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///UAC///

The UAC ships arrive through Vent Gamma and meet with the AIF.

///ANF///

The ship finds that the red glow is a geothermal vent; a crack in the seabed to deeper near the planet's core. It is very hot, and water boils near it. The ANF crews decide that melting their drill would be a bad idea and opt not to touch it. It could be a valuable energy source if a proper facility was constructed on it, however.

///Israeli Navy///

The IN vessels have an uneventful arrival, and begin setting up a base camp near a large pillar of rock. The water here is deep, and there are no other stone pillars nearby connecting the ceiling to the seabed. Beside the pillar at it's edge, Vent Beta casts an eighty kilometre circle of light into the darkness of Tenelapis' ocean. From above, somewhere in the vent's walls, there is the sound of tons of rock shifting and a deluge of stone fragments falls from above, landing in the water near the ships. There is a loud, echoing screech, followed by a massive chunk of stone breaking off from the vent wall and some loud rumbling. The rumbling gets progressively quieter over the space of a few minutes, and then the rock stops falling and silence returns.