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Intel & Recon, Pt 4
Raijin exited her machine trance with a long gasp. She stepped back just as she withdrew the last of her nanites from the databank, then turned towards Xylo with a grin on her face.
“So, you found something good, then?” Xylo said.
“I can confirm our suspicions,” Raijin replied. “The ships are almost completely biomechanical, and its systems are derived from those eggs. The larva are combined with each other in various ways, then attached to the massive exoframes. It is there that they evolve into pupa, and begin to form into the various systems, modules, circuits, everything.”
“Everything? That’s wild.”
“Well, almost everything. Perhaps 80% of every Drogar warship is biomechanical in nature. Just like peop
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