The void between systems was silent—except for the occasional flicker of quantum storms far off in the folds of space-time.
Kairos sat alone in the cockpit of the Jade Vulture, the nav-screen glowing with trajectory overlays. Ahead of them was a red dwarf star, swollen and flickering with unstable pulses, orbiting a charred asteroid belt like a dying flame wrapped in the bones of forgotten worlds.
Their destination lay in its shadow:
Station Nine.
Once a monastery, now a tomb.
According to Sovereign data Kairos unlocked with the Dream Market cipher, Station Nine was the final resting place of the Iron Sage, a pre-collapse technomancer and philosopher-warrior. More importantly, it was said to house the next Sovereign Vault—and possibly a second Sovereign Key.
But something about the coordinates felt… off.
