The night we lost the sky. You do not win — you just hold.
CONCEPTHumanity (pre-schism)
Concept
The Mission
Overview
This is humanity's first contact with the Scourge, fought in orbit and atmosphere over a dying world. You will not win. You hold the line as long as you can, save who you can, and then it falls. Everything else in the universe happens after this.
What Makes It Hurt
Features
The unwinnable battle
Waves escalate past any sustainable defense. Buy minutes, save some evacuations, witness the fall — heroism inside doom.
Before the schism
This is the loss that breaks humanity into 'burn the source' and 'hold the line' — the origin of the Pyre and the Wardens both.
First sight of the Choir
The orbital relays appear here for the first time — the repeaters that every later war is fought to sever.
