Inside: 3 users. – Status: Tuning > [N]Chrono_Legion – Status: Anchored > [A]Unknown_Signal – Status: ??????

The laptop powered off. When I rebooted, the file was gone. Not deleted. Absent. As if it had unpacked itself into the raw silicon.

cncnet5-yr-installer.exe Size: 342 MB Signed: Westwood Studios / Online Anon. (Expired 2018)

I copied it to a radiation-shielded laptop—a fossil running Windows 10, air-gapped from everything except a salvaged low-orbit satellite relay.