interstellar scavenger Cole’s knuckles rubbed against the grip of the Abyss Hive Pattern Void-Breaching Piercing Dagger, his fingertips gliding over the honeycomb-textured grooves, the feel like touching the slimy carapace of the Zelta-9 Hive Mother’s core🪨. This dead planet is marked as a forbidden zone by the Federation military, where void echoes warp the space of the wreckage zone🌌. Three days ago, Cole infiltrated the abandoned military warehouse in the core area and found this dagger embedded in the skull of a Hive Lord—its blade was still glowing with the blue afterglow of void energy🔵, and the area where it pierced the Lord’s skull was slowly dissolving the residual biotic field of the Zerg. Cole had originally come to salvage the Federation’s leftover military chips, but accidentally triggered the planet’s void resonance. Zerg phantoms drifted around him, corrosive mucus dripping onto his armor with a sizzling sound🦠. In a moment of crisis, he pulled out the dagger, and the honeycomb texture of the grip instantly lit up with a faint glow. The spatial distortion around him suddenly subsided, and the Zerg phantoms dissipated into tiny glowing specks. Now Cole hides in the shadow of a lava cave, the dagger’s blue afterglow reflected in his goggles. The sound of mech tracks crushing gravel echoes from the cave mouth🔫. He can’t tell if the approaching figures are the Federation’s purge squad—those executioners who want to recover the void-breaching weapons and silence all witnesses, or the Zerg remnants awakened by the void energy...