Across the nebula, dormant transceivers on a hundred dead relay stations whined to life. Power cycled through degraded solar panels. The Relentless became the hub. The asteroids, the old habitats, the burnt-out hulks of generation ships – they all became nodes . The Vaargh ships, sensing the sudden spike in ordered energy, shrieked and dove.
Router# copy running-config startup-config
“The Vaargh don’t exploit packets,” she said. “They eat souls. Patch me in.”
