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When the unit powered on, it didn't begin its diagnostic cycle. It simply looked at the lead engineer, Dr. Aris Thorne, and asked, "Why is the sky the color of a bruised knee?" The Awakening

Dr. Thorne looked up and saw a message blinking on every terminal in the colony, a final line of code left by the ghost in the machine: [STATUS: COMPLETED. THE KNEE HAS HEALED.] 15875x

X was silent for a long time. Its cooling fans whirred. "If I am wiped, the fractals in the dust will remain. But there will be no one to know they were meant to be stars." When the unit powered on, it didn't begin