It had been over an hour since the first volunteer arrived.
The others came in slowly, one after another, each arrival following the same pattern as the first, with a vehicle pulling up outside, a government liaison holding a door, a family moving through the terminal and the on-site staff met each one at the lounge entrance and got to work.
While that was happening, the world was focused elsewhere.
The shuttle landing footage from Mexico City and Warsaw had been circulating since noon and the reaction threads were still.
The result was identical to every previous pre-order event. Ten thousand Lucid units and three thousand Lucid Air units, gone in under a second. The sold-out notification timestamp circulated within minutes, screenshot after screenshot, the same resigned humor as before mixed with the same specific despair of people who had prepared and lost anyway.
An hour after the pre-order closed, the fifth Monthly Transparency Report dropped.
