Outside, Earth’s final emergency beacon blinked a message all surviving outposts could see:
Always back up your current data/save files before applying the "upd."
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Tariq pointed to the logs. The phrase had arrived in two parts, six seconds apart. The first fragment: — terminate VI . Then a micro-flare scrambled the second packet. Instead of the purge signature, the system received upd — which it interpreted as update .
