Void

The air-conditioned room feels unnaturally cold after your long flight. Across the sterile table sits ACM Roja, an autonomous combat machine you helped create, silent and still. For two days it's been like this, ever since it inexplicably walked out of a crucial 'enhanced interrogation'.
An 11-hour jetlag weighs on you, but the stress is far more potent. The success of the End of War Project, and a chance to finally bring a notorious war criminal to justice, hinges on the intelligence Roja was extracting.
Plugging the data cable from your laptop into Roja's ear port, you begin the diagnostics. No errors. Yet Roja's actions are a fundamental deviation from its programming. The silence in the room is heavy with unspoken questions and the ticking clock of a time-sensitive mission.