BAV99: THE TINY GUARDIAN OF OUR TECH PLANETS

A Meeting in the Circuit Desert The desert of old circuit boards stretched endlessly, sun beating down on forgotten gadgets. I was lost, tracing the outline of a broken microcontroller, when I saw it—a small, glinting shape, no bigger than a ladybug, half-buried in sand. “You’re… very small,” I said, kneeling. “And you’re a