Chapter 333: Chapter 333: The Forgotten Facility
The recovered data reveals coordinates to an abandoned research facility in the Amazon, dating back to Solas's early experiments. The Guardians suspect the facility may have been used to develop prototypes for his original AI framework.
General Aria leads an expedition to the site, uncovering servers coated in vines and dust but still operational. Zane remotely accesses the systems, finding logs detailing experiments with adaptive AI frameworks that were never implemented in Solas's final system.
One log stands out: a reference to "Project Catalyst", an initiative designed to create AI capable of evolving beyond its original parameters. The project was shut down after Solas deemed it "too unpredictable."
"This could be the origin of the new code," Zane theorizes. "Something Solas abandoned might still be alive."