So it's the possibility that the Weapons are a little of both: living but maybe created solely to be controlled. Jack listens carefully to both of the women from the world that these things come from. Garlean, he's never heard of, but this might be the exact thing Bruce was talking about.

Jack's voice falls to a quiet mutter, "This place keeps adapting tech from our worlds. The things that we build or change stay from cycle to cycle. The Weapon could have come here in a previous cycle. Stayed hidden for so long, no one knows how long it's been here? They consider it Ancient Tech."

He tries to discreetly fall in next to K'pandolu, protective of the person without her weapons. Whatever they're reacting to, Jack will join them on the alert, but doesn't know what he's looking for. "What are you seeing?"