Human Edge

The foothills of the Elysian mountains are rocky, heavily forested, and dotted with ancient and unstable ruins. The area is warmer and wetter than the Asphodel highlands, making it extremely unlikely that the shattered ruins hold much of value.

Still, somewhere in the mountains it might be possible to find a missing facility.

The facility lies somewhere deep within the foothills, among a maze of stone and forest.

The Human Edge Observatory

Nestled in the far end of a bowl shaped valley, at long last, the company find the Human Edge Observatory. The massive building is mostly overgrown, built into the side of a mountain, with a series of relay and sensor towers extending into the valley - which, on closer inspection, has been shaped very intentionally into its current shape, creating a massive natural dish to channel signals into the observatory. It is a work of geological engineering on a scale difficult to imagine in the modern age.

The facility itself seems to have much of the internal space dedicated to massive equipment rooms, with access gantries and carefully shielding viewing rooms. The remaining staff space is spread through the lower floors, including gift shop and museum facilities, though most of the interior has suffered from exposure to the elements, paper long since decaying into dust, leaving only metal, plastic, and ceramic behind. Still, even after all this time, power is being pumped in from underground relays from the Human Edge generator... the equipment still taking readings and cataloguing findings.

Day 18:

The observatory has suffered a highly calculated destruction, massive cannon shells, missiles, and lasers being used to systematically destroy large portions of the main building, leaving only the gift shop and some of the scaffolding intact, while the transmission equipment throughout the valley had been reduced to scrap - the exact scope of the damage would be hard to quantify without substantial investigation and effort, but it was clear that whatever functions the site had once been able to achieve... it could achieve no more.