Strategic Advisor: Patrick

From their ships in high orbit, the warlords watched it unfold. On the enemy sensors, a sudden surge of activity appeared — the Alpha Legion vessel *Obscura Serpentis* opened its launch bays and fired multiple Dreadclaws toward the surface of Noctis Ferrum.

At first, it seemed like a coordinated drop, but things quickly went wrong. The capsules veered off course, as if their navigation had been disrupted by the planet itself. The retro-burners, meant to slow their descent, remained ominously silent. What followed was a lightshow of burning wrecks streaking through the atmosphere like falling stars, crashing straight into the ash plains below.

The comms stayed silent — no signals, no distress beacons, nothing. Only a brief, broken transmission on an Alpha Legion frequency… then silence.

The enemy warlord **Traigo Lightfall** is *presumed destroyed.*
And though no one said it aloud, a chuckle rippled through the command deck:

“Seems Lightfall didn’t fall quite so lightly after all.”