The sky above Sector 02 did not resemble the rest of the continent. While thick, iron-gray storm clouds tumbled across the distant horizon—bloated with the heavy, chemical moisture of the coming atmospheric crash—the air directly above the mountain valley was clear, warm, and washed in a faint golden haze.Thermal radiation from the deep geothermal heat exchangers pushed outward in a five-kilometer dome. Where the warm air met the sub-zero wind of the outer tundra, a continuous wall of white mist rose into the sky, marking the sharp, unnatural border of the oasis."They're gathering at the three-kilometer mark," Leo said, his voice quiet in the vast, polished expanse of the command module. He sat at the main sensor array, his fingers flying across the holographic interface to render a high-density tactical grid. "The movement started at dawn. First it was small groups of scavengers, but now... Vivian, it's entire migrant columns. Thousands of them."Vivian stood on the central obs
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