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We brought the Exodus home after twelve months beyond mapped space, systems worn and crew running on fumes. Instead of stand-down, Command dropped a new directive—immediate redeploy to the Pyro gate, increased piracy, unknown origin. They said we’d report every two weeks… and warned us we weren’t the only ship to disappear out there

I joined the crew with Ava Huxley today. A bondsman had a bounty out for Reggie Lilienthal for multiple crimes against Stanton.   With the last known location, we were able to track him down and remove him from the regeneration gene pool. 

No heroic rescue. No live miners. Just a weird, quiet creep show in a Hurston cave. Classic ‘verse bait-and-switch. RAVI’s already flagged the coordinates for future avoidance.

Never assume a defender will change a broken strategy when they can choose to be stubborn instead." That was the lesson of Round One, and as the airlock doors of the dead gunship hissed open, our team was about to prove that predictability is the fastest way to get wiped in a training evolution