The Abandoned Luna's Return
—a heavy, red lever protected by a glass box.
And then, I looked at the window.
Beyond the dark sea of servers, a single, tiny light was moving.
It wasn't a Syndicate ship. It was a **Rocket**.
A 1990s-style space shuttle, white and clunky, was rising from the surface of the planet, heading toward the orbital ring.
"The 'Originals'..." I whispered. "They're not in the servers."
"What?" Aris wheezed.
"The 'Hard-Vault' isn't a digital sector," I realized, the truth hitting me with a sudden, brilliant clarity. "You 'Stitched' them into a **Physical Vessel**! You sent them into space before the Syndicate could reach them!"