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Kaniros wrote:

With all the technology found in this place, pointing to the same hostile species they had encountered earlier, Visai decided he should up their defense systems. He'd been planning on it already, but now with his mind focused on the existence of enemy forces that might be able to fight on par with them, he realized that something was needed to give them an edge over such a threat.
The problem lay not in the technology itself, since there were many new developments available to them, but rather in how best to implement it and where to put it. The current layout was still functional, and if nothing else, it would serve as a temporary solution until more permanent changes could be made. That meant going through the process of adding in the necessary components for each system, which wasn't exactly simple.

He sat down in the control chair and glanced at the schematics, taking note of what was missing from the plan, he had the information on each team on the planet on the other side, just in case his attention was needed. Meanwhile, he had a few more ships leave the hangar to establish a perimeter.

The Admiral, Aladia, seemingly having tracked down the source of the distress signal she received, took a direct approach to it.
She had the shuttle's pilot land not too far from the source signal. The shuttle landed with barely a thump, and the hatch opened, a beam of light extended to form a tangible ramp. And Aladia walked down flanked by a few of her own soldiers, mostly robotic. She herself was clad in a form-fitting black uniform, but with the enviro-field generator still keeping her safe from any foreign bacteria or viruses.

She ordered her troops to fan out and comb the area.

The recon teams took pictures of the city and recorded the movements of their structures, they didn't have any other orders from Visai, so they only continued their investigation as ordered. They were not to take any risks that would put them in danger.
As the sun began to rise on the horizon, the first rays of light began to illuminate the buildings. The team leaders watched carefully through their scopes for signs of movement or anything improper.

Visai was still looking over the plans when some new information was available, he turned his head to another hologram. The debris on the planet had most likely come from the same debris in space, he tapped a few buttons in an attempt to calculate the trajectory of the debris, the rate of movement of both it and the moons and planets as well as their gravitational pull.

With all this, Visai was attempting to use the systems of the dreadnought to find out what had caused the debris field.

The Tomb

From the depths of the evaporating sea of mist, the stairs that lead to the summit of the tomb would suddenly emerge before Aladia. Her shuttle’s ramp leading straight to it as they soon made contact with the ground. The echos of the clanking metal creating a deafening silence that followed it as a shift in the air could be felt amongst all there. As if something once wrong was suddenly realized, acknowledged, for the first time in ages.

The very view from this high up, astounding as there was nothing but this sole structure for miles all around as it laid in the dead center of this massive crater. Mist all around them like clouds. Slowly they would evaporate back to the skies it all once came down from. As the gentle morning light fell upon it all. Delicately caressing Aladia’s cheek it felt warm to all who could feel it. A sense of peace suddenly coming over everyone who witnessed it.

The Riders of the king soon followed as they would finally arrive to the very beginning of the stairs of the tomb. Taking just mere moments to collect themselves before instructing their chocobos to rush to the summit of the tomb. They’re respirators releasing the refined mist exhaust that would trail behind them. The leader would use his scanner’s lens to zoom in on the position of the aliens. He couldn’t believe his eyes when he would see it. After all these ages. Someone finally came. To his astonishment, a woman… was she ? Could it be ? He forced his chocobo to run even faster at the realization. His men close behind.

Aladia was now just a single step from reaching the stone stairs of the tomb. Before her she could now see that statues lined each side of the staircase and would lead all the way down and under the mist. And these monuments, were made in the very image of her people. Auldrans. Great legends she’s never once heard of before now standing true in her presence. Many of the statues half ruined, their names forever forgotten now. And at the very top of the stairs, the looming tomb was just meters from her grasp. The entrance, sealed by nothing but a massive stone wall which had been engraved with ancient sigils of a faith now lost. Above it, the lone and half crumbled emblem of the crescent of the old House of this world still hanging on as a final testament of time. The crescent of House Hypatia.

Walking Cities -

Within moments, the massive structures would begin to move through the sand. Slowly accelerating pace by pace as it appeared to swim through the thick, slippery desert sands. All across the surface, settlements from all over would begin their mass migrations to the north. To return to the great city of Irdyn.

Astonishingly organized and efficient were the lines that formed that lead the migrations. But the under the surface of their shelters, it was no easy task to achieve such a feat that would be the moving of entire cities hundreds of km.

The sun now finally present over the world. The remaining mist being absorbed by the environment itself.

Visai’s Inquiry

No matter how Visai would come to input the collected data to plausible calculations, all it would ever return would be an inconclusive result. Nothing that could concretely explain what could have caused this sight. More and more data began to be complied as he continued. Suddenly, an unlikely scenario became the central theory of the reconstruction of the seen. A like assault from the surface itself.

I’m fact, there were clear signs in the path of destruction that whatever occurred here happened within a relatively short time frame. In the realm of possibility that it did so in a single night. A sudden unseen assault that quickly overwhelmed the local forces. All semblance of control lost as entire buildings and city blocks lay in ruin. And the victim of this carnage, the Lunaelysian Empire. It was their technology that littered here. They suffered here. But at the hands of what ? The Nisse ?

Further across the surface, data began to compile on the vast amount of discovered sights that resembled a form of possible enslavement camps. Evidence suggesting that there was an interest in burying these areas.