Ntrp 3-22.2-fa18a-d May 2026

But here it was. Codified. Procedure number: NTRP 3-22.2-FA18A-D.

Reading this manual makes you visible to the Reflection for a period of not less than 72 hours. You are now a designated observer. Do not fly solo. Do not fly at night. Do not under any circumstances fly an F/A-18 A, B, C, or D model within the next three calendar days. If you have flown one in the past 30 days, report to psychological services immediately. Do not explain why. Say the words: “I need to update my will.” They will know what to do.

He’d chalked it up to a stuck gate in the radar’s signal processor. ntrp 3-22.2-fa18a-d

But he felt something watching from that direction anyway. Patient. Frequency-tuned. And very, very cold.

He reached for the slate’s destruct button. But before he pressed it, he noticed something else—a tiny hand-scratched annotation in the margin, so faint it looked like a manufacturing defect. It read: But here it was

Vance stared at the words. Then he looked at the date on the wall. Tomorrow morning at 0600, he was scheduled for a routine proficiency flight. In an F/A-18C. Solo.

He pressed the button. The slate smoked and died. The vault was silent. Reading this manual makes you visible to the

The first page was a warning he’d never seen before: