"Standard weapon protocols are for the weak," you mutter, slamming a chaotic assortment of rocket pods, sawblade launchers, and lightning coils onto your wrist-mounted chassis. The Trainer hums, bypassing the ship's safety limiters. Normally, this many attachments would melt a suit’s power grid, but the Trainer forces the energy to flow, creating a weapon that looks more like a metal briar patch than a gun.

You smile, adding a twelfth barrel to your left arm. "Let’s see how you handle a manual override."

In your hands, the —a forbidden, experimental interface—glows with a pulsing neon blue. It’s a cheat code written in the language of the stars.

As you dive deeper into the metallic gut of the MOTHERGUNSHIP, the AI’s voice booms, confused and flickering. It cannot calculate your damage output. It cannot predict your fire rate. To the machine mind, you have become a glitch in its perfect genocide.