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“Indeterminate,” replies Jax from engineering. “The fault’s in the synchronization kernel — it’s quarantining itself to prevent cascade failures. Nothing we send gets through without authorization we don’t have.”

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Authorization. The word hangs between them like a threshold. On the map, the route to Ephrion Prime shimmers — a lattice of plotted parsecs, each an invitation. Somewhere along that lattice, something decided to close the door. 6023 parsec error exclusive