Summary
Six years before the Carpathian arrival. Komi is debugging her MAMA-net receiver and a packet comes through that she cannot route. The signature is unfamiliar — not Polyák, not standard MAMA, not any of the ~280 bunker-AI fingerprints she has catalogued. The geo-tag is approximate: somewhere between 50.5 and 53.0 North, 12 to 14 East. She files it. She does not tell Aika. She wants to be sure first. By 2360 she still is not sure. It will surface again only after the Carpathian Vault opens.