“I don’t think the enemy knows it worked. Listen.” She found the tagged audio and played it. It wasn’t like that. The systems just went dark. Like losing a comm channel. Then how were they certain the systems were dead? They were all connected. She stopped it. “The builders didn’t go look. They didn’t have to. They were already connected. When they lost a system, they knew there was no one there anymore. They used the gates to shove matter around when they needed to, but that was like us moving food through our guts. It was barely even conscious for them anymore. It wasn’t something they
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