The crisis developed at site nine on day three hundred and thirty-two, two weeks into the Partnership Initiative's operational phase.
Site nine was located in the northern territories, one of the original Cascading Dawn nodes that had been successfully transitioned to joint management. The facility had been operating smoothly for three weeks. Standard monitoring protocols. Regular consciousness communication sessions. No incidents. No conflicts.
Then something manifested that shouldn't have been possible in a controlled rift environment.
The emergency alert reached Amaron during his scheduled rotation at site six. Immediate S-rank response required. Multiple casualties. Consciousness communication protocols had catastrophically failed. The rift had manifested hostile entity at Grade 7 intensity despite all stability indicators showing normal parameters.
