If there's any job I'm proud of, it's finding the Mainframe. The Mainframe itself was for breaking codes, or at least that's what Merlin tells me. He uses a lot of words like "superposition" and "entanglement" when he explains it though, so don't say I didn't warn you. The thing is heavier than it looks and it takes a room full of gadgets as big as the Boneyard's Number One smelter to keep it running.

It wasn't the only thing they had down there. Some kind of security system they had gone crazy, controlling these freaky robots. They looked and moved like animals, sort of, but wrong. Weapons for the Last War that they never got to deploy. A few of them were partly alive, I think. They bled at least.

There was something else fighting them down there too, something that'd gotten loose while we were distracting the robots. We never got a good look at it, but it sure wasn't human. I could swear it was trying to get deeper into the place too.

The second time we headed down there, it was just more robots fighting us. We didn't head as deep that time. Different part of the complex - the hanger bay. They'd been working on an escape option too. One of the saddest things I've ever seen, that beautiful white ship lying there with its back broken and gathering dust.

I wandered around it for a bit, while Merlin and Crow were pulling apart it's computer for the parts the Mainframe needed. Saw the crypts that the passengers would have slept in, the ark where they'd have grown the plants and animals to populate a new world. The suits hanging in rows, waiting for a crew that had gone back to the dirt a long time ago.

It was supposed to go to the stars. That would have been a journey to tell tales about.