There is no hell quite like being ripped through the seams of space while the metal around you screams like a dying animal."Hull integrity dropping to forty percent, the gravitational shear is crushing our port thrusters!" Lira screams over the deafening screech of bending steel and roaring cosmic static."Hold the ship together, Lira, I don't care if you have to divert life support power to those structural dampeners!" Garrick roars, his boots sliding across the vibrating floor grates as he hauls himself up to the main tactical deck."If I cut life support, we freeze in fifteen seconds, Admiral!" Lira fires back, her face streaked with sweat and tears as she desperately fights the locked flight stick."Ethan, do something, the outer hull plates are buckling!" Evelyn gasps, her hands gripping my jacket with white-knuckled desperation as the bridge deck tilts violently at a sickening thirty-degree angle."I've got you, Evelyn, I'm not letting this ship break!" I yell back, pulling her

You can spend eleven thousand years sleeping in a box, but the moment someone decides to wake you, you find out if you are stepping out into a home or a graveyard."Ethan, do not step past that threshold, every diagnostic scanner on my suit is screaming red!" Lira yells, her voice cracking through my helmet speakers as she grabs my arm with a trembling, armored hand."Look at the life support telemetry on that central capsule, Lira, the power grid is decaying right in front of our eyes!" I shout back, pulling my arm free and stepping deeper into the towering, subterranean vault."Ethan, listen to her!" Garrick roars, raising his heavy plasma rifle and sweeping the dark gantry above us with his weapon light. "We have no idea what kind of ancient contagion is cooked into that stasis mist!""If we stand here debating safety protocols for another two minutes, whoever is inside that pod is going to suffocate in their sleep!" I argue

There is a moment right before you jump straight into the jaws of a leviathan where you stop caring about surviving and start caring only about how many teeth you can break on your way down."Commander, drop-ship thrusters are burning at absolute maximum, but The Tenth Dawn is taking direct plasma fire in upper orbit right now!" Lira screams, her hands flying across the flight console as the drop-ship slams through the upper cloud layer of ash into the cold void of space."Keep us moving, Lira, don't back off the throttle for a single microsecond!" I roar, holding onto the overhead support bar with one hand while keeping my other arm wrapped tightly around Evelyn's waist.The moment our drop-ship breaches the atmosphere, the dark void explodes into a chaotic hellscape of blinding blue energy beams and flying hull fragments. Surrounded by towering, triangular Architect dreadnoughts that look like floating steel mountain ranges, The Tenth Dawn