He also has been studying the ancient Chodak civilization and their ruins on the planet Horst III by 2370. Having discovered samples and artifacts, he sent some isolinear rods to Mertens Orbital Research Station. However unwillingly this caused a Chodak probe to attack the station. Shanok was forced to temporarily abandon his work on Horst III due to a Romulan invasion fleet passing nearby. (TNG video game: A Final Unity)