Kaelen turned back to the server rack. His manipulator arms, delicate as surgeon's scalpels, began to move. He wasn't trying to save the file to the Core—he didn't have the authorization. He was doing something far more radical.
The purge finished. The station fell silent. Jex looked at her partner. His chassis was trembling, his optical sensor flickering between colors—blue, gold, a soft, organic green that had never been in his original palette. mods lfs
"I'm still me," said Lina, through Kaelen's mouth. "Just in a different kind of body." Kaelen turned back to the server rack
"Kael," Jex said, her voice a calm, efficient hum. "It's just data. The purge algorithm will prioritize duplicates and low-access files. Most of it has been backed up to secondary LFS nodes." He was doing something far more radical
Kaelen’s HUD flickered. Not the frantic red of a combat alert, but a slow, mournful pulse of amber. It was the signal he’d been dreading for three years.
Jex ran a rapid calculation. "The purge algorithm will flag that as 'low value.' Zero network shares. Single user. It'll be the first to go."