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Relics of the first landings and of older things. Donate them to the Archive; Amara pays attention.
| Item | Description | Sells for |
|---|---|---|
 Ancestor Mask | A mask of beaten gold-coloured metal with a calm, wide face. Amara would love this for the Archive. | 960 bm |
 Bead Necklace | Teal beads on a cord that has turned to dust and been restrung by Amara. Amara would love this for the Archive. | 540 bm |
 Beagle 2 Solar Petal | A solar petal from the British lander that landed in 2003 but never unfolded fully. Amara would love this for the Archive. | 540 bm |
 Carved Bowl | A bowl carved from one block of dark stone, polished by hands. Amara would love this for the Archive. | 540 bm |
 Carved Tile | A floor tile with a spiral cut into it. The dome's builders found a whole floor of them. Amara would love this for the Archive. | 240 bm |
 Clay Figurine | A small figure with too many arms, made by a child's hands. Amara would love this for the Archive. | 540 bm |
 Clay Pot | A pot of red Martian clay, fired hard. Bea's crew found it digging the dome's footings. Amara would love this for the Archive. | 240 bm |
 Comb | A comb carved from something like bone. A few teeth missing. Amara would love this for the Archive. | 240 bm |
 Conduit Coil | Copper-coloured wire wound so fine you can't see the turns. Amara would love this for the Archive. | 540 bm |
 Conduit Pipe | A length of pipe with a coating that hasn't corroded. It carried water. Amara would love this for the Archive. | 540 bm |
 Cooking Stone | A flat stone blackened on one side. Someone's hearth. Amara would love this for the Archive. | 240 bm |
 Crown Fragment | A curved band of gold metal set with seven green stones. Amara would love this for the Archive. | 1,500 bm |
 Curiosity Wheel Tread | Aluminium tread from Curiosity. The holes spell 'JPL' in Morse code. Amara would love this for the Archive. | 960 bm |
 Data Prism | Light goes in one face and comes out another as writing. Amara would love this for the Archive. | 1,500 bm |
 Dead Power Cell | A sealed cell of some green glassy stuff. It hums if you hold it to your ear. Amara would love this for the Archive. | 540 bm |
 Door Seal | A round plate covered in glyphs, with a handprint in the middle. It came out of the ground under the dome. Amara thinks it's a key. Amara would love this for the Archive. | 1,500 bm |
 Drone Shell | The empty husk of something small that flew. Amara would love this for the Archive. | 960 bm |
 Fossil Microbe Mat | Wrinkled, fossilised slime. Amara cried when she saw the first one. Amara would love this for the Archive. | 960 bm |
 Game Board | A carved board of hexes. Hana and Kaito have already made up rules for it. Amara would love this for the Archive. | 540 bm |
 Game Pieces | Little carved stones that go with something. Count them: thirteen. Amara would love this for the Archive. | 540 bm |
 Glazed Cup | A cup with a blue glaze and a thumb-dent worn into the side. Amara would love this for the Archive. | 240 bm |
 Glyph Cylinder | Roll it in clay and it prints a line of glyphs. A seal? A book? Amara would love this for the Archive. | 960 bm |
 Glyph Tablet | A tablet of rows and rows of little marks. Writing. Amara would love this for the Archive. | 540 bm |
 Gravity Token | A flat stone that's heavier on one side, whichever way up you hold it. Amara would love this for the Archive. | 1,500 bm |
 Hair Pin | A long pin with a spiral head. Amara would love this for the Archive. | 240 bm |
 Heart of Mars | A crystal that pulses with a slow red light, found at the very bottom of the Abyss. It's warm. Amara would love this for the Archive. | 1,500 bm |
 Hesperian Frond Print | The print of something leaf-like from three billion years ago. Impossible. And yet. Amara would love this for the Archive. | 1,500 bm |
 Hull Flake | Not from our ships. The alloy doesn't match anything on Earth. Amara would love this for the Archive. | 240 bm |
 InSight Mole Tip | The heat probe that tried to dig five metres down and got stuck. You feel its pain. Amara would love this for the Archive. | 960 bm |
 Ingenuity Rotor Blade | A carbon-fibre blade from Ingenuity, the first aircraft to fly on another world. Amara would love this for the Archive. | 1,500 bm |
 Keystone | The wedge from the top of an arch. Somewhere there was an arch. Amara would love this for the Archive. | 540 bm |
 Lattice Core | A cube of interlocking rods that shouldn't fit together, but do. Amara would love this for the Archive. | 960 bm |
 Light Shard | A sliver of crystal that stores sunlight and gives it back at night. Amara would love this for the Archive. | 540 bm |
 Mars 3 Parachute Scrap | Soviet orange nylon from 1971 - the first craft to land softly on Mars. It went silent after 14.5 seconds. Amara would love this for the Archive. | 240 bm |
 Memory Bead | A bead that shows a moving picture if you look into it: a city, under a blue sky. Amara would love this for the Archive. | 1,500 bm |
