John didn’t wait to ask Valva what they knew about the mysterious structures located on Vita Nova, as well as the floating station they were in. The Soku didn’t know much, except that they didn't create them; they were left by an unknown alien race.
Could that mysterious race be Goliath or its creators? Something didn’t fit; the robots on Vita Nova shined in red and attacked every intruder. They even attacked the Soku, months before the Eternity of Return entered the system. However, the ones on Hawking-616f, or Sema —Shelter, in the Soku language— shined lilac and didn’t attack visitors.
The Soku also didn’t know anything about the Insectoids that boarded the Eternity of Return. They had fought them before, but could never retrieve a body and much less capture one alive. They just gues
