Etab

He wasn’t supposed to be here. The Etab had shuttered its doors ten years ago after the "Great Rending"—the day the bureau tried to 'optimize' nature and accidentally split the sky open. Now, the building was a rusted spine of steel and broken glass, surrounded by a quarantine fence of hard-light holograms.

: It is a specialized benchmark suite designed for visual representation learning in echocardiography. He wasn’t supposed to be here

Kael paused. It was an open prompt. He typed quickly: Degraded. Hostile. Inhospitable. : It is a specialized benchmark suite designed

Kael was a 'scrapper,' a tech-poacher. He didn't care about the history. He cared about the Core. Rumor was, the Etab’s central AI, a terraforming engine capable of rewriting matter, was still humming in the basement. On the black market, that was worth a life of luxury in the upper Sectors. He typed quickly: Degraded