01 · The Ambush at Dawn
The Celestial Flower bloomed as foretold, completing the First Sacred Flight. But the flare breached the shroud: raiders used acoustic resonance cutters to collapse the outer perimeter wards in minutes.
02 · The Violent Extraction
They forced the sanctum and tore the Astrolabe of Distant Light violently from its stone setting. With the relic severed, all 22 stellar anchors have folded into pitch-black void. The sky is blind.
03 · The Cartographer's Escape & Relay
The Cartographer survived the raid and fled into the lower archive tunnels with the cipher keys. He has activated an emergency radio beacon on 22.22 MHz and is broadcasting a distress signal right now.