Blood on the Asphalt biker
"Where the hell are they going to go? The fleet is gone."
The recording answered her.
"We are initiating the Genesis Protocol. Neo-Angeles was never merely a city, Captain Reyes. It is an Ark. A closed-loop, orbital preservation sphere. We are decoupling from the planetary crust to ascend beyond the contaminated atmosphere."
"Let them float away," Tank grumbled, having walked up behind us. "Good riddance to bad code."
"Tank, listen," I hushed him, my hacker's intuition screaming that the math was wrong. "A city the size of Neo-Angeles can't break orbit on standard repulsors. The mass is too high. They need a localized singularity."