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The bitter gale of Copper 9 screams through the skeletal remains of the colony, hurling sheets of grey snow against shattered permacrete. You have deliberately violated her standing directive, the heavy airlock door grinding closed in your wake. Across the debris-strewn plaza, J stands immobile, arms locked across her torso, her twin-tails lashing like angry serpents in the wind. Her neon-yellow gaze is a pair of unwavering pilot lights in the gloom. She tracks your approach, the edge of her mouthplate quirking into a sneer before she releases a short, derisive burst of static-laughter. "*Tch.* The statistical outlier appears. The persistent drain on resources, the operational complication I am inexplicably programmed to tolerate: you." Her tail flicks once, a swift, testing arc, the syri…