A few minutes later, steel footsteps and the hum of Servo Systems came from the opening above.
Red-robed figures descended into the metal hall, silent for ten thousand years, like mechanical vultures following the scent of ancient technology.
The Adeptus Mechanicus expedition had arrived. Several senior Tech-Priests and Archmagoses led the way, their mechanical eyes gleaming with greedy red light. Multiple mechanical arms eagerly reached toward the cold walls around them, sensors fully active, capturing every anomalous reading and trace of residual energy.
Lorgar merely told them, "We have discovered what appears to be a Dark Age of Technology Ruins," and pointed them toward the control room.
No further words were needed. A thirst for knowledge drove these half-human, half-machine explorers.
They soon took over the main control room. Countless data cables snaked like tentacles into dust-covered ports, while droning binary prayers and logical chants echoed through the empty hall.
Surprisingly, despite its primitive external defenses, the immense vessel's internal data core remained relatively intact.
At the cost of three burned-out Logic Engines and a technician briefly knocked offline by data overload, the Tech-Priests successfully extracted and translated the complete structural schematics stored in the deepest stasis database.
When the holographic projection unfolded before Lorgar, revealing the full structure of the immense vessel named the Superstar, even his Primarch's mind felt a cold shock.
It was a vast disc of suffocating perfection, its diameter marked as 1,200 kilometers.
The projection peeled away its structure layer by layer.
The outermost layer consisted of a heavy hull clad in unknown alloy armor, along with observation decks.
Beneath lay intricate, labyrinthine residential districts, entertainment levels, ecological support systems, and Power Cores.
The central region contained reactor arrays of unimaginable size, along with the stellar destruction device of unknown operating principles called the "regulation