“Manufacturing is,” Forerunner agreed. “But that isn’t what happened. That… device… stripped away material all the way down to Sanctuary’s superstructure. I am not receiving signals from any mesh-networked devices within the island that used to be Othar. The greatest loss is my central processing node—I had more hardware concentrated in that location than anywhere else on this ring. Most of my redundancies were meant to be small enough to escape detection if Celestia attacked. There are only three with any real processing capacity—the consensus node aboard the Emperor’s Soul, a half-dozen synthsleeves distributed in various locations, and the exploration module aboard the N.E.S. Agamemnon. I have instructed a significant fraction of my backup redundancies to begin construction, so that I may rebuild my network in a totally decentralized fashion. But unassisted, they will require years to accomplish this task. I don’t believe Equestria has that much time.”