On Kereon-9’s night side, an infantry team enters a chemical-fog refinery to destroy an insurgent uplink inside the control vault.

The refinery turns its own machines, mines, drone nests, and security systems against them while a captured warden-frame asset is ordered forward like expendable equipment.

Comms degrade, IFF fails, suit seals weaken, and gravity shear turns every corridor into a moving trap.

This is: "The Expendable" by Sascha Schmidt