The star map of the Milky Way flickered before Iax as data was read from each marked location.
When the records of a planet in the Segmentum Obscurus opened, the information within finally answered a question that had troubled Iax for a long time.
ST-122 Abnormal activation <Command units: MCTCI-EX core type (incomplete) ×1; MCTCI-XII mobile units ×3> Status: error <Warning: controlling mechanical units missing; XII Command Units abnormally damaged> Combat units: basic Mechanical Legion Status: destroyed
Iax was certain he was a unique creation.
After comparing the star map with the records, Iax was certain that the planet the Federation had designated ST-122 was the Imperial world where he had first awakened.
After quickly reviewing and analyzing all the records and protocols concerning this planet, Iax finally learned things he had never known before.
The decrepit Sentinel forces he had first discovered were all part of the basic legion.
The hidden fortress on the surface and the Shatterer Cannon were both part of the base's supporting facilities.
He himself should originally have been in the deepest hibernation chamber.
Iax suspected that the Adeptus Mechanicus might have disturbed the planet's crust while developing it, or that the long wars afterward had been responsible.
After all, the Adeptus Mechanicus usually developed a planet by first plowing its entire surface with macro-cannons and bombs, then beginning development.
As for war, almost every planet had endured at least one during the Imperium's ten thousand years of history.
But the end result was the same: the dormant base had gradually been torn apart.
Worse still, the first section to be torn apart had been the power center.
Without its energy supply, the base had lost the ability to maintain itself.
After the passage of countless years, all its stasis devices had ceased