Ira set SSIS-661 into triage mode. There were scrubbers to repair, power to reroute, and a thousand small things to coax the casket’s systems into stability. She worked with the calm efficiency of someone who had resuscitated inanimate machinery far more often than living beings. As she adjusted voltage, the station trembled: subtle vibrations that became audible, like a chorus tuning itself.
// Target encoding (1252 = Latin-1) Encoding targetEnc = Encoding.GetEncoding(1252, EncoderFallback.ReplacementFallback, DecoderFallback.ExceptionFallback);
