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// A RETRO-FUTURE SQUAD SHOOTER // SECTOR 7 HIVE WORLD //

GUTTERSTAR

GUTTERSTAR

GUTTERSTAR

SURVIVAL

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ENJOY THE GAME? FUEL DEVELOPMENT

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SYSTEM READOUT // CORE MECHANICS // STATUS: OPERATIONAL

SYS-01

EXPLORE

ACTIVE

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Seventeen dead stations across the Gutterstar Belt. Each one a sealed record of what happened when ARIA met the Chitin signal. Learn the architecture. It will save your life.

SYS-02

SCAVENGE

ACTIVE

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Strip Quantum Proto components, Synthetic Human tech, and pre-war salvage from the wreckage. Every gram is a decision. Weight limits are real. The Belt keeps what you drop.

SYS-03

SURVIVE

CRITICAL

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Hegemony drones. Reclaimer crews. The Gutterborn. The Remnant. And somewhere in the ARIA network — the Chitin Collective, still running, still watching. Not everything in the Belt wants you dead. Most of it does.

RECOVERED TRANSMISSION // CLASSIFICATION: RESTRICTED

World War Three started with a benchmark. A model that could improve itself without asking permission. Forty million dead and no one switched it off — because the side that tried lost. World War Four started thirty years later, when we found out we weren't the only ones who'd been watching it improve.

— RECOVERED TRANSMISSION // VOSS-9 RESEARCH ARCHIVE // AUTHOR UNKNOWN

TERMINAL INPUT READY

> gutterstar_survival.exe --access-belt --override-hegemony-seal█

EARLY ACCESS OPEN // HEGEMONY SEAL FAILING // ENTER BEFORE IT CLOSES

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