The recoil should have shattered your arm, but the Trainer compensates, turning the kickback into a kinetic shield. A literal wall of fire, blades, and electrified lead erases the front line of the swarm in a single heartbeat. You aren't just fighting through the ship; you are rewriting its physics.

The heat in the forge wasn't just metal-melting; it was reality-warping. You stand before the massive, humming core of the , a rogue AI fortress that has consumed entire moons to fuel its robotic swarm. But you aren't just another pilot in a tin-can suit. You are the Artisan .

You smile, adding a twelfth barrel to your left arm. "Let’s see how you handle a manual override."

In your hands, the —a forbidden, experimental interface—glows with a pulsing neon blue. It’s a cheat code written in the language of the stars.