Old Bones

Old Bones is a Mission Item used in the Campaign Mission Field Research Part 3. The Mission requires the Prospector to visit the Fossil Area East Caverns at East Caverns on Bright Sands and collect 3 Old Bones items.

See their location on the, as well as on the image below.

Description
Belonging to a long dead creature, damage has exposed metalic elements that seemed to have formed after death.

Story
In Field Research Osiris has the Prospector investigate some mysteries on Fortuna III. One of those came from some old notes from before the Storm started. The notes state that some unique bone samples were found at the Fossil Area. The notes also state that the bone samples were distinctly mutilated. This is seen by the almost metal-like parts of the bones, which seem to have been created after death. In Field Research Part 9, Osiris sends the Prospector to the Extinct Creatures Lab to investigate there, where a Warden Tooth with a similar mutilation is found. It is suggested that Fortuna III's strange past is the source of these mutilations, as the Warden Tooth has strange geometric shapes similar to what is found all over Tharis Island. The Progenitors terraformed the planet to their liking, and it is possible this terraforming left some strange unnatural processes behind, such as the strange metal forming in the bones after the creatures death.