Following the trajectory of whatever armor piece was near here would lead to the object. Following it backward to the point where it was all on its body would both determine what the thing was, and what exactly happened after it stopped remembering things. Its suit came apart into seven segments, and half the pieces would be more useful to get early than the other three. Each leg was its own self-contained transit system, and the torso was just great in every respect, but the tail didn’t really do anything on its own and the arms were just mobile weapon platforms.

“Which part is the close dot?”

“Give me a minute, this physically based location interface is somewhat garbage.”

“Fair.”

Lightning was getting a bit out of hand. Unfortunately, looking down toward the giant pile of plants, none of it was hitting the fields. All of it was striking in a forest. If it hadn’t resulted in a forest fire by now, the place was probably not dry enough for one to start at all. Something new though; it looked like there were dots flying up out of the woods and back down very quickly, progressing in a line. Like fleas jumping to get a better position, but obviously with larger creatures. Apparently everything here could jump enormous heights, and something was moving through there to make everything run away.

Either that or they were getting tossed into the sky very, very quickly.

Regardless, not something that would directly impact it, most likely. That was all the way over there, and it was at the top of an easily scalable hill. The kind that a human could jump to the top of in a single bound. Definitely not something to worry about. The sun was nowhere near the top of the sky; from its perspective it had even gone down a bit. Actually…

It decided to stare at the sun. That was perfectly fine, it would regenerate. What wasn’t perfectly fine was the fact that the sun moved to the left slightly as it stared.

“Where does the sun rise and set, exactly?”

“It rises on the right and sets on the left. You can watch the whole thing from the imperial city in the center of the continent.”

“I’m just going to think for a minute.”

That was like a riddle. It probably made more sense before it went through the translator, but that sounded like a lot of nonsense. Always rises on the right? So, if you’re facing the sun, it rose from the right of you, and sets to the left of you. Implying an axis of rotation perpendicular to the star itself, which also made no sense. Gravitational forces would cause bodies to circle a star while rotating parallel to the movement. Even if it had that kind of spin to start with, it would have started circling at some point during its accretion phase due to the conservation of angular momentum. In other words, as the particles became an actual body the momentum of every single particle in it would be added together, and in a solar system those particles would all be on the same plane. In no way would something have its momentum shifted ninety degrees with no particular reasoning.

“So, how long is it until midday, would you say?”

“It was midday about twenty minutes ago.”

Well ok then. If the facts don’t fit the theory, the theory is wrong. Apparently this place did work that way. The question then became, how. Actually there were more important questions, like when the team currently distracted by throwing animals living in the woods into an environment far less suitable to their survival was going to decide that nothing in there fit the description of a massively powerful creature with a human form.

Hopefully they just wouldn’t at all, and if they did, it would be someone trying to use lightning. There was more than one way to charge up a battery.