I was outside the Mesh, at the edge of the Decentralized Zone. In thirteen minutes there’d be a satellite overpass so I could do a quick local reup and then truesync with the core when I got to the nearest shard, but until I got on the Mesh again I wasn’t exactly sure where’d that be. The rough thicket gave way to gravel and a field of solar panels glinting in the gloaming. A control tower winked its orange iris beacon. I stayed in the wild grass along the edge, calibrating my thermals and ch...