The following account was recorded in the agent's log during your transmission: Crusty, white salt deposits encase a series of twisted, copper pipelines, sprawling across the surface of a seemingly endless, dry salt flat like metallic intestines. Umm, the air's thick with the smell of ozone, and a heavy stillness presses down on me – like the sky itself is weighing me down. A colossal, ancient, Mesozoic-era tree, somehow preserved in crystalline perfection, pierces the flat earth like a colossal shard of splintered stone, its trunk surrounded by an ethereal halo of light... that seems to be repelling the surrounding salt, creating an unnatural clearing around it.