The glowing status bar on the terminal pulsed a rhythmic, sickly green:

Kael grabbed the flash drive, ripping it from the port. OUTRIDERS.part08.rar was no longer just a file; it was a death warrant, and the hunt had officially begun.

The screen flickered. Instead of a standard folder structure, a video feed jerked to life. It wasn't a recording from the planet Enoch's surface, but from the cryobays during the initial jump. The footage was grainy, distorted by the Anomaly’s interference. It showed a high-ranking ECA official standing over a cryo-pod—Kael’s pod.