The maintenance window was two hours. He’d done this a hundred times.

Marco’s heart didn’t just skip a beat—it flatlined. He waited. Thirty seconds. A minute. Two minutes. The controller should have been back by now. The fans on Icarus were silent. The link lights on the uplink port were dark.

Nothing. Not a single line of boot text. No POST. No “Press any key to stop autoboot.” Just a cold, indifferent black screen.

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