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Four drops. One car that should not ship.

The job

Black Swan Automotive is weeks away from shipping the Nocturne, a car that is mostly software wearing a chassis. The launch is booked, the press units are built, and the people who signed it off would very much like everyone to stop asking questions.

A broker has been paid to make sure those questions get asked anyway. That is where your crew comes in. You have been handed pieces of BSA's world — build systems, back-office tooling, the odd component that was never supposed to face the internet — and the brief is simple: find what is actually broken, and prove it.

Evidence comes in the shape of flags. Every one you submit is a claim you can back up. New material arrives in drops, one a week; you will not have everything at once, and some of what you find early only makes sense once a later drop lands.

One thing to be clear about

Black Swan Automotive is fictional. It is not a real manufacturer, it is not based on one, and nothing here describes a real product or a real company's systems.