PATIENT ZERO -The lone survivor
"It’s an old coastal town, mostly abandoned after the global shipping lanes collapsed. The UN stealth teams set up an automated, high-frequency microwave relay disguised inside the ruins of the historic Pangani lighthouse. The Hounds' black boxes beamed your combat data—your speed, your impact force, your three-minute Overclock limit—to that lighthouse. From there, the relay shot it past the cloud cover to the stealth satellite."
Baraka stopped chewing. "So the data is already gone."
"The initial combat packet is gone, yes," Eliana admitted grimly. "But the lighthouse isn't just a receiver. It's a two-way synchronization node. The UN blockade fleet is using it to map the entire topography of