General Kira Vex of Armada knew the end was near. Her treasury was empty. Her mechanics were stripping armor from decommissioned Wasp tanks just to patch the flagship's hull. Frontier was no better, but they had one final ace: a rumored "Crystal Synthesizer" hidden in the No Man's Land of Valles Marineris.
"General Vex," the crackling hologram whispered, his eyes wild behind cracked goggles. "I’ve done it. The resonance cascade. I’ve built a Generator that doesn’t mine Crystals… it creates them. From vacuum energy. Unlimited. Untraceable. But I can’t hold the location. Everyone is coming." General Kira Vex of Armada knew the end was near
Dr. Thorne was right. The Generator had ended the war. Just not in the way anyone expected. Frontier was no better, but they had one
Her radio crackled. Frontier scouts had triangulated the signal. The resonance cascade
She ordered her engineers to reverse-engineer the Generator. They didn't need to. The one at the lab was still running. And Frontier couldn't destroy it because they wanted it for themselves.
It was a lie, of course. Or so she thought.