Ereun’s message hung in the air of the Ghost’s hold, a cold, hard seed planted in the fragile soil of their nascent hope. The stark binary of it, cauterize the infection, was a brutal echo of the logic that had built the prison Roewi had just destroyed. It was the language of the sovereign he had refused to become.
Myra was the first to break the silence. "It's a trap. Or a test. He's trying to pull you back into his war, to make you his weapon."
Kaira, her arms crossed, stared at the star chart highlighting the Sirius Sector. "Jax Korvus isn't just a warlord. He was a Division Zero Black-Ops commander. Ruthless, efficient, and now he's unchained. Ereun isn't wrong about the threat. If Korvus consolidates the Sirius Sector, he'll have the industrial base to build a fleet that could crush
