PATIENT ZERO -The lone survivor
It was a spasm of endless, waking agony.
"Why?" Baraka asked, his voice shaking with a rage so profound it felt like a physical weight in the room. "Why does he need the crystals?"
"For power," Eliana said, pulling up a manifest file. "The calcified Star-Code is the most dense, volatile energy source on the planet. Look at the shipping logs, Baraka. 'Yield from Subject 042: sufficient to power three Mark-IV exoskeletons.' 'Yield from Subject 018: refined into fifty neural-synaptic inhibitor collars.'"