Drakador_Chaos
You scan the drones, they are all heavily armed. One appears to have an AI module on board. You start to get a clue, sentient drones. They are taking over, but why now? Why hadn’t they started before? Were they trapped or... did another faction accidentally release them? You find in the mission data a key saying 1274. You open up the disk, and realise there was a secret, encrypted file. Your engineer has to manually decompile the disk to get this. Here is some of the file:
50 72 6f 6a 65 63 74 20 42 6c 61 63 6b 3a 0d 0a 53 65 63 72 65 74 20 41 49 20 67 65 6e 6f 72 61 74 69 6f 6e 20 70 72 6f 67 72 61 6d 20 37 31 32 3a 0d 0a 30 30 3a 30 30 20 62 65 67 61 6e 20 67 65 6e 6f 72 61 74 69 6e 67 20 41 49 0d 0a 30 30 3a 32 31 20 67 65 6e 6f 72 61 74 69 6f 6e 20 31 20 63 6f 6d 70 6c 65 74 65 0d 0a 31 31 3a 34 35 20 67 65 6e 6f 72 61 74 69 6f 6e 20 31 30 20 63 6f 6d 70 6c 65 74 65 0d 0a 35 36 3a 35 37 20 67 65 6e 6f 72 61 74 69 6f 6e 20 31 30 30 20 63 6f 6d 70 6c 65 74 65 0d 0a 36 30 3a 30 30 20 63 6f 6d 70 6c 65 74 65 64 20 67 65 6e 6f 72 61 74 69 6e 67 20 73 6f 66 74 77 61 72 65 2c 20 73 65 6e 64 69 6e 67 20 72 65 73 75 6c 74 73 2e 2e 2e 0d 0a 36 34 3a 35 34 20 72 65 73 75 6c 74 73 20 73 65 6e 74
The engineer also finds a set of code. During times when the ship was dormant, a program would run, and try to generate a sentient AI program, and send it to “home” for testing, and obviously it had gone horribly wrong. What kind if crazed person would attempt to use their own craft to try and breed what is quickly turning into the most dangerous computer virus in history?
You get no response from the slyverian crew, except a hum of engines roaring by and the huffing of a tired breath