Phoenix Logs/The Ark/Amber Refugia


 * A translucent amber-like material covers much of the terrain in this unforgiving
 * Refugia. Petrified rivers and lakes form vast, planar surfaces which are only
 * broken by the angular, jutting rock formations that puncture the surface.


 * Fractures that have splintered into deep chasms reveal the complex Forerunner
 * infrastructure below, and geometrical veins from these underlying structures
 * can be seen striping the upper layers. In places the strong but brittle amber has
 * sheared and degraded into sand, which is then whipped up and sculpted by the
 * wind into dune seas where life struggles to take root.


 * What life can survive here is extremely alien; huge and bizarre flora spring up
 * through cracks in the rocks, swaying in the breeze and belching spores into the
 * atmosphere if disturbed.