Director Cassian Rook held the sealed seizure order where city cameras could read every authorization mark. He waited for the Citadel barrier to finish rising before presenting his argument to the people watching from both sides. Nothing inside the document concealed who would lose authority after enforcement began.
"A permanent dungeon core does not belong only to whoever reaches it first," Rook said.
Nox stood calmly behind the silver boundary without interrupting the speech at all. Thirty soldiers formed three containment lines beyond the field, though none raised a weapon high enough to convert the public order into an attack.
"That core attracts breaches, controls barriers, alters local infrastructure, plus can turn an ordinary neighborhood into claimed territory overnight," he continued.
