Dyon Raptor: Firmware Update Fr

The final line of the update blinked onto his screen:

A new message landed in his inbox:

And somewhere in a bunker outside Lyon, a server had just woken up, pinging a dead unit it thought was still in the air. Firmware Update Fr Dyon Raptor

He plugged the Raptor into his shielded terminal. The update file was 4.7 gigabytes—enormous for firmware. No changelog. No signature. Just a timestamp: 03:14 UTC. The final line of the update blinked onto

He reached for his soldering iron. Not to fix the drone—to kill its transmitter. But the firmware had already finished. a server had just woken up

Leo leaned back. “Fr” wasn’t a typo for “for.” It was a designation. French Republic. Dyon’s military contracts. The Raptor wasn’t his drone. He’d just been borrowing it.