According to the Alliance's statement, their artificial intelligence had gone out of control and had repeatedly sought aid from the Empire.
However, this major inspection revealed that the Imperial Military believed it was not simply a matter of the AI losing control.
The Alliance might not have been able to control the artificial intelligence's behavior, but it was very likely capable of partially influencing its actions.
Before this, the Imperial Military had also encountered this kind of artificial intelligence, which merely carried out simple intrusions and seized control.
But this time was different.
Whether it was the concealment of the fragments lurking aboard battalion-class ships or the backdoor in the Second Commander's flagship, both displayed an extremely strong sense of purpose.
These special configurations served the tactics and even strategy of the entire battlefield. They had nothing to do with the artificial intelligence's own survival needs.
Given the circumstances, how could the Alliance possibly have had no influence whatsoever over the artificial intelligence?
That was why the military had been beside itself with rage after verifying the situation.
In fact, when the Risk Control Department had initially assessed the incident, there had been another risk estimate they could not voice aloud.
They believed that the initial Digital Attack launched by the battalion-class ships against the Experimental Platform might not even have come from the Alliance's artificial intelligence.
In other words, this might have been a performance staged by Digital Phantom itself, pretending to have been attacked.
As for why they would do that and what they hoped to achieve afterward, only heaven knew.
Yet the results of the large-scale inspection proved that this speculation was pure wishful thinking.
Fortunately, the military understood the stakes and had not leaked even a hint of it. Otherwise, they truly did not dare imagine