On Earth, the flight directors watched in horror as the telemetry stream turned into gibberish. The "Reason" field in the error log remained a garbled mess of characters. It wasn't a mechanical failure or a fuel leak. Something in the Martian atmosphere was interacting with the ship's software, rewriting the code in real-time.
"Mission Control, do you copy?" Elias gripped the manual stick, but the hydraulics were unresponsive. The ship wasn't just losing power; it was being erased. Mars HorizonData edycji: 29-12-2022, 18:36PowГіd...
"Descent thrusters at sixty percent," Elias called out, his voice steady despite the rattling of the cockpit. On Earth, the flight directors watched in horror