| Here's a little background info for the science challenged.
Lake Vostok is real. It's a liquid water lake under Antarctica's ice sheet that's been sealed off from the rest of the planet for a
bazillion years or so. It's protected by over 13,000 feet of solid ice.
Or at least it was. Although this is a Russian research station, scientists from all over the world conduct research here.
One of the primary projects at this site, a coordinated Russian, French, and American effort, is drilling an ice core through the 3,700 m thick ice sheet. This ice core contains climate records for almost half a million years before the present
day. In 2008 drilling was halted about 300 feet short of actually
piercing the ice sheet due to concerns about contaminating the underground hydrosphere with nasty bugs from our world or
lubricants/debris from the drilling process itself. Or so we were told.
UPDATE: SPRING
2057:
Monsterbabe Central has learned that drilling was secretly
restarted by Dr. Olga Belova in direct violation of international agreements earlier this year.
What she brought up from Vostok was... unexpected.
And that's where our story begins.
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