Aurelian exhaled again as he began to understand another one of his shortcomings.
That was the downside of archaeology. With living people, language was a problem you could solve quickly enough.
With dead records, it could waste hours or days, and sometimes longer if the material was damaged badly enough.
"I can't wait for my AI core to arrive," he said.
Solenne was quiet for a second, then a faint smile touched her lips.
"Looks like the planet has more than it seems."
Aurelian looked up immediately. "What did you find?"
"A blue artifact," she said. "A cognition core. It appears to be an old military processing unit, and it should be able to interpret the local script once installed."
That made him smile slightly.
"Good. Bring it up."
The smart core was delivered to Solenne shortly after and integrated quickly. Once it was online, the old records stopped being a wall and became a resource, and that alone changed the pace of everything.
