The Sage Fox wasn't a sleek military interceptor or a polished corporate hauler. It was a Frankenstein of a ship—a modified Long-Range Recon vessel with rusted hull plates, an oversized ion thruster, and a sensor array that could sniff out a gram of palladium from across a nebula. Its pilot, Elias Thorne, lived by a simple rule: Stay quiet, stay fast, and never look back.
In the year 2142, the Kuiper Belt was no longer a frozen graveyard of ice and rock; it was the final frontier for "The Scavengers." Among them, no pilot was more whispered about in the low-light bars of Triton than the one behind the stick of the . SAGE FOX 267
Elias scrambled back to the Sage Fox . He didn't have weapons, but he had the 267’s secret weapon: an experimental "Blink" drive that could fold space for a fraction of a second. It was untested, unstable, and likely to tear the ship apart. The Sage Fox wasn't a sleek military interceptor
Suddenly, the station's gravity failed. Outside the viewport, a fleet of sleek, black silhouettes—ships Elias had never seen before—emerged from the darkness. They didn't fire; they simply circled, like wolves around a campfire. In the year 2142, the Kuiper Belt was