ISSUE 01 · COVER + FOUR PAGES
Every Exit Has an Owner
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COVER: MindVector #01. Every Exit Has an Owner. playmindvector.com. Synthesized By QvxSphere.
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Panel 1 · CAPTION: Hikari Reach. Forty million people. Four elevators.
Panel 1 · CAPTION: One owner.
Panel 2 · CAPTION: Bay Nine. Authentic Random's prototype hangar. Night shift.
Panel 3 · CAPTION: Ren Amano has kept this ship alive for two years. He has never been allowed to sit in it.
Panel 3 · REN: There's not even a seat.
Panel 4 · YUNA: You're talking to the ship again.
Panel 4 · REN: It listens.
Panel 4 · YUNA: If only you would for me!
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Panel 1 · YUNA: Ninety-two complaints today. Forty about elevator fees. One about a haunted vending machine.
Panel 1 · REN: Was it haunted?
Panel 1 · YUNA: Not like that crazy ship they got you working on, but still, I upheld it.
Panel 2 · CAPTION: Six years ago.
Panel 2 · TETSU: Dead Mind. AR scrapped it for a reason.
Panel 2 · REN: AR scraps anything it can't control.
Panel 3 · REN: My Mind can fly all the simulations blind now. Six years I've been working on it, Yuna.
Panel 3 · YUNA: In your bedroom.
Panel 4 · REN: It's a great bedroom...
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Panel 1 · MIND: Run 4,112. I flew us through the Dawn Harbor tether.
Panel 1 · REN: Through?
Panel 1 · MIND: Around. Mostly.
Panel 3 · REN: What do you think it's like outside the Hikari star system?
Panel 3 · MIND: Statistically? Crowded. Our local cluster has hundreds of catalogued stars. But the catalogue stops at the perimeter. Past it are dark regions AR never charted...
Panel 4 · MIND: I've modelled thousands of them. Some should have oceans under the ice. Some should have skies that never get dark. Two suns. Three... The dark is not necessarily empty...
Panel 4 · MIND: ...a world with violet tides... Ren?
Panel 4 · MIND: ...Ren.
Panel 4 · SFX: zzz
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Panel 1 · SFX: BWEEP BWEEP
Panel 1 · MIND: Ren. It's Yuna. Priority channel. Wake up.
Panel 1 · SCREEN: PRIORITY CALL · Y. SATO
Panel 2 · YUNA / INTERCOM: Ren, listen. They're moving me off-planet. Tonight.
Panel 2 · YUNA / INTERCOM: The higher-ups signed it. I don't get a say.
Panel 2 · REN: Where?
Panel 2 · YUNA / INTERCOM: They won't tell me.
Panel 3 · YUNA / INTERCOM: Ren, I lo—
Panel 3 · SFX: KZZT
Panel 3 · SCREEN: CONNECTION TERMINATED
Panel 3 · REN: YUNA!
Panel 4 · REN: Mind. Pack everything. All six years.
Panel 4 · MIND: Ren... the door.
Panel 4 · SFX: BANG BANG BANG
Panel 4 · PA: AUTHENTIC RANDOM SECURITY. OPEN THE DOOR.
Panel 4 · CAPTION: NEXT WEEK: #02 · DEAD ON PAPER