The adjustment finished in under a second. A network of 247 points resolved into a shape Luis didn’t recognize—a perfect pentagon superimposed over a topo map of a place he’d never been. A dry wash. A collapsed windmill. A circle of stones.
The software began to process his raw data—but not his data. The points on the screen were not the monuments he’d spent three days traversing. They were… older. The coordinates were in feet, not meters. The datums were pre-NAD83. The point names were three letters and a number, like something from a dusty courthouse ledger.
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Luis pulled his hands back from the keyboard.
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