>>5271405I'd like to imagine Talos is at least nominally aware of the Lucian core. How Dark Age humanity likely constructed it, how it is contained, and why it hasn't blown up yet. It may be more of an inferential type of knowledge like when Perturabo tried to explain in medieval terms how rain came from evaporated water via the ocean and the heat of the sun rather than the will of Gods.
What Technomancy might unlock, if it has Datamancer powers as QM said, would be to actually more easily bypass any old defensive screens and reach into the heart of the forge worlds machine spirit and get more precise details. That would be fun!
The name of the companies and the identity of the old builders.
What the Federation was like from lost archives.
Exact statistics on the core, its estimated run time, any damages that could be repaired, potential alternative uses as a planetary drive or superlaser mayhaps?
One day, maybe, it is not the Blackstone Fortress that is our greatest ship in the void. . .but our entire world. A World Engine.
