But Kira had the crate.
The stalemate didn't break. It ascended .
Her radio crackled. Frontier scouts had triangulated the signal.
He didn't understand. He was a scientist, not a soldier.
The battle for the Crystal Generator lasted three hours. Frontier threw everything they had— Isidas , Vulcans , even the experimental Brutus artillery. Armada responded with a ferocity born of desperate hope.