>>5204926>Allow our eyes to heal, take off the blackstone pendant, and let them recover. We have not confirmed or denied if our sight is corrupted, or hails from the machine god. True it is psychic in nature, but the Machine God may work in mysterious ways. More the so, the willful loss of information without even having confirmed its purity or corruption is a sin in the eyes of the machine god.
Heal it as the battle goes on
Consider taking off our eyes whenever we have to experiment with blackstone and putting them in a tank, and operate with bionic eyes, so we do not damage them unecessarily. It will be a simple thing to extinguish them if they are truly corrupted, but if we extinguish them prematurely it may not even be possible to get it back.
>Gather the fleet and approach, see if you can screen out any attacks.>Other plansSuspect that this may be a trap made to lure our fleet with a smaller weaker fleet and a tempting target, and that a much larger force may soon warp in.
Suspect that there may be ships hiding among the asteroid field too.
Operate under this principle, and send a comparable fleet to take the bait but be prepared either to face down the real larger foe, or keep withdrawal routes open until we determine the full extent of the enemies forces here. There's places for them to hide
