Dawn broke over the Bureau laboratory as Maya carefully examined the device recovered from Nexus Tower. After hours of delicate work, she had disassembled it into its component parts without triggering any destructive failsafes—a concern with evidence of this sophistication.
The device was approximately the size of a hardcover book, with an elegant, almost artistic housing that belied its sinister purpose. Maya's fingers traced the unusual acoustic mesh covering one side, feeling the precision engineering in its pattern. Her equipment displayed the visual representations of sound waves as they would pass through this mesh, creating stunning fractal patterns that she recognized from her analysis of previous attacks.
"It's definitely the same signature," she signed to the interpreter who s
