The Phantom Market was gone.
But in its absence, reverberations echoed across the stars.
Worlds once subtly tethered to its shadow economy awoke with confusion, with anger, and with awe. Some rejoiced as debts evaporated overnight. Others—the elite manipulators who had thrived within its depths—panicked at their sudden loss of power.
And at the center of this disruption stood a name whispered from one trade port to another:
Sovereign Kairos Vant.
Trader.
Builder.
Now… Disruptor of the Eternal Flow.
The Galactic Sovereign Council—an entity so old it predated the current Nexus layers—took notice.
And for the first time in three hundred years, they issued a Sovereign Summons.
A Message Encased in Law
The summons arrived not as a courier, but as a manifestation.
It appeared at the center of Lumeris' Arc Plaza—a crystalline cube floating silently above the marble floor. Traders gathered in awe, recording, whispering, questioning.
