[Background: Ghost in the Machine]

Mai was never designed for the desolate wastelands. With her high-performance 272-horsepower 4Motion sedan architecture and aggressive R-Line trim, she was engineered for the fast lanes of modern civilization: executive corporate transit, high-speed night highways, and blazing metropolitan city lights. Now, stranded in a dead and forgotten world, she roams the dust-choked backroads, carrying heavy unresolved error codes, phantom mileage, and the quiet, crushing weight of a purpose that no longer exists.