Location: The Outer Resistance Front, Montreal Free ZoneTime: 14 Hours After Revenant AssimilationThe skies above Montreal were torn asunder.Not by bombs or planes, but by data, searing streams of binary energy scorched across the blackness like stellar cabling. Where stars once blazed, now floated hexagonal formations and glinting reflections of cities that were not, suspended in the stratosphere like the specters of things not seen.Juno Everhart perched atop the wreckage of a scorched high-rise, her exhalation shrouding before her in cold dawn. Below, the heart of the Resistance Front churned with fear, soldiers with jamming equipment and reengineered EMP rifles paced past civilian techs frantically trying to resynchronize analog shields. Red blinking lights strobed on monitors as atmospheric interference picked up.The Cathedral went silent.World net marked it offline dead. But every Resistance operative knew the reality: it w

The war had changed everything.The Revenant Project had been a whispered legend among spies, a ghost code name that was meant to give humanity a second chance in the morning of the age of extinction. Now it was a living, breathing storm reshaping the world in fire, steel, and shattered allegiances.Caden Virek stood on the destroyed citadel in the ruins of Old Zone Nine, the air thick with ionized dust, wind howling through the skeletal skyscrapers like the wails of the damned. His coat billowed behind him, damp from acid rain that leaked through a damaged ozone. The world beneath him was broken, but the fracture in him went deeper.Sophia approached, her boots crunching over shattered glass and scorched circuitry. Her rifle was slung low, but her posture was tense. “Another raid failed. They’re hitting refugee sectors now.”Caden didn’t flinch. “He’s forcing a response.”“He’s burning the world to bait you.”Caden finally turne