The recovered cabinet rests inside a quarantine sleeve beside Nikayo’s upgraded drone records. Nahuli remains with him in the instrument bay while Lahani, Ranuko, Kiryati, and Liyanu stay elsewhere aboard Amber Wing.
Nahuli establishes a read-only optical interface between the sleeve and the isolated Instrument Bench. Every connection terminates at quarantine, leaving navigation, weapons, and the return-burn controls untouched.
Nahuli
Keep the cabinet’s power remnants passive. We are reading what survived, not waking whatever made it.
Nikayo compares the cabinet’s surviving authentication marks against the buried lattice’s stable timing data. Several marks align with the isolated clock, while older access entries break into incomplete, unreadable segments.
Nahuli
A timing match supports provenance, not ownership. Record the distinction before the archive makes the conclusion for us.
The interface resolves its first readable fragment: a maker identifier followed by a purpose classification. The access history remains incomplete, its missing sections bounded by clean archival gaps rather than corrupted noise.
The fragment waits in quarantine beside the drone records. Nahuli leaves the interface stable and silent, giving Nikayo the first clear evidence without deciding what the cabinet ultimately means.
✓ Quest Accepted
Verify the cabinet's origin and purpose