Alien Tablets (Disambiguation)

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

The artifacts are very odd in appearance. They are quite large and are similar to an SD card in shape, and they feature various holes and attachments.

All four Alien Tablets can be obtained by typing precursorkeys and can also be acquired separately by typing item precursorkey_[colour] into the console. The Tablets each occupy a single inventory slot.

The Red Tablet currently has no use and will most likely go unused in the future.

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'. These tablets appear to be rarer than the others, perhaps indicating a higher level of security clearance.

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 clear these devices served in part as security clearance for the aliens who built them, their size suggests some additional purpose, such as personal computers. Whatever the case, the technology is far beyond humanity's own.

Recipe

Gallery

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  A Purple Tablet in the Quarantine Enforcement Platform

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  The Purple Tablet just above the Quarantine Enforcement Platform on Mountain Island

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  Another of the eight Purple Tablet on Mountain Island at night

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  The broken Purple Tablet Fragment

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  The Orange Tablet found in the Deep Grand Reef Degasi Seabase

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  The Blue Artifact in the Precursor Thermal Power Generator

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  The Purple Tablet

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  The Orange Tablet

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  The Blue Tablet

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  All five Tablets grouped on the floor

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  The Red Tablet

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  The White Tablet

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  The Red Tablet icon

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  The White Tablet icon

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  Red Tablet symbol

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  White Tablet symbol

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Trivia

• When first added, the Purple, Red, Blue, White and Orange Tablet took up four (2x2) inventory slots. Later it was changed that all of them but Blue took up one (1x1) space. It was then changed again where the Blue Artifact took up 1 (1x1) while the White Tablet took up four (2x2) inventory slot.
• There used to be a fifth (White) Tablet, but it has been removed from the game.