"Kaliyan," Sasha says through the comm, "Please kill non-essential power, now. If we're going to fake a grid crash, that needs to happen stat."

She goes ahead and wipes the virus while she's waiting. She thinks she has enough to fake a single report, and she really doesn't like the wriggling. An air-gapped mini-grid is getting higher on her mental shopping list by the second.

[What would Sasha make of the second ship's markings? Past, future, hometown dialect, alternate universe?]