The room shifted focus.
Aris Thorne's fingers danced across the control panel, pulling up new data streams, tactical maps, and energy signature analyses. The holographic display now showed the wasteland in its entirety, the fallen Eclipse territories marked in gray, the Tech-Savants base pulsing blue, and two red blips indicating the last known positions of Darwin and Subject Omega.
"We need a strategy," Aris said, her voice crisp and professional. "A real, executable plan."
Fey nodded, her data-slate already glowing with notes. "Agreed. But we can't move until Julian wakes up. He's the core of any assault."
"Then we plan around him," Celestia said calmly. "We prepare everything we can now, so when he's ready, we move immediately."
Veronica crossed her arms. "What about Darwin? He's not going to just sit still while we recover."
Aris shook her head. "Actually, he doesn't have a choice."
Every eye turned to her.
"Explain," Fey said.
