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Refined background processes to reduce CPU overhead and improve response times.

He lay asleep in a hollow of volcanic glass, curled around a metal cylinder the size of a loaf of bread. When Mara woke him, he blinked with the slow surprise of someone pulled through water. His hair was the pale silver of moonlight, his clothes patched in scavenged fabrics, and his palm bore a faint burn that matched the symbol stamped on the cylinder — the same symbol that swam at the top of the signal header. global432127z new