The terminal in the hidden laboratory had told them everything.
Vahn had stood in front of the alien screen for a long time without speaking. Aria had watched his face go from focused to cold to something she had never seen before.
Something close to rage.
The Overlords were not coming. They were already here. Proxy agents embedded in every major city. Resource extraction teams disguised as Syndicate guilds. And a thirty day countdown to a full planetary harvest that made the Convergence look like a warning shot.
He had not told the others everything he saw on that screen. Not yet. Some information needed to be acted on before it could be processed.
He had simply closed the terminal, looked at Aria, and said "We need to move faster."
