Editing Turing (section)

==== Operation Impending Gloom ====
On the 25th of January, 2185, the brilliant scientists stationed at the Xenoentomology Center on Turing would report a new major discovery, one with huge implications for the future of citizen prosperity and Managed Democracy itself. Recent experimentation on [[Terminids]] using collected Gloom spores indicated that Gloom-induced mutations may dramatically increase Element 710-yield. In lab conditions, some specimens yielded up to 10x more E-710 compared to the control group.

The implications of this result are monumental as the Gloom may represent a vast, untapped source of new energy. It's exploitation could enable FTL travel beyond military and colony settlement operations-expanding to trade and research sectors, as well as to more military and colony settlement operations. Of course, many challenges must be overcome to realize this potential future. These early results had to be substantiated and verified, and the Gloom itself remains impenetrable to all observation or travel within. Therefore, development of Gloom-resistant technology is now a top-level priority.

The Xenoentomology Center would be directed to halt all other research projects and focus on this singular field. The Helldivers meanwhile were directed to support these efforts by collecting as many scientific samples as possible from Gloom-adjacent Terminid planets. However having learned from the counterfeit samples debacle, new detection measures had been put in place and strengthened since such samples were received the last time the Ministry of Science made such a request. It is anticipated that such measures should be sufficient to prevent history from repeating.

Indeed, the Helldivers quickly proven themselves specimen retrieval experts and stalwart allies of scientific progress, in addition to Democracy's most elite defenders by retrieving the required samples several days of ahead of schedule AND putting down a [[Terminid]] outbreak on [[Fenrir III]]. After innumerable scientific expeditions, the Xenoentomology Center has more than enough Terminid specimens to progress development on Gloom-resistant technology.

Almost immediately, the samples collected by the Helldivers allowed the Xenobiologists to achieve promising results. Gloom-like environments could now be artificially created in laboratory conditions, allowing testing of filtration systems and spore-resistant materials. Extremely low frequency (ELF) electromagnetic waves in particular have proven effective at penetrating dense Gloom, and may enable orbit-to-ground communication and long-range radar astronomy. Much work remains, but thanks to the Helldivers, the first expeditions into the Gloom -- as well as the subsequent acquisition of its potentially vast E-710 reserves -- may soon be within reach.