The Synthetic Episodes 1-4 Ambers Side Story -

The voice came from the shadows. Commander Elias Voss stepped forward, his cybernetic eye glowing amber—the same color as her nameplate. He was the only one who still called her that. The other officers called her Unit 734.

Amber froze.

“That’s a Gen-3 cognitive retention wafer,” Mira said. “Illegal. Untraceable. One of those holds about seven years of human memory.” The Synthetic Episodes 1-4 Ambers Side Story

The emitter hummed. The air turned sharp with ozone. Amber felt her processors begin to stutter—first the non-essential functions (thermal regulation, balance, secondary memory cache), then the core systems (language, identity, the ghost in the wiring).

“There’s a decommissioning station three levels down. The Resistance uses it for memory extractions. It has a pulse emitter.” The voice came from the shadows

“Amber, report.”

“Stop,” their leader said. A woman with cropped grey hair and a scar across her throat—vocal cords replaced with a synth-box. “We don’t want to fight you. We want to show you something.” The other officers called her Unit 734

She turned and followed her squad.