It was a magnificent view, to see nearly a thousand silverish drones tearing the huge ark apart, sinking their teeth into the ark's hull and ripping the hull plates away bit by bit. Their bright laser beams cut through the heavy hull plates that were over 10,000 years old, slowly removing them from the ark. The dismantling work was not done without precision, however, since the whole purpose of the operation was to study the ark's structure.