User blog comment:Aghostintheboat/The Official Roleplay Room/@comment-27797576-20141116193359/@comment-27797576-20141116224001

IC: Because the machines were too advanced to reverse engineer without bringing them all back to Phobos(it's a fast boat, after all, it can't carry that many things in it.), they decide to take a select few(like 3-4) of them back for further study, in case the scientists could learn any princables on how they would work, if they couldn't reverse engineer them.