Alien Tablets (Disambiguation)

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Alien Tablets are items required to access Alien Bases and other alien structures.

The Tablets are flat metal objects featuring various holes and attachments on the outer edges, with a large alien symbol visible in the middle of the object.

Purple Tablet

The Purple Tablet is usually the first Tablet to be found, and is very frequently used in a number of locations. There are currently eight found in the game. The Quarantine Enforcement Platform requires three to unlock the upper entrance, the anti-gravity elevator, and the control room. The three Tablets needed to unlock these doors can be found onsite; two on Mountain Island, and one inside the facility in the room before the deactivation terminal. A fourth can be found in the Degasi Seabase on the Floating Island. The rest can be found in Mountain Island's Caves. After scanning the broken Tablet in front of the Quarantine Enforcement Platform's land entrance, the player can craft Purple Tablets at the Fabricator using an Ion Cube and two Diamonds.

The Purple Tablet can be used optionally to access the Dunes, Sparse Reef and the Blood Kelp Zone Alien Caches. It is also used to unlock certain doors in the Alien Thermal Plant and Disease Research Facility.

Data Bank Entry

This carbon-based device is lighter than it looks, and features a symbol which resembles a 'U', lit up in purple. Despite the onboard power still functioning, algae growth on the exterior indicates it was abandoned hundreds, perhaps thousands of years ago. While the technology is far beyond federation levels, and there is no obvious way to interface with it, it should nonetheless be possible to fabricate a precise physical copy of the device, if necessary.

Orange Tablet

The Orange Artifact can be found in the Deep Grand Reef Degasi Seabase on a desk, and is presumed to be what Marguerit Maida had discovered, as shown in this log. This Tablet is exclusively used to access the Lost River Laboratory. The Orange Tablet is craftable, but only one terminal uses the artifact.

Data Bank Entry


This device hums slightly, and displays an orange-lit symbol resembling an 'n'.

Blue Tablet

The Blue Tablet can be found in the Precursor Thermal Power Generator, and is used to access the Primary Containment Facility. One Tablet is needed to gain entrance to the facility, and a second one is used to unlock the Moonpool room. However, only one Tablet is available for pickup from the Alien Thermal Plant. It is craftable after the player either picks this Tablet up, or scans it.

Data Bank Entry


Smooth and cold, with a blue light which illuminates an alien symbol resembling an upper case 'H'. While it is likely these devices served in part as security clearance for whoever constructed them, their size suggests some additional purpose, such as personal computers. Whatever the case, the technology is far beyond humanity's own.

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A Purple Tablet in the Quarantine Enforcement Platform
The Purple Tablet just above the Quarantine Enforcement Platform on Mountain Island
Another of the eight Purple Tablet on Mountain Island at night
The broken Purple Tablet Fragment
The Orange Tablet found in the Deep Grand Reef Degasi Seabase
The Blue Artifact in the Precursor Thermal Power Generator
The Purple Tablet
The Orange Tablet
The Blue Tablet
All five Tablets grouped on the floor