The non-human visitor was picked up and given access to the ship.
Picked up in a remote place in Tau-23, Novak was lead from the docking bay towards the lower half of the Argentum. He was able to see that the ship was mainly a manufacturing place for specialised equipment. The ship being mainly controlled via manual terminal inputs made it look like an outdated piece fit for a museum but it was also clear that this was made to be like this on purpose, maybe due to someone in charge having too much of a paranoia or just someone wanting to be safe, both applies in parts.
Going past the laboratories and testing range entering the lower decks, Vanesca using one of the F-Suits before leading the AI guest further into a sealed off place inside an artificial testing room for environmental hazards, a big room, high ceiling and full of variations of debris, both energetic and non-energetic alike. The "dormant" personality cores were put in another room that was basically empty, the only light in that room coming from a single terminal screen as the power for that section was otherwise shut down. Guest Novak could see and examine with ease, nothing was done to further harm those cores and Vanesca explained what she and her crew did outside of putting those there. No speck of dust in that room, no dirt, just the quiet hum of the cores and distant machines.
The main purpose was to study how the pieces of a core interact with each other, this could be found out via scanners, ultra-sonic measurements and similar methods of non penetrative nature. The humans lacked the proper tools to take those cores apart properly, meaning doing so with unsuited means would damage what they want to understand in parts and that wasn't an option. The goal was to get enough data for those more efficient components to create their own parts. The suits would benefit from such, scanner technology as well.
A few microchips were presented, fruits of learning, showing a non-optimal but functional piece that uses a structure after a mixed image of human and AI-style wiring. It was a baby-step and surely not the end. The reason for doing this kind of research was not to make a copy of the AI, it was to advance what Vanesca had to work with. How does AI process and store information? How can this be understood and then used for the Starfliers for even better results? Answers were the goal and the personality cores among the guest a mean to reach it.
It was now up to Novak's temper to let the crew continue the study in a non harming way to the cores, unless he wasn't having it.
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