- "You're a scientific man. Look at this later and try to understand what I wanted to do and what I had to do."
- —Adam Fenix giving the disk to Damon Baird.[1]
Adam Fenix's data disk is a computer data disk given by Adam Fenix to Damon Baird[1] that contains a multitude of information, eighty-seven percent of which was authored by Adam himself.[2]
History[]
Given to Damon Baird[]
During the Battle of Pinnacle Tower, Adam Fenix gave Damon Baird the disk in response to his questions. Adam requested that Baird, as a scientific man, go through the contents and try to understand what Adam had wanted to do and what he had to do.[1]
Over the next 25 years, Baird spent countless hours going through all the files, something that he dubbed Project Morning Star with the passphrase "look to the sky." To hide the disk from anyone else seeking it out, Baird left it unlabeled in a drawer of identical disks to fool anyone but himself. The only thing that distinguished Adam's disk from the identical copies was a small white dot on its edge, imperceptible unless you knew to look for it. Despite spending 25 years going through the data, it was so immense that Baird had only barely scratched the surface of what the information had to offer.[3]
Reactivating the Hammer of Dawn[]
In 42 A.E., after the outbreak of the Swarm Invasion, Baird decided to try to reactivate the long-dormant Hammer of Dawn against the orders of First Minister Mina Jinn. To this end, he enlisted the help of his AI assistant IRIS to look through Adam's data disk for clues, Adam having been the original inventor of the Hammer of Dawn. Baird ordered IRIS to look for anything related to the Hammer of Dawn not referenced in her own files such as places and names. Baird finally spotted a reference that he didn't understand in relation to the Hammer of Dawn, something that he had previously overlooked or ignored: Azura.[3] The reference ultimately pointed to an Azura Research Facility on the island where the Hammer had been constructed and launched from and which still had a prototype satellite Baird believed could be the first step to restoring the network.[4]
Appearances[]
- Gears of War 3 (First appearance)
- Ascendance
- Gears 5 (Mentioned only)
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Gears of War 3: Act V: Ascension
- ↑ Gears of War: Ascendance pg. 353
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Gears of War: Ascendance pg. 352-353
- ↑ Gears 5