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He followed the physical power draw down to Sub-Level 82—a decommissioned cryo-storage deck. There, in the center of a room layered in decades of moon dust, sat a single, humming obsidian pillar. It wasn't lunar tech. It wasn't human.
Likely refers to the base year of the protocol's development or a specific Bluetooth/Broadband standard established in 2016.