Aether's Obsession
Third-person POV
The first breach came without warning.
Vorathian assault ships materialized from the void like knives drawn from shadow, sleek, obsidian hulls that drank the aurora light and gave nothing back. They struck three clan territories at once: the Vyrkath deep-sea citadels, the Kragvorn abyssal mining rings, and the Thalorian floating spires that guarded the central core axis. Not cities. Not settlements. The invaders ignored the populated domes and surface platforms entirely. Their weapons, silent, precise lances of anti-Aether plasma, targeted only the ancient node crystals buried beneath the crust.