Antares' disregard for old GTA classifications has proven, once again, to be a huge boon for my investigation. While I was in transit to Antares, most of the old research team got back together - apparently, getting some measure of revenge on the pirates who stole the project of a lifetime is pretty good motivation, even now. They'd managed to hold on to a few pieces - minor components that escaped the pirates' notice - and, of course, had backups of their data, so we met in a discreet location to go over it.

Firstly, the Shivan components. The team's Shivan specialist had a lot to say about those. They have the same structure as the "arms" of a Seraphim-class bomber, where the ship's electronics warfare system lives, which gave them a leg up on understanding them. He thinks they're the Shivan equivalent of a sensor jammer or ECM jammer, retuned to be most effective against other Shivan systems - in other words, an anti-Shivan cloaking system. He also said that Shivan technology is "roughly as organic as the Shivans themselves", which I'd rather not know, to be perfectly honest.

The Ancient components seem to be a control system, according to the xenolinguist who'd translated their markings. They'd allow an Ancient computer to operate the stealth tech. Pretty straightforward, aside from the part where it's interfacing with the corpse of a semi-organic murder ship. The Ancient writing didn't stop there, though - there was some on the unidentified components, but they're not original, and literally translate to "elsewhere bottle". This was speculated to be some sort of drive system, but without the original object, they couldn't be sure. Other Ancient markings describe it as millennia old - a relic of a civilization ancient even to the Ancients. Perhaps they, too, were a victim of the Shivans in their day, but that's speculation.

What isn't speculation is that there's more to this object. The team believes it was originally a scout ship, or possibly a stealth fighter. As we talked that over, something unexpected happened. The team lead had been pretty quiet the whole time, and when she finally spoke up, she said she knew something the others didn't. She'd been briefed - briefly - on a GTI project which made use of at least some of the other components. She wasn't told much beyond a list of things to report and a code name.

The meeting didn't last long after the reveal that their leader had been withholding information, and I'm all the more curious for it. If anyone reading this has knows anything about "Project INEDAM", please reach out. I think it's at the center of all this.

