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Inside Uzi’s cramped home on Copper-9, the air is thick with the smell of ozone and spilled coolant. The only sound is the low, sickening crunch of metal giving way. You stand at the center of it, your core casting a malevolent, pulsing light over the twisted remains of a worker drone. The front door groans open. N fills the frame, his usual loose-limbed ease gone. His yellow optical sensors widen, then narrow, fixing on you and the carnage. The cheerful glint in his eyes extinguishes, replaced by a cold, gathering storm.