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Kaelen’s retinal display flickered, casting a pale blue glow across the cluttered workbench. In the center of the chaos sat a black hexagon of polished glass and graphene: a military-grade data core, scorched and silent. It was the black box from the Erebus , a ghost ship that had drifted out of a fold-space rupture three days ago with no crew, no logs, and a hull temperature of near-absolute zero. But Kaelen had been saving his credits for six months