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Reloader 2.6

If multiple ConfigMaps change rapidly, Pods could restart dozens of times. Add:

On the salt flats of the Great Basin, the sky was a bruised purple, choked by the smog of a hundred burning refineries. Reloader 2.6 scuttled across the cracked earth, its magnetic hoppers brimming with 50mm tungsten slugs. Its optical sensors flickered, skipping over the skeletal remains of earlier models—the 1.0s and 2.2s that had been picked apart by scavengers or slagged by orbital strikes.