The first twenty days passed in two rhythms that never touched.
In the sealed lab beneath the palace, the development network worked.
Vorth and her team had the Suryax solar-aligned blueprint open first. It was the natural starting point, because the alliance already understood solar resonance through the Suryax Geneline, and because the original Oblivion harnessing system Vorth had cracked gave them a working model for how a Tier-100 design came apart and went back together. The principles carried, even across different alignments. A blueprint was a blueprint. The hard part was never the concept. The hard part was the thousand small things a Tier-100 design assumed you already knew.
