Fail: Carrier P5-7

Mira ignored the corpse—she had learned long ago that sentiment was a luxury in hard vacuum—and focused on the pod’s control panel. The screen was cracked but still glowing. Lines of text scrolled upward, too fast to read. She plugged her suit’s data probe into the pod’s auxiliary port, and the text froze.

“Show me,” she said.

“Could be a software handshake issue,” Dex offered, though his tone lacked conviction. He was already pulling up diagnostic logs on his own tablet. “Maybe the node just… reset.” carrier p5-7 fail

Then she saw it.