Veld traded a ghost's life for the truth, exposing the thirst of the high-orbit elite before the cold steel of Neo-Kowloon claimed him. He fought through the breach with a broken rivet gun and a desperate, failing ping, dying in the shadow of the server racks he sought to liberate. His final act ensured the ledger reached the mesh, leaving his name etched in the static of a city that never remembers its martyrs.