...months after it´s last interaction with the outside world, Mainframe Primary was going after it´s daily routines, outbound sensors showed nothing particularly out of the ordinary...
Endless reports from countless patrols, filled with uncounted Drones, amongst them a few not particularly interesting, started sending their data over a different proxy than usually, as of yet unknown to Primary, the proxy duplicated ID data from various nameless AI-Drones and sent it off to an outward point, while at the same time still sending it´s normal mission and scan reports towards it´s mainframe as per usual...