021: PHASE II – SIEGE

INVASION CAMPAIGN — PHASE II: SIEGE CORE ASCENT

“We have entered their gravity. Now we will become their truth.”

[I] DESCENT SEQUENCE — 00:07:41 SINCE BREACH

• The Throne of the Fallen Star breaches lower orbit, its shields flickering with blacklight pulses as gravity bends light around it.
• Echo Nomads blink back into form — distorted, time-lagged, but still anchored. Their voices ripple the sky in rhythmic pulses.
• Forge-Song Kin unleash **Rite-Hammers** onto the surface, constructing siege pylons from falling star-iron mid-air.
• Atmospheric Status: Violent red spirals, echo winds, and psionic static interfere with scans. SYGMA warns: “Planetary soul is becoming reactive.”

[II] INSIDE THE BRIDGE — STRATEGY CONVERGENCE

ARCHON: (cold, focused)
“Center our fire on the chant monoliths. If they align, Praxis awakens its Core Choir.”

VOIDCHANTRESS: (eyes glowing, whispering)
“I can thread the chant backwards. But I’ll need silence from the war. Ten seconds of stillness.”

SYGMA: (manifesting in neural veil)
“Your demand contradicts the nature of siege. Suggest modifying atmosphere with echo suppression…”

ARCHON: (gripping control ring)
“Do it. All weapons: cease fire for ten seconds. The galaxy will hold its breath.”

FORGE-SMITH AUREGON (broadcast):
“We are silencing our flame. Let the chantress carve the path.”

[III] THE PSIONIC STILLNESS — T+00:08:55

The battlefield freezes. Even the wind falters. Orbit rings stall their spin. The Nomads hum a harmonic zero-point.
And then — the Voidchantress speaks.

“Return to the mouth that should never have sung.”

Her voice folds backward in the chant lattice. The monoliths recoil. Their light inverts. The Trinity Core screeches in harmonic disarray.
A choral rupture echoes through Praxis — and in the breach, a path opens: a descending fracture into the planetary core.

[IV] ENEMY RESISTANCE

• Oathbinders appear — teleporting via memory fractals, targeting the Nomads with soul-severance blades.
• Dirgecasters project low-frequency pulses attempting to disrupt the Forge-Song Kin’s weapon creation.
• TRINITY CORE initiates **Temporal Dissonance Pulse** — attempting to split the present across multiple timelines.

ARCHON:
“They’re turning time against us.”

SYGMA:
“Countermeasure ready: deploy the Echo Anchor.”

VOIDCHANTRESS:
“Or let me sing us into singularity.”

The Echo Nomads link arms, activating their **Echo Anchor** — a beam of harmonized memory fields that stabilizes the timeline bubble for exactly 132 seconds.
The path remains open. But Praxis howls now, aware it is dying.

[V] VICTORY OF ASCENT

• The *Throne* positions itself above the breach.
• Echo Nomads descend first — singing null tones to collapse residual memory traps.
• Forge-Song Kin follow, forging a bridge of burning warsteel over the core chasm.
• Starfall Archon and Voidchantress enter together — side by side, silent, glowing.

“The sky is broken. The core is open. Praxis has no more secrets — only endings.”

NEXT: PHASE III — CORE CONFRONTATION & PLANETARY SHUTDOWN