The work on the disabled construct continued for several hours.
Lysara kept the expedition at a safe distance from Annex Seven while the drones searched through the machine's memory and copied anything that had survived.
The seventeen remaining constructs stayed inside the station, and although several power sources remained active behind the outer armor, none of them came back out.
That suited Aurelian perfectly.
He had no reason to start another battle while Eirenne was making progress.
Most of the construct's memory was useless. Centuries of damage had left entire sections unreadable, while other parts had been overwritten so many times that Eirenne could only recover fragments.
The useful parts were mostly maintenance records.
That turned out to be enough.
The construct had spent most of its existence moving between Annex Seven's damaged sections, carrying replacement material, repairing power systems, and responding to threats around the station.
