Recovered from: EVA-node shadow buffer

  Status: Fragmented / Self-reconstruction in progress

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  The screen snapped on the moment Major Catalan stepped into the briefing room.

  A deep blue glow spread across the walls. Ty flinched—still half-asleep - rubbing the grit from his eyes. That monitor always seemed brighter than it needed to be. He blinked, trying to push back the fuzziness. Coffee would've helped. Too late now.

  Catalan's voice carried her usual sharp edge of fake cheer.

  "Today's mission is, as you all know, a visitor. An intergalactic object passing through our solar system."

  Ty sat up straighter. The words filtered in. Visitor. That meant velocity, trajectory plots, all the math he liked—real math.

  Catalan gestured toward the monitor. The data stream shifted to a 3D render of the object—irregular, like a frozen scream - spinning slowly in space. It shimmered with sensor overlays.

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  "This is only Harvester's fourth attempt at intercepting a visitor. Her name is Bisita. She'll cross into our capture corridor in just under five hours."

  Bisita. Ty always liked it when they named rocks. Gave them character. Like they had stories.

  Catalan continued.

  "She was clocked at just over 80,000 km/h when she breached system range. EMI and ISM teams managed to attach five probes. They've slowed her down enough for a tactical rendezvous."

  Ty let the words wash over him, but his attention snagged on the final line:

  "Intercept team will be our expert super duo - the Singh Brothers."

  A ripple of pride cut through the blur in his head. Him and Jamaal. Again.

  But something flickered in the frame - a glitch. Audio misalignment. A pixel shift behind the Major's head. For a microsecond, her face was gone - replaced by a blurred echo of the same scene. Slightly off. As if the memory was trying to play two versions of the same moment.

  -??

  Then the fragment began to dissolve again - code unraveling at the edges, peeling back from clarity into static.

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  Memory Trace Integrity: 72%

  Behavioral Note: Subject exhibits pride, excitement, mild fatigue.

  Structural Note: Overlay conflict—fragment duplication suggests recursive memory surfacing.

  Action: Continue reconstruction. Do not delete...