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*The asteroid has noticeable equipment buried several meters deep on the side closest to the planet itself*
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Hey, this might be something.
*Leaps with extremely light bounds toward the part of the ground above where they lie, watching as the ground itself that buries the equipment is rapidly evaporating and ejecting as gas particles off into the void of space*