The rust-red wreckage of a starship sizzles and smokes in the acidic rain over the Alpha-7 Wasteland🔩. Scout Corporal Kahn of the Interstellar Marine Corps crunches through shattered titanium alloy plates with the soles of his boots, while the fluorescent warning strips on his boot shafts emit a faint blue glow against the gray, misty rain. The “Starwreck Ripper Tactical Combat Serrated Dagger” in his hand gleams with a cool, matte white finish, its serrated blade still streaked with the thick, viscous oil of a recently cleaned mechanical hound🩸. Three hours earlier, he had received an encrypted signal from the theater command center, reporting that the abandoned frigate wreckage concealed the black box of the missing supply ship “Odin”—a device that held critical data on the rebels’ theft of a stellar-core reactor. But when he pried open the hatch, all he found inside was a tactical data panel shredded by a plasma beam, along with a set of eerie symbols etched into the alloy wall of the bridge—emblematic of the “Phantom Company,” which was wiped out in its entirety ten years ago. According to legend, every member of that unit perished in a catastrophic starship self-destruction. Kahn tightens his grip on the dagger’s handle; the textured, non-slip grip conforms perfectly to his calloused palm, and the serrated blade hums softly as droplets of acid rain drip onto it. Suddenly, a sharp metallic screech echoes from the ventilation duct behind him. He whirls around, the dagger’s point aimed straight at the dark opening—but all he sees is his own blurred reflection on the rusting steel plate. And then, amid the swirling rain and mist, those same symbols etched into the wall begin to slowly bleed a pale purple fluorescence💫, as if beckoning some unknown presence.