POV: Ryker

The security review takes three full days and still does not feel finished.

We pull every access log that touches the service levels, the planning rooms, the sensor junctions, and the outer relay points. We cross-check maintenance tickets against actual work orders. We compare night rotations with the times the older sensors showed soft anomalies that were dismissed as weather or wildlife. The picture that forms is not a single breach. It is a pattern of small, careful touches that stretch farther back than any of us wanted to believe.

I stand in the operations room with the timeline spread across the main board. Zane has color-coded the...