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==Beneath the Ice (749-752M83)==
After years of struggling to survive the tundra wastes, the real issues were nowhere closer to be solved. Fresh water might have been plenty, by melting and purifying the ice, but food production from the hydroponic ship farms was steadily declining, and the heat provided by the fuel cells of the ships was beginning to ebb out. SOS signals and transmissions detailing their predicament had been sent every day since the incident with the linguistical cogitator, but still no reply came, and there was no indication of the signals even piercing the atmosphere. Morale was dropping, and something had to be done. The situation declined steadily for decades, and the impromptu human society stagnated and fell almost into ruin. Isolated from the Imperium decree, it was only by the iron will of the Space Marines that the people did not revert into primality.

By chance, one of the mindless servitors repurposed for mining ice found evidence of an underground complex beneath the mountain. Subterranean structural scans were conducted, and an image of a vast, ancient city began to form on the monitors. There was as good as chance as any to find food and fuel down there, seeing as the frozen tundra offered nothing but hypothermia. It was around 749M38 that the first expedition to find an entrance to the ruins below was sent out, and after many months of journey and precision mapping of the cavernous systems, an entrance was found. A massive door beckoned them to enter, cast in an alien silvery material, standing over 100 feet wide and 40 feet tall. As the scouts returnd, the mass emigration process was already in progress, people abandoning their makeshift lifes in a hurry, and preparing to decouple city ships from one another, and strip the vessels down to nut and bolt.