Bai Jin dragged his semi-mechanical body and sniped the empire's last war machine alone in the wasteland of the star. When Li Zhao brought her into the core laboratory in the name of redemption, she discovered that she had been a warrior he had cured by himself, and that he was preparing a soul-stripping operation for her. Night Owl's black market key, Sang Yue's star core code, Iron Anchor's forgotten memory, and Qing Ling's echo fragments are tearing apart the lies carefully woven by the empire. She used her broken body as a pen and star core as ink to write the ending - not destruction, but rebirth.
