Talk:Precursors/@comment-47.208.20.248-20160812215511/@comment-107.223.130.147-20160825061135

The Degasi logs from the pink shroom caves suggest that merc tagging along with Bart and his dad pushed them to head deeper. She told them that staying ont he island was a death sentence, becasue the storms they got slammed with were destroying their base and food supply. She scouted the shroom caves, and they built a base there with all the lithium. Bart's dad (or Bart) figured when they got saved they would start a lithim mining operation and be rich. The merc talked them into going deeper, because she knew that whatever knocked them out of the sky wouldn't let them off the planet (and would also just keep knocking other ships out of the sky, too... so rescue was pointless). Her idea was that whatever was behind the operations of the planet was submerged deeper. So, one log says they were going to build a base "1km to the east of their (shroom cave location) and 500m below sea level".

The problem is, from where their base is in the shroom caves, going 1km east would put them pretty much right under the Aurora. (Per the in-game compass, The Aurora's engine cluster points south... sitting above the cave that goes to the shroom where the Degasi base is, facing east, you look right at the Aurora).

If you wander around the shroom caves a bit, you end up in some lava. But, I don't think this transitions into lava zone. So, I'm not sure if they came up and out of the shroom cave to move on, or if they pushed deeper into the shroom cave and found something deeper.

500m in the Grand Reef is usually that massive cave in Grand Reef that has an entrance to Lost River. There may end up being an outpost base there that acts as a "gate" to get into the Lost River.