The emergency energy storage unit carried a Miniature Long-Term Recording Device that was not managed by the Master Control System. This feature had originally been retained solely to troubleshoot the ancient, rudimentary, non-intelligent system when an automatic gate failure left the entire area without emergency lighting.
Now, however, it had become a record of the unidentified machine body's movements.
The unidentified machine body had activated in the armory and passed through dozens of compartments along the hull. Its route was direct and decisive, proving that it held detailed information about the ship.
After heading straight to the main control room, it had left the ship through a docking port in the outer armor on the starboard side.
The faint wear marks left on a mechanical handle it had turned suggested that it was roughly the size of a Sentinel, but possessed considerable power. Of course, the possibility that this unidentified machine body had been specially designed could not be ruled out.
After that, however, all information about it vanished.
At the time, the base's master control had already been partially offline, with fewer than half its modules still functioning.
Iax examined several storage units through which the data had passed at the time, only to discover that these Quantum Storage Units had long since been damaged. Their quantum storage cores had lost all their information.
Although the machine body's destination after leaving was unknown, the base's damaged Master Control System had logged this unusual entry several hours after its departure from the ship.
After careful analysis, Iax was certain that the hidden data was still somewhere on this planet.
It was even highly likely that the time-reversal fleet had come to this planet specifically to hide that data.
The supposed garrison orders had most likely never been issued through normal