 Memory Shard: The Carver | A gold crystal that remembers the halls being made. Amara would love this for the Archive. | 1,500 bm |
 Memory Shard: The Garden | A teal crystal that remembers a garden under a blue sky. Amara would love this for the Archive. | 1,500 bm |
 Memory Shard: The Parting | A violet crystal that remembers the choice to leave. Amara would love this for the Archive. | 1,500 bm |
 Memory Shard: The Promise | A rose crystal that remembers a child at the gate. Amara would love this for the Archive. | 1,500 bm |
 Memory Shard: The Warden | A white crystal, still warm. The Warden's last memory. Amara would love this for the Archive. | 1,500 bm |
 Mosaic Piece | A few dozen blue tiles still set together: part of a wave? A face? Amara would love this for the Archive. | 540 bm |
 Music Pipe | A pipe with seven holes. Grace can get a tune out of it. Amara would love this for the Archive. | 540 bm |
 Needle | A fine needle of white metal, still sharp. Amara would love this for the Archive. | 240 bm |
 Oil Lamp | A little lamp with a spout for a wick. Rafael wants it for the cantina. Amara would love this for the Archive. | 540 bm |
 Opportunity Panel Shard | A shard of Opportunity's solar panel. The rover was meant to last 90 sols. It lasted 14 years. Amara would love this for the Archive. | 540 bm |
 Painted Shard | A sherd of pottery with a painted orange stripe. Amara would love this for the Archive. | 240 bm |
 Perseverance Sample Tube | A sealed titanium tube of Jezero mud, cached for a sample-return mission that never came. Amara would love this for the Archive. | 1,500 bm |
 Phoenix Scoop | The robotic-arm scoop that first touched Martian water ice, 2008. Amara would love this for the Archive. | 540 bm |
 Pillar Capital | The carved top of a pillar, all leaves and spirals. Amara would love this for the Archive. | 540 bm |
 Pilot's Glove | Four fingers and two thumbs. Whoever wore it was about your size. Amara would love this for the Archive. | 960 bm |
 Polar Lander Leg | From Mars Polar Lander, lost in 1999. Nobody ever knew exactly what happened. Now you do. Amara would love this for the Archive. | 540 bm |
 Rattle | A hollow gourd of clay with pebbles inside. A baby's toy. Amara would love this for the Archive. | 240 bm |
 Resonance Fork | Two tines of white metal. Struck, it rings for an hour. Amara would love this for the Archive. | 540 bm |
 Ring Band | A gold-coloured band too wide for a human finger. Amara would love this for the Archive. | 540 bm |
 Roof Tile | A curved red tile. They had roofs. They had rain? Amara would love this for the Archive. | 240 bm |
 Sandal Sole | A sole of something like leather, worn thin at the heel and the toe. Amara would love this for the Archive. | 240 bm |
 Schiaparelli Heat Shield | A fragment of the ESA lander that crashed in 2016. Amara would love this for the Archive. | 540 bm |
 Seal Stamp | A stamp with a little emblem: a circle with a line through it. Amara would love this for the Archive. | 540 bm |
 Sky Lens | A lens ground so perfectly that Phobos looks close enough to touch. Amara would love this for the Archive. | 1,500 bm |
 Sojourner Wheel | A tiny cleated wheel from the very first Mars rover, 1997. It's smaller than your hand. Amara would love this for the Archive. | 960 bm |
 Spindle Whorl | A weighted disc for spinning thread. They made cloth. Amara would love this for the Archive. | 240 bm |
 Spiral Fossil | A coiled shell-like fossil. No one agrees on what made it. Amara would love this for the Archive. | 960 bm |
 Spirit's RAT Brush | The rock-abrasion brush from the Spirit rover. Still a little dusty. Amara would love this for the Archive. | 540 bm |
 Star Chart Tablet | Two suns. Whoever made this came from somewhere with two suns. Amara would love this for the Archive. | 1,500 bm |
 Star Map Disc | A disc etched with dots. Desmond says the pattern is the sky - as it was a million years ago. Amara would love this for the Archive. | 960 bm |
 Stone Ladle | Carved from one piece of basalt. Someone stirred a lot of soup with it. Amara would love this for the Archive. | 240 bm |
 Stromatolite Slab | Layered rock built by microbial mats. Proof that something lived here once. Amara would love this for the Archive. | 540 bm |
 Toy Glider | A child's glider of thin shell. It still flies if you throw it right. Amara would love this for the Archive. | 540 bm |
 Viking Footpad | A landing foot from a Viking lander, 1976. Humanity's first long look at the Martian ground. Amara would love this for the Archive. | 540 bm |
 Water Flask | A flask with a stopper that still seals. There's water inside. Old water. Amara would love this for the Archive. | 540 bm |
 Window Grille | A lattice of metal from a window that let in light underground. Amara would love this for the Archive. | 540 bm |
 Zhurong Antenna | From China's Zhurong rover, which roamed Utopia Planitia in 2021. Amara would love this for the Archive. | 960 bm |