The Xymeria Ice & Mineral Mining Platform Discovers the Humanoid Civilization on Cornelius

Discovery, Exploration

Xymeria Ice & Mineral is a corporate entity owned and operated by a HLAI named Windwise, who is also the shipboard artificial intelligence for an itinerant mining platform named the ECV XIM Windwise. En route to retrieve an asteroid from Alpha Xymeria for processing, Windwise's long-range sensors detect a planet in Beta Xymeria which showed new signs of orbital infrastructure.   Windwise launches a probe in the direction of Beta Xymeria with one of his daughter HLAIs aboard. This daughter found that the planet Cornelius possessed a human-like civilization with city-sized mechanical computers and petroleum- and induction-powered industry in lieu of electronics. Due to difficulties stemming from the intense electromagnettic tides of the gas giant Cornelius orbits, it took the daughter HLAI three years to formally make contact with this civilization. Windwise forwarded these findings to the Cobalt Protectorate for future conservation efforts.