The fallout was immediate. Helix Dynamics faced massive legal action, forced to halt its illegal experiments and pay reparations to the moon’s indigenous microbial ecosystem. Governments worldwide imposed stricter regulations on quantum field manipulations, and AetherLens, once a fledgling startup, became the most valuable company on the planet overnight.
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