Chapter 171 - PENETRATION

Amazon Basin's corrupted expanse stretched beneath Coalition transport as dawn broke over territory that had once sustained Earth's most biodiverse ecosystem but now existed as void network infrastructure consuming space where rainforest had flourished before three centuries of gradual reality consumption transformed South America's heart into dimensional wound connecting surviving sectors to void territories that actual war's defensive operations had never successfully penetrated for extended durations. Rama observed the landscape through viewport noting how corruption this dense made visual perception unreliable as reality itself struggled maintaining coherent existence patterns against void energy concentration that exceeded anything surviving sectors experienced even during catastrophic fracture formations.