Template:Obelisk Analysis

Like all obelisks, the pawn studying and suppressing the Obelisk Analysis should be the pawn intended to receive its effect, not necessarily the main researcher. This is to take advantage of the random interaction effect when suppressing or studying.

Counterintuitively, nether the intellectual skill, the entity study rate, nor the research speed significantly affect on the speed of dark study of the obelisk due to the 2-day cooldown. The only things that affect this speed is the study efficiency, how quickly you study after the cooldown expires, and the obelisk's activity level. This means the best possible, but very risky, study speed for the obelisk is to study it at 99% activity level, suppress it down to 59%, and come back exactly 2 days later to study it again at 99%. This method gives 2 advanced/day research points, before the effect of the studying pawn's study efficiency and the AI storyteller's Study efficiency setting which varies by difficulty.

Once 2 points of research have been earned from an obelisk a event notification will be triggered with following the flavor text:

"Investigation of the obelisk has revealed some information. It is an archotechnological device that seems to interact with organic creatures at a distance. It is probably a piece of a much larger archotech structure that was destroyed or broken apart long ago. The machinery at its core is inhumanly complex and frighteningly powerful. Its purpose and method of action remain totally mysterious.
If not suppressed, its activity level will increase over time. You can't tell what will happen when the device fully activates."