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Venus Orbit

An extremely classified project is being under taken. Two cloaked Tartan-class frigates are escorting a Spacebound-class Auxiliary, also cloaked, over a volcanically less active region of Venus. From the bottom of the auxiliary, three probes are dropped to the Venusian surface. The probes deploy their parachutes halfway through the atmosphere to slow their fall.

The probes are covered in a thick layer of metal, designed to allow them to survive in the Venusian surface for at least a day.

Upon landing, the probes anchor themselves to the surface, and go to work. The instruments inside the probes begin testing the soil and air composition, and send the data back to the ships in orbit. Once those tests are complete, the probes begin drilling core samples of the Venusian surface, up to a kilometer deep. Once the core samples are gathered, they are analyzed by the probes, and the results are sent to the ships. Afterwards, the probes will test the acidity of the atmosphere by timing how long it takes before they are disintegrated.