UV SCAN
CLASSIFIED

EXPEDITION LOG: TRITON

PROPERTY OF:

Dr. Aris Thorne

DO NOT RETURN TO BASE
TAP RIGHT ARROW TO OPEN
THEY LIED
IT WAS ALREADY HERE
ENTRY: 001 LOC: TRITON SECTOR 4

Initial Discovery

Date: 2142.10.14

We found something in the deep ice. Or rather, it found us. Standard planetary scans showed only nitrogen and methane crusts. But the seismographs picked up rhythmic sub-surface anomalies.

I am classifying it provisionally as Glacies venator neptunius. The drill crew just calls it "The Frostbite". It is not a microbe. It is macro-fauna. And it is aggressive.

Footprint approx 1.2 meters wide
Three men gone. No bodies. Just empty suits.
DO NOT GO OUTSIDE
ENTRY: 004
Habitat
Surface crust. Looks safe. It isn't.

It doesn't survive the cold; it weaponizes it. The creature burrows through solid nitrogen ice using a combination of acidic secretions and sheer mechanical force from a heavily armored, shattered-ice carapace.

Anatomy Sketch
Multiple limbs for rapid excavation.
They see thermal heat. Our suits are beacons.

Hunting Behavior

It is an ambush predator. It lies dormant just beneath the smooth blue ice of the plains. It waits for the vibrations of larger fauna—or in our case, rovers. When the target passes directly overhead, the ice simply... shatters.

Encounter
Rover 3 wreckage. Found in crater.
ATTACHED FILE: LOG_04_DISTRESS.WAV
PLAY_LOG
Can you hear it scraping?
The Comms are down.
Don't trust the blue ice.
If the ground looks perfectly smooth... RUN.

END OF RECOVERED LOG.

I think they are in the vents.
LOOK BEHIND YOU