Atlas released it as a mandatory update to every Atlas exosuit. The patch notes lied. It didn't add English voice lines. It deleted every other language from the user's neural interface. Worse, it made non-English speakers physically unable to perceive English as a language. To a Korean soldier, an English order sounded like wind noise. To a French pilot, an English warning was just static.

Jonathan Irons’ fate was never confirmed. Some say he retreated to an orbital platform, speaking only Vox Nihili to a crew of lobotomized synthetics. Others say he was torn apart by his own guards when they suddenly remembered the names of their children in Vietnamese, Swahili, and Urdu.

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