Harmonic Echo...

The word echoed around my brain enough that I googled it out of fear of dying. Sure, I like to find things out myself, but this is a permadeath save. I know what I know, and what I don't know sometimes makes me afraid. I'm not a good horror game player as you can probably tell.

It could be as sweet as a strawberry or as sour as a lemon, but it looked to be on the safe side since the only result was a harmonic camp with a harmonic echo. It seemed as if it had no threats, so I decided to fly in its direction.

I called down my spacecraft, waiting a moment before resupplying my hazard protection again with the materials I had gathered on some of the planets; I found phosphorus to be great to replenish the shield when it was hot, plus I had plenty of it. The ash-shrouded planet was constantly hot, and had storms too which was unlike my starter planet or the barren one I encountered last time.

It's funny because I used to panic on seeing storms since that one time I landed on an extreme weather planet and got thrown around in a cave, nearly died, then got stuck against a wall plus ceiling and nearly fell to my death when the storm ended. Like, that made a huge difference and formed a rather ridiculous opinion (for me) of extreme weather planets. 

Why was I talking about that? Well, every hour or so it would give me a 'Wall Of Flame' storm. Sounds scary, doesn't it? I actually was terrified the first time I had it because I actually expected a wall of flame to appear.

Thanks to my shielding and phosphorus I was fine, except I started to notice I was beginning to run out of phosphorus. I would not be able to stay on the planet for the rest of the day unless I wanted to experience hyperthermia and die that way. Afterall, I used phosphorus to charge my heat shielding; I would last only two minutes without it and sodium.

But for now, I could continue. So, that's exactly what I did.

In the midst of flying towards the Harmonic Echo, I found an abandoned building. I went on to explore it and didn't get a lot, but at least it gave me some resources; even if it wasn't particularly useful at that moment.

I then explored a second building that appeared on my ship scanner. It was literally just a save point and trading terminal in the middle of nowhere, so I sold some random stuff and continued on again towards the Harmonic Echo.

It only took me another thirty seconds of flying to reach it. I landed and got out of my ship at the camp.

When I got out, the harmonic echo was pointing to a terminal. I opened it up, and it started saying random yet related words like 'glass'. A lot of sentinel related items are related to 'glass', but I don't know why.

It then gave me a riddle, which I was originally confused by until I worked out what it meant. There were three maths questions, each giving a certain number. That number was the number of the glyph used.

So if I had 16 - 8 I would put in glyph 8 for a certain slot. The slot number was determined by the order of maths equations given, meaning the top one was one and the bottom one was three.

The toughest part was remembering the numbers, but even that was easy. I ended up entering glyphs number fifteen, nine and fifteen.

That did the trick, and nothing bad happened. It then gave me an option to get a NEW sentinel multitool, which I did and it also gave me the option to scan the surrounding area. It let me do both in the end so I was pleased.

And by scanning the surrounding area, it showed me the location of something new... and somewhat scary looking. It was called A Dissonant Spike.201Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1rxYWhyqs5

I immediately thought it was bad so I decided to fly overhead. And that was the best choice I had made in a while.

I reached the site and found a crashed sentinel ship.

I landed down, bewildered. It then required me to repair it by removing stuff, including a Hyaline Brain. I didn't even realise I picked it up or needed it until it asked me to get a Harmonic Brain. I got the Harmonic Brain by going to a monolith and inserting the Hyaline Brain.

In return, I got what I needed and flew back. I inserted the brain since that was the last thing I needed to have to complete the repairs.201Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRBDsrWAQQv

The interceptor ship was mine. Once forged by fire, now reclaimed by my current iteration.