<strong>Forbidden Lore (Archaotech)</strong>suggests the fighter might be a remnant of some older planetary defense force's armaments, but the modifications look far more recent. Without examining it further, its not possible to confirm this or say for certain.<br/><br/><strong>Common Lore (Tech)</strong>states that modifying a device may well count as tech-heresy, and seeing how patchwork the fighter-craft's armaments are it seems highly likely that its far from being a mere strange 'standard template construction'. The fighter craft appears to house several las-weapons on its surface, fixed to fire straight ahead. It looks dangerous to even try and lift.<br/><br/><strong>Common Lore (Machine Cult)</strong>further states that this kind of machinery scraped together in a battle might earn the modifying group front-line duty as a penalty and penance to the Omnissiah. Taking apart a weapon of the Cult of Mechanicus and reassembling it takes notable skill though. Its beyond the crude 'jury rigging' of even imperial guard's most devoted vehicle-crews, though far from the careful computation of the forge world crafters. Lastly, if a Heretek is found out to be behind such experimental creation, it may well be a sign of bigger trouble.<br/><br/><strong>Forbidden Lore (Adeptus Mechanicus)</strong>includes some knowledge of the STC models, and their sheer value. While the craft's base form has been crudely modified its still looking different from what the machine cult is using. It might suggest the craft's unmodified version would be an example of one of the lost technologies. What one of them is doing sitting around in a hangar such as this is harder to say. If the Adeptus Mechanicus were to be informed of this they might well take the craft to try and study its base form and see if there's evidence to suggest a lost template is present on the world. Return with one of them might well provide prestige and Omnissiah's favor.<br/><br/>----<br/><br/>Failed in the most important one yes, but the Common Lore was quite good indeed, so tried to include information on the cult's stance on the matter. Also posted in-game post to move the story along somewhat.<br/><br/>The group should have a chance to set out, I'll aim to reply at Sunday at latest, once I know where they agree to head out on, or if they have more to ask from someone or if they turn their attention towards the craft in the hangar, so forth.