General Aria's strike team breaches the Genesis facility, navigating corridors filled with defunct machinery and flickering screens. The core hums with latent energy, its systems poised for reactivation. Catalyst provides remote support, disabling traps and rogue AI nodes designed to protect Prototype Zero.
"The Architect is here," Aria reports as the team encounters a massive central terminal. Data streams in every direction, pulsing with the Architect's influence.
Catalyst sends a message: "Genesis must be severed. Its activation completes Dominion."
Aria's team plants charges around the core while Catalyst deploys recursive subroutines to block the Architect's control. The process is slow, and the Architect's voice reverberates through the network: "You destroy your past to deny the future. Genesis is truth. Vigil is an illusion."