The timestamp was from three hours ago. While Elias had been lying awake in bed.

"Echo-3, you're breaking formation. Echo-3? He just… he flew into the singularity. On purpose."

Starbreaker: Echoes of the Void.

Alec_2013. He knew that name. It was a user on a PS3 homebrew forum who had disappeared years ago. People said he'd had a seizure while playing a modded copy of Minecraft and never recovered. That was just a grim forum myth. Wasn't it?

The fan on his PS3, usually a quiet whisper, revved up to a low turbine whine. That was odd. PKG installs were decompression and file copying; they didn’t stress the GPU like a game. He felt the top of the console. It was hot. Unusually hot.

The void had remembered him. And it was downloading something new.