A fragment of Kavaron drifts toward the Wurmwall with a possible memorial vault inside it. Sergeant Farakatolar leads the mission because the Kav cannot afford to lose more of their broken world. Drilling reveals a white structure too curved for Kav construction and too resistant to instruments to classify. At its centre waits a blue orb that seems valuable enough to justify the voyage.
Rooms seal, the artifact moves and each member of the squad meets a different impossible death. Farakatolar keeps leading forward because retreat would make the sacrifices meaningless. That logic is the structure's sharpest weapon. It turns the need to honour the dead into permission to risk whoever remains.
She reaches into the node and discovers that its surface does not separate outside from inside. Injury, blood loss and crushing pressure only intensify her determination to claim it for Kavaron. When her fist finally closes, nothing is left. The mission repeats the homeworld's history on a smaller scale: preservation destroyed by the extraction meant to secure it.