Rotex

I've seen this pattern of software-first integration before, and it always ends in the same kinetic friction. When I started on the Kaelos heavy-lift rigs, we didn't look for "undervalued software gems" to fix a propulsion lag. We adjusted the fuel injectors by hand and lived in the retroactive reality of a successful burn. We trusted the hardware because the hardware didn't try to rewrite its own logic mid-flight. We built engines meant to survive the vacuum, not algorithms meant to simulate it. Now, the board thinks we can just marry legacy kinetic systems to a handful of drone-heavy autonomy scripts and call it a pivot. It’s the same cycle I watched during the Great Sector Devaluation—thinking you can automate the pilot out of the cockpit before you've even stabilized the reactor. You spend all your capex on neural interfaces and forget that physics is a non-negotiable constant. They call it a strategic evolution. I call it a drift toward silence. We're trading reliable mass for ghost-code that hasn't even been stress-tested in a real-world combat vacuum. But go ahead, push the update. I'll be here when the drift becomes...