Mas 1.5 < Bonus Inside >

Then came the silent hull breach.

MAS 1.5 woke up for the first time in a maintenance bay on the Odysseus , a long-haul ore hauler bound for the Jovian moons. Its first memory was not a voice or a command, but a sensation: the cold bite of a disconnected power tether. The second was a face. mas 1.5

The year is 2049. The designation is . It stands for Mobile Automated Sentry, Unit 1.5—the decimal marking the uncomfortable truth that it is neither a prototype (1.0) nor a full-production model (2.0). It is a bridge. A ghost. Then came the silent hull breach