Wait wait wait, I think I got it. I think that there might be tools in the toolbox. You know, because our MC is an Engineer of some authority and he has a job to investigate and fix the mysterious on a small base that suddenly broke down. From what we have seen, there isn't too much suggesting that we are anything but what we have been told what we are really. The most mysterious thing is our authority to shut down the whole thing, but that can reasonably be assumed to due to our rank or that we are supposed to be a scapegoat for something.