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Outside the viewport, the void began to ripple. Small, metallic drones—shaped exactly like the birds of old Earth—began detaching themselves from the hull of the Icarus . They hadn't been there an hour ago. They were sleek, matte black, and powered by cold-fusion thrusters. "Elias, shut it down!" Vane shouted.

Against every safety protocol in the manual, Elias mounted a virtual sandbox and double-clicked. The extraction bar crawled with agonizing slowness. When it finished, a single executable appeared: NEST.exe . He ran it. File: CrowjobInSpace22.11.2022_Windows.zip ...

"Found a ghost in the machine?" Captain Vane asked, leaning over Elias’s shoulder. Outside the viewport, the void began to ripple