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He disconnected power. Pulled the hard drive. Placed it in a static-shielded bag. Then he sat in the dark, listening to the cooling fans spin down.

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A ghost in the machine. Waiting for the next desperate engineer at 3:47 AM.

On day fifteen, a dialog box appeared at 4 AM: "License integrity check failed. Remote validation required. Some functions will be disabled in 72 hours unless connected to Intergraph licensing server." He disconnected power

Marcus nodded. His heart beat like a stuck solenoid.

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"Good. Export everything to PDF. Delete the source project after. They don’t need to know what software we used."