Once the atmosphere inside the Colony ship was deemed safe throughout the whole vessel the Regiment started doing a room-to-room search to see what might have been left behind. There was a surprising amount of supplies left behind by the Colonists when they transferred ships, presumably because the other vessel was already fully loaded and there simply wasn't anywhere to put them.
There weren't any sorts of weapons, and most of the agricultural plus all the terraforming technology were taken with them, but they still left many things behind for the Kepler forces to find. The most notable of which was the Stasis pods themselves.
The technology was impressive and took a different approach to Kepler's designs that were designed to extend one's life. These ones were believed to have the capability to reverse physical aging, while Kepler's technology could only slow it to roughly a quarter of its original rate.
