Last Light

Alexis Chen monitors from the orbital station seventeen months after Kate Morrison sealed the dimensional breach. Haunted by the absence and managing a skeptical budget committee, Alexis maintains her obsessive watch.

Warp route readings spiking. Something is pushing against reality fabric from the other side. Nigel: "The seal is weakening. After 200 years, something is finally breaking through."

Kate, age 9, serves as humanity's primary early warning system against the Hollowing. She receives warning 17 minutes before incursion at Station Meridian cargo bay and works with guardian Chelsea and response teams to contain breach.

Alexis Chen argues before the Unified Council for offering Dominion survivors a choice: submission for integration or exile to the outer systems. She frames the decision around Kate's sacrifice and belief in humanity's capacity for mercy.

Team arrives on Echo-Seven discovering sterile settlement with forty buildings. Following Team 2 beacon, they find automated transmitter broadcasting for fourteen months and Team 2 habitat with warm coffee and book left open, indicating instantaneous disappearance.

Admiral Rylee Voss stands at the command bridge of the *Resolute* with her final fleet assembly: 347 ships gathered for the largest battle against the Dominion armada (~1200+ vessels). She authorizes Operation Lighthouse, giving Kate Morrison her path to the warp nexus.

Chelsea navigates increasingly unstable corridors with breathing walls and impossible geometry. The team encounters black, living ooze that nearly consumes them—Chelsea engineers an emergency escape using environmental vents.

Lucas considers his worsening wound as the team prepares for the city assault. Chelsea discovers station schematics showing an alternate route to a secondary docking facility. Nigel finds records of a Fist operative dispatched to the moon who vanished in the lower levels.

Team descends into crystalline plaza and encounters a massive swarm of winged creatures. After intense firefight, they reach the hangar only to discover their dropship destroyed by something far larger.