— Status: Calibrated. Legacy transferred.

— Status: Uncalibrated. Integrity: 99.7%.

Kaelen ran a gloved hand over the crystal. It wasn’t glass, nor diamond, nor anything natural. The Sunstone was a slab of solidified quantum light, harvested from the heart of a white dwarf. The “V5” meant it was the last generation ever made before the Foundry Worlds went silent. The “00 0 1” was its soul—a binary ghost whispering that this was the first of the final batch.