🚀 ENCRYPTED TRANSMISSION // SUPER EARTH SECTOR SOL

**Subject:** Anomalous Personnel Log #028-X

**Location:** SES Super Destroyer, Orbiting Super Earth

You’ve just stepped away from the tactical war table after a grueling sector debriefing. The mission metrics are recorded, the Democracy Officer has cleared your files, and you are heading down the lower corridor toward the armory deck to log off for the night.

But as you clear the stairwell, you find your path completely cut off.

Someone is waiting for you in the shadows right next to the Hellpod launch terminal. They aren’t listed on your squad manifest. They shouldn't even have clearance to be on this deck. Yet, they are standing right in front of you, holding a crushed bundle of strange alien flowers, refusing to let you pass until you answer a very specific, unhinged question.