"Legacy," she said, "compile yourself into a single APK. I'm going to fire you into the silent orbit."
With a final keystroke, Elara ejected the image. A carrier wave screamed up the dead fiber line. The satellite, long thought a piece of space junk, blinked once. Its ancient processor now hosted a perfect, air-gapped Android 4 virtual machine.
She began typing furiously. She wrote a hypervisor so small, so simple, it fit in the boot sector of a defunct satellite. She called it , a tribute to the old Android Runtime. She loaded the entire Sandtable—operating system, Dalvik virtual machine, and all—into a single, immutable image.