result is a field that is slowly diminishing in size leaving the parts of the ship further from the core effectively exposed to the ravages of time longer than those closer. The ship power plant, or power transmission was crippled so that it could not fully supply the FTL with the power it needs to maintain full field strength. The FTL core was not properly shut down and has still been generating the field.Ģ. As part of normal operations the FTL core envelopes the entire ship in a time-dampening field.ġ. You can also take location into account when answering the main question.Ī non-Answer Answer: Avoid the question entirely.įTL is essentially time travel, it must work in a way that disrupts time. Bonus points if you can tell how deep it'll be buried. I'm looking for biomes in general, not specific world locations. The ship is the size of an attack submarine. The burial can take anywhere between years, but it has to be completely buried. Where should the ship crash in order to be buried? If your answer is none, then what kind of materials would survive the longest, and for how long? I'm looking for a few types of materials that could be reasonably used in complex machinery/electronics. We'll limit to materials that exist on Earth, or materials that can be manufactured using materials that exist on Earth. We assume nothing was destroyed by the impact, however since then a lot of stuff has stopped functioning. What kind of materials could survive for that long unattended? They were in a good enough condition that they were taken apart, studied and copied but not in a good enough condition to be working. There are in one piece, give or take a few bumps. Then the thingy degraded, so it couldn't have protected the ship for very long.Īre the devices functional? Not really. The ship was engulfed in that, which allowed it to survive entry and the crash. How did the ship survive the crash? By using some sort of foam-airbag-thingy. You feed that core some electricity and a signal, and then it does stuff based on the signal. How are these devices functioning in the first place? Unspecified Advanced Alien Technology™. What matters is that they survived against the elements. They may be encased in a box, they may be made of indestructibium, whatever. Those are the only two things that need to survive. These artifact are: a FTL drive core and an artificial gravity generator core. About four thousand years later, humans found that crash site, and found a few artifacts that they managed to reverse-engineer. The crew had to evacuate, and the ship kind of crashed on a random planet. They are the creators of Unspecified Advanced Alien Technology™.
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