Under ice, discovery and evolution

[Lolipop12]

Location: Omicron Kappa / Planet Gammu / Sector A12-Z3
Time: 19:00 / Planet Gammu time zone
Date: August 835 A.S

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Each steps created an echo because of the emptiness of the cavity. Rocks, some minerals and ice were the only things that decorated the area. It was the left cavity Novak decided to explore first. The temperature was below zero and it was dark. No light was lightening the zone. The only lights that one could see would be the energy of Novak glowing red and yet with a shy hue of purple. Unlike humans, Novak was adapting its vision significatively in order to distinct everything. Unexpected, a metal crushing sound was heard. Novak looked around and then, looking at its feet, it stepped on an arm of an old frame. A lifeless Gammunian no longer in service. Stepping aside, Novak analyzed the body. Rust ate some of the plating, but all the rest was looking preserved. Not quite sure why this lifeless Gammunian was there, Novak concluded one thing. Before obsolescence, it was on the surface and then, with years, the body sank to this location because of the seismic activities of the planet. With no actual data, impossible to assume it was what had happen.

For a brief moment, Novak seriously considered to absorb this lifeless Gammunian. It considered what would happen if it did this. ''Perhaps the memory of this unit is intact... If it is true, perhaps the data saved can be valuable.'' That was what Novak thought and perhaps it was also a true assessment. With no second thought, Novak teared apart the lifeless body in the search of an intact component. The circuitry was damaged a bit and then, Novak found the core of the unit. The core would be where the personality would be stored with all the essential data. It was a small cube. Novak then observed it with attention and finally, it started walking again while just focusing on the object.

The further Novak was venturing, more lifeless machines were resting. As old as the first one it discovered by stepping on it. There was some old equipment and old Gammunians too. All inoperant and forgotten. ''Curious... those shells... those old equipment... 'I' cannot comprehend, why 'I' sense a certain 'nostalgia'. The old shell 'I' possessed was oddly similar- obsolete.'' Stated Novak to itself. Still holding the core it found earlier, Novak decided to act on a weird behavior. It simply insert the old core within its humanoid body. The connection with its internal circuits began. ''Connection successful.'' Unexpected, within its internal mind, a presence started to form. Letting the presence to gain a bit more some ground, Novak was physically still, but its digital form was staring at the new entity. The entity seemed unstable, glitching. ''Query-'' It started saying, but not letting the presence to continue, the digital form of Novak simply absorbed the glitching presence and at the same time, gaining some old data.

The data Novak collected was received as a revelation. For a moment, Novak glitched and so the humanoid form was trembling. Then, when the calm return, Novak knew where the mechanism was. And somehow, the data collected also contained a fragment of what was inside. It was imperative now. Novak had to find the mechanism and activate it one way or another.

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Rhodeia --- Unit-9467F --- K'Halaesh

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