5/51 Forbidden lore (Xenos) (http://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=26853)<br/>Sarah's mind flashes instantly back to the odd, masked techpriests in ammo room #4, the old, yet potent technology being studied there, and the hull areas of the Alexander that had been sealed off.<br/><br/>She describes how she came to investigate,<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Investigating the ship's logs, Sarah found that massive sections of the hull had been walled off during warp drive renovations, and that nearly all of the ship's technical data was classified.  More disturbingly, there was a massive energy flux in one of the ship's ammunition supply rooms, where in a single section, the techpriests had been engaging in "routine maintenence" at about 3 times the rate of any single component combined.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>And her meeting with the group,<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">The tech-priest in the ammunition room hesitates, then turns back and looks into the room. A rapid, twittering exchange of Tech-lingua flies between him and several other, unseen individuals, before he returns his attention to Sarah. <br/><br/>"Inspection....yes. Yes. You may see our project. You will be very pleased."<br/><br/>He moves aside to allow Sarah entrance into the ammunition room. As she suspected, it had been simply, if effectively, renovated into an enginarium of sorts, with the door guard, one or two other younger tech-priests, and several older Mechanicus in long, flowing robes with full-face metal masks that may or may not have been their actual faces. In the center of the 'ammo room' was the project in question, looking like nothing so much as a gigantic, rectangular black box sitting on a repurposed missile platform. visually innocuous but humming with contained energy fluxes.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>She then goes on to address her findings about the mysterious black box.<br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Based on her examination of the box-like object, Sarah determines that it appears to be designed to absorb a massive amount of energy from the ship's power supply, store it in a bank of capacitors, then release it all in one large burst. The design strongly resembles archaeotech, rather than any approved STC-based Imperial design.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Finally, Sarah says, "I think perhaps we should visit, and bring our Kroot's nose along with us, don't you think, Captain?"