The Past, Rewired

[Soban]

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Donagan hadn’t even noticed the file Derius had unlocked; Seth Wither meant next to nothing to him. However, as data poured through the system, he spotted a recurring pattern that looked strangely familiar while various algorithms parsed the ciphered information. Rummaging through his Engineer’s Suit, he unearthed a small datapad after a bit of pocket-scuffling. A brief search of its files—and multiple security checks—yielded a graph titled: Power core energy level under intense stress. Ship class: Leviathan.

“Seems there’s a mighty big skeleton lurking in the closet here. If I’m right, this data should never have left the Zoner databanks…” he muttered, clearly annoyed.

He knew McCool’s obsession with the Leviathan, so it hardly surprised him to find these details popping up. Donagan had always suspected there was a link between those Ingenuus power cells and the Leviathan.

“This might be worth a try; the data’s well-known by now.”

He uploaded the graph, instructing one instance of the calculator to extrapolate what it could about the original graph and its presumed ciphered twin. Turning his attention back to Derius, he continued:

“If it’s what I reckon, we willnae have the whole key to their cipher just yet, but it’ll give us clues about how they’ve scrambled the data. I’ll keep runnin’ more extrapolations on yer file as it uploads.”