It took four weeks to fly from Earth to Agartha, which was a forested planet. Arriving in orbit, Flurry scanned the environment and determined that this planet would be tricky to chart out. The atmosphere was poisonous and the trees were too close together to make a landing with the excursion shuttle. The team, which consisted of Silverstream, Gallus, and Ocellus, would have to be teleported down to the surface and then beamed back up once they were finished.
After getting into their space suits, the team stood in position on the transporter pads and Smolder energized the field that would send them to a small clearing on the planet below. After reaching the ground, they took a closer examination and concluded that the atmosphere was filled with heavy concentrations of cyanide, sulfur dioxide, ozone, and chlorine. They also had three speeder bikes sent down so they could map out the planet as fast as possible, because they had only a week’s worth of oxygen in their air tanks.
“Let’s split up. That way we can map out the planet faster.”, said Gallus.
“Good idea.”, said Ocellus.
After getting on their speeders, they split off in three different directions. The Agarthans were very friendly and provided samples from the different trees on their planet for the crew to study. There were regular trees similar to what grew on Equus, but there were also some trees where the wood was much harder and stronger. The hardest wood from the trees was as hard as diamonds and could only be cut with a diamond-dusted blade, whereas other types of the wood were like metal and could only be cut with either a plasma cutter or a water-jet cutter, which used a powerful stream of water and an abrasive powder.
The three crew members were in awe when they saw this, and they gladly accepted the samples for research. Luckily, the crew members ended up using less than half of their oxygen by the time they were finished and had regrouped in the clearing to be transported back up to the Alicorn. After putting the wood samples in storage and logging the information about the planet in the ship’s computers, the crew set their course for the final planet on their route.