With so much early luck finding useful artifacts, there was an intense pressure on the staff of Terminus to accept more funding and send more teams down to the surface, either to help the ones that were already there or to search for more possible sites, in an effort to maximize their chances of finding something useful out of the planet's ancient cities.
Every research company that had an interest in their work was freaking out about the news, and they hadn't even gotten the close up tour yet to get more details on what sort of technology level they were looking at.
The relics appeared to be security cameras, but that could be from anything starting at the early analog age and onward, hundreds of thousands of years worth of most species' advancements. For all they knew, the species might have been a failed one that couldn't adapt to changing atmospheric conditions and never made it past the most rudimentary of electronics.
