CHAPTER 108:

A cold hum emanated from the console, its lights flickering sporadically as Salaris paced the control room. The metal beneath his boots felt unsettlingly still, a stark contrast to the chaos outside. The Order’s operations center had been built into the jagged rock formations of Wolf 1061c, their base a metallic intrusion into the natural landscape. Sensors blinked across the screens, but it was the faint tremors in t