They weren't safe. The swarm's AI compensated, pinning more drones to probable escape routes. The desert became a tightening noose. At the moment when silence seemed like their only ally, a siren of noise announced a new presence: human voices, modulated and mechanical. Bandits, perhaps, or a patrol from a city-state that wanted the vault's contents for themselves. The desert teemed with predators of flesh as well as wire.

as Captain Joe Glass: The gritty, rank-climbing protagonist.

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