As an incomplete silicon-based intelligence, Myriad Thought actually had no advantage over a proper member of the Men of Iron. At last, Iax gained access to all of this chaotic intelligence's core records.
"Now let me see just what you've stuffed into your core data."
If digital consciousness could be made tangible, the scene would have been explosive.
A vast torrent of data surged brutally into Myriad Thought's core program.
Iax found some clues in the modifications to its underlying protocols. Myriad Thought was confirmed to be an illegal Men of Iron core manufactured by certain corporate conglomerates during the Federation era.
But even those giant corporate consortiums would not have manufactured a machine that refused to obey orders.
As the core analysis progressed, Iax soon uncovered more information.
The timestamps embedded in the core data showed that someone had worked on completing this Intelligence Core again a thousand years later.
But both the way the additions had been entered and their program structure were extremely crude.
It was precisely these strange programs added later that had given Myriad Thought its peculiar thought patterns.
It was like someone had used utterly unprofessional, brute-force methods to build a wooden house on a solid concrete foundation.
Only then did Iax understand why Myriad Thought, despite behaving like a chaos intelligence, still obeyed protocols.
It was because of the underlying protocols established during the Federation era.
Whoever had later written additional functions to complete Myriad Thought clearly had only a partial understanding of this unusual, unfinished machine Intelligence Core.
Its data absorption had neither limits nor the ability to discriminate, its reinforcement instructions were poorly formulated, and its replication instructions were likewise incorrect.
Yet it was precisely because of this that the chaotic Intelligence Core had failed to function normally.
Otherwise, by any