The captured Protogen laboratory, being rapidly emptied of prisoners, research, supplies, and usable structure before retaliation can arrive.
After the assault, Thoth Station remains damaged but functional long enough for the OPA to control its dangerous research staff. The discovery that Protogen altered many scientists' ethical restraints makes prisoner handling unusually hazardous; Miller finds hidden blades and helps train the youthful assault force in basic restraint procedures.
A second wave of OPA transports and salvage trawlers arrives to move personnel into unlicensed Belt detention, pack the valuable equipment, and dismantle shielding and superstructure. Fred Johnson is treating the station not as a permanent prize but as a site that must be stripped before Protogen's nearer outposts can retaliate.
Thoth is a compact hidden station of white-lit research corridors, carpets, planted displays, and polished laboratories reinforced with blast doors, guard positions, and stripped industrial sections.
Thoth is captured evidence and salvage, too exposed to remain a secure OPA holding for long.