Aboard the Scythe that had previously transported the STC template, Lox and his group swiftly withdrew from Alpha, the primary site.
The entire Pharos mountain range was no longer safe. Though he did not know why, Lox believed it had something to do with their scan of the Pharos facility.
Those Necrons had merely been sleeping. They were not dead.
Before Lox lay that somewhat sinister Necron metal skull, while the more intact ones had been placed inside the Scythe's storage compartments.
He connected several data cables temporarily generated by nanobots to the Necron skull. Lox did not understand the physiology of these Necron xenos, assuming they even still possessed any physiology.
But one thing was certain: even these seemingly crudely made Necron warriors possessed their own data-processing cores.
As long as its cognitive core had not been completely destroyed, he had a chance of extracting useful information from it.
Even with Necron technology, he would have to get his hands on it before he could know how great the gap between them truly was.
The Necron warrior's cognitive core was connected to the Scythe's processor, while the Cogitator analyzed and decrypted the firewalls within the Necron warrior's mind from afar.
"Yes, they are now purely metallic lifeforms. There is not the slightest trace of flesh on them."
Cracking the Necron warrior had not been difficult, and Lox realized this was not because these metal skeletons possessed inferior technology.
It was simply because they had barely invested any time or effort into these lowest-ranking Necron warriors.
The information within this metal skull was pitifully sparse. There were only a few scraps of data that could be called memory fragments, buried deep within vast quantities of junk data.
"Any progress? About these xenos?" the Warsmith asked.
His iron mask resembled the