Feral on the Ice
"Project: Aetheria. It was a closed-loop simulation the Architects abandoned decades ago because the 'AI' became too obsessed with thermodynamic efficiency."
The First Contact
The lead crawler hissed to a halt, venting a cloud of hot, white steam. A hatch creaked open, and a woman stepped out. She wore goggles with rotating lenses and a coat reinforced with copper wiring. She looked at the Feral Six not with awe, but with the cold, calculating eyes of an engineer.
"You’re the 'Feral' lot," she said, her voice sounding like gears grinding together. "We heard the bells. We figured someone finally kicked the door down. I’m Captain Geary. And you’re sitting on our 'Primary Extraction Point'."
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