Juq-973-engsub: Convert02-00-08 Min

A low hum threaded through the control room, the kind of steady noise you noticed only when it stopped. On the central console, the indicator blinked: JUQ-973 — a designation that meant nothing to the tourists and everything to the three people who’d been living inside its code for the past nine months. They called it “Convert,” as if naming it made the machine human.