Testing Station 152

The electromagnetic reading of the Coriolis storm is exceptionally high in this location.

Testing Station 152 is an Overland Dungeon, featuring a unique boss fight, and can be completed solo or in a party. Overall difficulty is also scalable, allowing for increased challenge and rewards granted upon completion.

Details

<Talk about the theme of the station, i.e. environmental hazard, etc.>

Recorded Dialogue

Solido Projection

SOLIDO PROJECTION: Greetings authorized visitor. If you have reached this point, it means you have passed our checkpoints and satisfied all security protocols. I am therefore authorized to tell you this is Imperial Testing Station No. 152. A station dedicated to researching new, hyper-efficient forms of power generation and storage. I am excited to tell you we here at TS 152 are on the verge of an exciting breakthrough that will have profound repercussions for all humankind. For our goal is nothing less than harnessing the awe-inspiring power of Arrakis' mighty Coriolis storms!

Shigawire Recordings

ANCIENT SCIENTIST: Well... the storm has passed at last! And it certainly seems as if we achieved effective power generation, but the question of just how effective remains. We'll have our answer as soon as we check the core output. Ahh, here we are, the moment of truth. READY EVERYONE!? Let's see... Yes... YES! HA! All batteries charged to full capacity! Retention at 100%! HA! We've DONE it! We've really done it! We've harnessed the storm! Haha! Congratulations everyone! We have our proof of concept! Next step: an exponential increase in the core's size and capacity!

ANCIENT SCIENTIST: Our new Mark 8 core is ready to come online with the next Coriolis storm. I'm fully confident we will succeed in achieving full capture and retention of the storm's power. At this rate we will soon be able to build a core capable of capturing enough energy to power a low-population world, like Arrakis, for a century or more by tapping the energy of a single storm! Ha! Lo! We are like the weather gods of ancient myth. The power of the storm is ours to command! Hahaha!

SKEPTICAL SCIENTIST: I'm afraid I've become unpopular around here. Everyone else is positively giddy with our success so far, and I seem to be the only voice urging caution. They've taken to calling me Doctor Downer. I just keep hearing the words of my first-year planetology instructor: "The freaks of cyclonic storms are the rules of cyclonic storms." There are just too many variables in a Coriolis storm — especially with the furious strength of those on Arrakis. With winds reaching up to 700 kilometers an hour its... Well, this is just not the place to try to catch lightning in a bottle.

OLEG TAKULKI: Our investigation of Testing Station 152 has proven spectacularly fruitful. What was achieved here is extraordinary. Nearly limitless power generation! Yet, the ancient researches may have taken their experiments too far. It seems they inadvertently flooded the entire facility with thousands of watts of electricity. The entire team perished in an instant, and the project never restarted. I'm certain we can duplicate this technology. This may be just the advantage we need to facilitate a meteoric rise in the fortunes of House— Wait—what's that? Damn! Someone else found their way into the lab. We can't afford interference! I'll have to eliminate them.

Boss Fight

PLANETOLOGIST TAKULKI