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Once all of our heroes have come aboard the ship, Excalibur II ascends. The remains of Liege Maximo’s island home shrink from view as the ship rockets out from Astrum’s atmosphere and jumps into transwarp, making a brief flight to Primogenitum to place its quintesson captives into the custody of the Knights of Cybertron.
Nova’s mech had remained in the medical bay throughout the fight, though Moreyn and his team hadn’t been able to find the time to fully repair it, busy as they are with their wounded crewmembers and the prisoners.
The ground bridge closes behind Hauler as he crosses over onto the ship. Some of the crew make curious glances at this new addition to the team, while the rest turn their attention to Liege Maximo as he shares his knowledge with our heroes.
Liege Maximo straightens his posture and begins to speak, raising his voice slightly to be heard throughout the hangar.
“Back in the Golden Age,” he says, “Alpha Trion worked to decrypt some of the ciphers in the original Covenant of Primus. Most of what he found, we couldn’t make sense of- but one of those codes turned out to be a star map. The Knights followed it to a desert planet, while Alpha Trion tried to find more information within the Covenant. That planet is Lacuna- as far as hiding places go, I’d say Sentinel Prime made a wise choice.”
Meanwhile, on the bridge, the command crew of Excalibur continue to discuss the potential revelation made pertaining to Gabriel’s identity. Captain Gravastar opens the file sent by Chancellor Patel and begins to read the historical data contained within.
“Arnold Troy disappeared after Amity’s government rejected a proposal for an expedition into unmapped tunnels beneath the planet’s surface,” Gravastar reads aloud. “A team sent down thirty years later found his survey gear in a cavern in the southern hemisphere, but no trace of the man himself.”
“So that’s when the quints snatched him up,” Redshift infers as she steers the ship through transwarp. “But why? I mean, he was just another human, wasn’t he?”