They found the Nucleus in a blasted crater where the old geothermal vent used to be.
“Nucleus is two klicks northeast,” crackled Tola, their grizzled miner, over the radio. His voice was tight. “I climbed the old comms tower. It’s… a tower itself. A spire of meat and bone. Veins running from it in every direction, pumping this… stuff out.” rimworld fleshmass nucleus
As the sun set over the corpse of the Nucleus, the colony’s survivors began the long, limping walk back to their rust-stained home. The fleshmass would wither. The ground would heal. And tomorrow, they would plant something new in the ash. They found the Nucleus in a blasted crater
“We can’t outrun it,” Tia said, standing. “The shuttle fuel is contaminated. The river is clogged with gill-growths. This whole valley is becoming one body.” “I climbed the old comms tower