Excavation operations continued around the clock...
It had been far too long since the fall of the Nyx Civilization. Any traditional printed books or organic records had long since rotted to dust.
Under these conditions, if even one out of ten thousand organic books was preserved as a fossil, it would be considered a miraculous stroke of luck. But even then, there was a high probability the fossilized text would be illegible, providing very limited data.
This reality posed massive hurdles for the Federation's historical researchers. They could only place their hopes on recovering sealed electronic storage drives or highly durable, high-grade physical collectibles.
Plastics, specialized alloys, and silicon-based microchips were highly resistant to natural corrosion and could theoretically survive intact if preserved in vacuum-sealed environments.
