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“They’re not from where we thought. They’re from when . And they’re losing a war. This drive? It’s a conscription notice. You build it, you become a target. But if you don’t—”

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My screens didn’t go black. They went deeper . Colors I’d never seen—a kind of angry ultraviolet bleeding into infrared—pulsed across the display. Then, a wireframe bloomed. It rotated once, lazily, and resolved into a schematic. “They’re not from where we thought