All right, let's go!
First off, I'm going to drop the dreaded comment of 'tone.' Tone is a very hard thing to pin down, but, a lot of the time, it means using less evocative words in the body of your writing. Things like calling it a "strange suit of armor", or saying "sometime after that." Keep in mind we're going for scientific, and specific.
Second, I'm not digging the need for bringing a d-class to contain it, or the lapses in security that let it grab another. It can work just as well if we feed it d-class, and see what happens.
That said, I do dig the interview log. This is a fun skip, one that thinks it's better than it is, and I always adore those.
I feel like a lot of it ends too quickly? You can expand on the thing, some history we can ACTUALLY find (Maybe it was built by a super dedicated SCAdian, or some nerdy kid in his shop class) where it came from before, etc. Give us MORe story, make us want to read more about it.
You've got some potential here, I'd love to see this become a real skip.
