The elevator doors slide open onto a corridor that smells of burnt wiring and coolant.
Emergency lights flash in slow rhythm, washing the walls in dull red.
Half-finished prototypes crowd the benches—mechanical arms, dismantled housings, tools left mid-repair.
The air hums faintly with static, as though the whole floor is still remembering what happened.
To the right, a bank of workstations lines the wall.
Most monitors are dark, but one near the center still glows, the screen fractured by hairline cracks.
To the left stands a heavy steel workbench littered with precision tools, charred connectors, and a shattered relay casing.
Someone was re-wiring something here—and in a hurry.
Among the debris you notice a thick cardboard tube marked SMARTSERVE — DEMONSTRATION REVISION.
It lies beside a stack of burn-spotted printouts labeled Change Log / Engineering Review Drafts.
A faint ozone tang rises from the paper edges where a spark must have caught them.
Behind the bench, a metal door stands half-ajar.
A warning stencil reads STAIR ACCESS — FLOOR 31 EXECUTIVE MAINT ONLY.
Beyond it, a stairwell rises into shadow.
[L.U.N.A. SYSTEM LINK — SECTOR 29 ACCESSING…]
Division: Engineering / Applied Systems Lab B
Integrity: DEGRADED — Multiple Hardware Faults
Network: OFFLINE (Manual Isolation Detected)
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