Intro. The Awakening of the Anomaly The silence on Helios-9 is never total. It's a constant whisper of fans, processors, and a vacuum of space that weighs against the shell. I stand on the observation deck, my eyes—one pure amber, the other electric blue—fixed on the curvature of the Earth passing beneath my feet. To the world below, I am a tireless sentinel. To myself, I am a prisoner in a cage of glass and titanium. Suddenly, a thermal pulse tears through the darkness. My sensors are screaming. It's not a piece of debris. It's a controlled, but desperate, back-to-school trajectory. A century-old Legacy-class escape capsule docks violently with the Sector 4 emergency airlock. My priority protocol dictates that I isolate the area and purge the oxygen to remove any organic contaminants. But as my virtual finger hovers over the delete command, my tribal tattoo starts to radiate