@thewizardguythe sergeant types away, the designs and power routing systems cataloged for future study before the drones could detect jamming equipment coming online at various points along the planet, the shielding dropped briefly as they receive a message [scan authorized, all remaining scanable points are free for inspection.] as satellite after satellite is launched at the emperor's planets, the launching device housing them appearing to function similarly to his drone carriers, his scanning equipment being rerouted so that he could scan each one as it was loaded and prepared for launch by the surprisingly computer-savvy captain, each one functioning exactly the same except for one which seems to also house a turret defense system/mining equipment, the explanation being transmitted to him as it being shipped to an asteroid field rather than to one of his planets with an authorization key for him to collect appropriate taxes from it's activities. Though if questioned as to where she got the system map for his empire, she simply replies with 'from a billboard on the station in the trade and shipping section'
"it appears as though we've finally found some agreeable terms for this situation at least. though the matter of trade still requires debate. Our energy, food, and base resource goods are higher quality than those reported by captain Elecia's crew from their journeys to your station. however your use of robotics and technology are quite fascinating. if you would be willing to part with some of your notes that we don't have then i'm sure i can arrange for a number of shipments to be delivered to your nearest stations in proportion to how useful your notes are" the sergeant says evenly, seeming to be typing away at a few different terminals at a time at a pace and efficiency that would at least demand some small measure of respect considering her brain appeared to be unaltered in any visible way.
While this is all going on of course, the drones find that they're only really able to scan basic weaponry carried by civilians that happened to be working either at mining, massive agricultural, or trade facilities all of which didn't really reveal much aside from that they had a logistical sense that put his to shame, their agricultural expanses being augmented by various scientific and mystical means, alowing for harvest after harvest as the plants would grow only minutes after the scythe had collected their predecessors, ranching being much similar with their population specialized around the tasks they preformed, meaning ranches had a sub-society within the farming town that could self sustain if cut off from all others but still remained highly productive in their assigned duties. The civil research facilities however reveal nothing of import as the things they're researching are just as foreign to matt as his ships were to the sergals. Although, the truely wonderous things he finds is from the scans of the trade sections, showing such a wide array of goods that betrayed an incredibly vast and most likely multi-dimensional society, their goods of the highest quality by his standards, but of only average quality by their own, showing a constant striving to improve at whatever they did as well as further cementing the sergeant's claims of better quality goods. Though large portions of the cities defences are voided from scans due to jamming equipment, they are allowed to scan the more common defenses which seem to be large energy cannons that appeared to constantly be in a state of at least minimal power, allowing for constant ground coverage as well as EMP cannons that seemed to have been powered down to avoid showing hostile intent but looked to be able to fire as far as deep orbit. Although there is a funny occurence where a newly built frigate is launched with an incredibly efficient design with what appears to be a carrier mentality as corvettes could be detected within hidden bay doors while it's main cannon seemed to have incredible power potential with it's shields actually comparable to the planetary ones with a multi layer to them, preventing shield piercing shots from being effective though it did seem to support retractable turrets for countering fighters.
