Schism comes into view and so Arel’s plan commences. Exaere lowers the craft to a dangerously low height. The sector is crawling with phantoms, which have long devolved into utter animalistic beasts with no observable awareness of what they have become. The people who once were, are gone and in their place are frantic and howling creatures with nothing more than an unquenchable thirst for blood.The roaring of the thrusters alerts all of Schism to their arrival and soon a hoard of decaying bodies emerge from the burnt remains of the sector. The phantoms snarl and rush at the ship, like starved wolves, foaming at the mouths. Exaere steers the Transaero forward and the monsters follow, mindlessly hungering for flesh.
Mercantile, Veneer, and finally Perfunctory – none of the sectors escaped t
