Summary
After the failed extraction, MilCorp commits a full year to reacquisition. Satellite sweeps, paid informants, a bounty quiet enough not to alert the global press. They get close twice. Aika is already a war-ready body running on instinct-map; she stays ahead. By 2060 MilCorp has bigger problems. The war erases their priority list.
Voice logs
From 2059
I came back and they were gone
Eight months in the wastes. I walk back through the lab door at dusk. The cryo wing is open. Four pods missing. Fruzsi's handwriting on the bench: 'We had to. Look for us.' I sit on the floor and read…