Aris sat in the dark, the antenna array humming softly in the next room. Outside, the stars were indifferent. But the driver was not. It had learned. It was still learning. And somewhere in the cold, dark silence of Sector 9G-7J, something was learning back.
And it was listening to something.
Dr. Aris Thorne stared at the frozen terminal. The error code scrolled past, a cascade of hexadecimal despair: [FATAL] MPE-AX3000H: firmware signature mismatch. Halt. Mpe-ax3000h Driver
