"Relax. I’m the extraction team," she said, lowering her hood to reveal a scar running down the side of her face. "They know you have the file. They know what it contains."
Dr. Mira Chen stared at the file on her screen. It had appeared three days ago in the secure server of the North American Deep-Space Relay Array—no sender, no metadata, just a name that looked like a corrupted Switch game dump but felt like a tombstone. Eastward -010071B00F63A800--v589824--US-.nsp.rar