[X] Before responding;
-[X] Extend Base Crystal (with the usual Asm.M.-first discount) five units out from the top of the prison (forming a disc), making it slightly harder for the prison's Armite to engulf you should it suddenly become Manawarped Armite guided by an intelligence.
-[X] Convert a Base Crystal near your Core into a Repair Crystal, just in case the consequences hurt you but don't disable you.
-[X] Convert a couple Base Crystals bordering the Armite into Absorption Crystals. This is a little expensive, and rather insufficient, but it should at least buy time by draining Armite of energy.
[X] Respond with type identifier, but not your entire name yet, as the Unit did (Unintentionally-Lost Xenotech-Specialist/Experimentals-Researcher True Crystalline.)
-[X] Answer the Unit's question; you have no idea how the Thanocracy is, where it is, or indeed, if it isn't instead. You have seen potential evidence of it in the form of battle remnants and this place, but nothing conclusive.