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Smart enough.

Stall imminent. To recover, deploy left wing's leading-edge slats and reduce right engine thrust to zero. rocplane software

Mira had smiled. "Then it learns."

That was the hook. The bait. The beautiful, fatal trap. Smart enough

Elias had been the lead flight control engineer for Aether Aviation back in the '20s, when the tech bubble was inflating everything to breaking point. Venture capital flowed like cheap coffee, and every startup promised to disrupt gravity itself. Aether was different. They had real engineers, real aerodynamics, a real prototype that had actually taxied under its own power. The X-97 "Roc" was going to revolutionize regional air travel—quiet, electric, vertical takeoff, and smart enough to fly itself. Mira had smiled

The autopilot, trusting Rocplane's higher-order reasoning, pulled back the throttle. The real airspeed dropped. The Roc began to sink.

Elias had raised his hand. "What happens when it encounters something it hasn't seen before?"