As we made our way towards Conrad's point, my head was still spinning.

The raid at the camp, seeing Ben, the intel about these events, it was almost too much to handle.

But something about it felt familiar too.

I thought back to when I was monitoring Mishak Maradi.

Right before he was going to expose me to Ben, he had been on to something.

The chatter about the anomalies in deep space, and then just a few weeks later, Ari relays

his own warnings to Oni HQ?

Could they be connected? With so many skeletons in Oni's closet, it was just a matter of time before some of them found their way out.

Maya, you need to focus.

I was so lost in thought that I didn't realize we were coming up on Conrad's point.

A world gone dark is a scary question hanging in space. You need to be

present and ready. There could be anything beneath those clouds and I'd prefer not to die today.

This operation was rife with uncertainty. We were approaching Conrad's Point, a world in chaos

controlled by militant NCA rebels. My only link to them was a fellow agent, Ari Reznik.

But he'd gone dark weeks ago, and now this whole planet was dark

because of a catastrophic seismic event.

All that uncertainty should have been terrifying.

It should have felt immediate and sharp, but somehow it didn't.

It seemed far away, surreal.

I needed to pull it together.

Someone down there is using an analog transponder.

What?

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