As more and more people heard about an upcoming alien offensive and began to prepare for a period of intense fighting, Task Force Solus was still struggling to make progress on Reticula Corein V.
Swordmaster Ketis had been waiting for a response from the strike force that she had sent to the dreaded Emperor Tree located not too far away from Chimera Base.
The small elite strike force was led by her husband Joshua. The goal was to retrieve critical samples of the calamity plant that dominated the entire region surrounding his major Solus Gas deposit.
She hoped she picked the correct time to dispatch the strike force now that there were much less hostile beasts in the entire region.
The waves of maddened exobeast attacks had abated to an extent. The continued drain on the local environment had reached an unsustainable level.
