They Targeted the Helpless—Earth’s Fleet Arrived Without Mercy! But Then THIS Happened | Sci-Fi
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The sky over Junotar shimmerred'}, {'start': '35.520', 'end': '41.600', 'text': "with an eerie calm, a quiet that didn't"}, {'start': '39.040', 'end': '43.440', 'text': 'belong. Old traitors said the silence'}, {'start': '41.600', 'end': '45.440', 'text': 'before the storm always had a taste'}, {'start': '43.440', 'end': '47.760', 'text': 'bitter like metal on your tongue. And'}, {'start': '45.440', 'end': '50.160', 'text': 'today the whole colony of Sariah 4 felt'}, {'start': '47.760', 'end': '52.000', 'text': 'it. They came in the night. Not the kind'}, {'start': '50.160', 'end': '53.920', 'text': 'of night that earth used to know, but'}, {'start': '52.000', 'end': '56.800', 'text': 'the eternal dusk that hung over this'}, {'start': '53.920', 'end': '58.559', 'text': 'small terraformed world. The Trion'}, {'start': '56.800', 'end': '60.520', 'text': "Dominion's warships broke through the"}, {'start': '58.559', 'end': '64.159', 'text': 'atmosphere like knives, silver and'}, {'start': '60.520', 'end': '67.520', 'text': 'soulless. No warning, no negotiation,'}, {'start': '64.159', 'end': '70.080', 'text': "just fire. The children didn't scream."}, {'start': '67.520', 'end': '72.640', 'text': 'They never got the chance. Homes burst'}, {'start': '70.080', 'end': '75.680', 'text': 'open like crushed cans, lights blinking'}, {'start': '72.640', 'end': '78.000', 'text': "out one by one. The Trions weren't"}, {'start': '75.680', 'end': '81.360', 'text': "interested in resources. They didn't"}, {'start': '78.000', 'end': '83.600', 'text': "need water, didn't need crops. They came"}, {'start': '81.360', 'end': '85.479', 'text': 'for dominance. They came because they'}, {'start': '83.600', 'end': '88.799', 'text': "could. Earth's"}, {'start': '85.479', 'end': '91.759', 'text': 'colonists. Most of them farmers, medics,'}, {'start': '88.799', 'end': '93.840', 'text': 'and teachers had no weapons. The colony'}, {'start': '91.759', 'end': '96.560', 'text': 'was declared neutral under the Galactic'}, {'start': '93.840', 'end': '98.479', 'text': 'Accord. It was supposed to be safe,'}, {'start': '96.560', 'end': '101.360', 'text': 'protected, a place for families for'}, {'start': '98.479', 'end': '102.600', 'text': 'hope. That hope evaporated in a matter'}, {'start': '101.360', 'end': '104.360', 'text': 'of'}, {'start': '102.600', 'end': '107.200', 'text': 'minutes.'}, {'start': '104.360', 'end': '109.040', 'text': "Elias Vaughn held his daughter's hand as"}, {'start': '107.200', 'end': '111.119', 'text': 'they ran through the burning field of'}, {'start': '109.040', 'end': '114.200', 'text': 'soy leaf stalks.'}, {'start': '111.119', 'end': '117.040', 'text': 'She was seven, small,'}, {'start': '114.200', 'end': '121.600', 'text': "fragile, asking questions he didn't know"}, {'start': '117.040', 'end': '123.759', 'text': 'how to answer. "Daddy, where\'s mommy?"'}, {'start': '121.600', 'end': '127.119', 'text': "Jules didn't have the heart to tell her,"}, {'start': '123.759', 'end': '129.479', 'text': '"Not yet. Maybe never." He just ran'}, {'start': '127.119', 'end': '132.640', 'text': 'faster, gripping her tighter,'}, {'start': '129.479', 'end': '135.440', 'text': 'whispering, "Keep going, baby. Keep'}, {'start': '132.640', 'end': '138.959', 'text': 'going." They weren\'t soldiers. None of'}, {'start': '135.440', 'end': '142.000', 'text': "them were. But the massacre didn't care."}, {'start': '138.959', 'end': '143.920', 'text': 'A Tvon soldier 8 ft of armored cruelty'}, {'start': '142.000', 'end': '146.720', 'text': 'struck down a fleeing figure just 10'}, {'start': '143.920', 'end': '148.480', 'text': "paces ahead. Jules saw the kid's body"}, {'start': '146.720', 'end': '151.280', 'text': 'crumpled the glow still burning through'}, {'start': '148.480', 'end': '154.480', 'text': 'his chest. He almost threw up, but his'}, {'start': '151.280', 'end': '157.200', 'text': 'daughter kept him moving. By dawn,'}, {'start': '154.480', 'end': '159.360', 'text': 'Sariah IVth was silent again. Not the'}, {'start': '157.200', 'end': '162.080', 'text': 'peaceful kind, the kind where death'}, {'start': '159.360', 'end': '164.720', 'text': 'hangs in the air like smoke. What the'}, {'start': '162.080', 'end': '167.200', 'text': "Trions didn't know or didn't care about"}, {'start': '164.720', 'end': '169.599', 'text': 'was that every colony had a beacon, a'}, {'start': '167.200', 'end': '171.760', 'text': 'distress signal. And when Jules finally'}, {'start': '169.599', 'end': '173.680', 'text': 'made it to the underground relay station'}, {'start': '171.760', 'end': '176.400', 'text': 'and shoved his bloodied hand on the'}, {'start': '173.680', 'end': '179.599', 'text': 'console, Earth heard it. The signal'}, {'start': '176.400', 'end': '182.400', 'text': 'reached Luna Command within 13 minutes.'}, {'start': '179.599', 'end': '184.959', 'text': "Admiral Thala Knox hadn't slept in 36"}, {'start': '182.400', 'end': '187.360', 'text': "hours, but she didn't need rest. She"}, {'start': '184.959', 'end': '189.519', 'text': 'needed orders. And when she saw the'}, {'start': '187.360', 'end': '191.920', 'text': 'footage, children lost in the chaos,'}, {'start': '189.519', 'end': '194.480', 'text': 'elders caught in the crossfire outposts'}, {'start': '191.920', 'end': '197.120', 'text': "reduced to ash. She didn't ask the"}, {'start': '194.480', 'end': '199.959', 'text': 'council for permission. She simply said,'}, {'start': '197.120', 'end': '202.959', 'text': '"Mobilize the seventh fleet. We burn'}, {'start': '199.959', 'end': '205.760', 'text': 'them." Across Earth\'s orbit, the silence'}, {'start': '202.959', 'end': '207.840', 'text': 'ended. Massive dreadnots began powering'}, {'start': '205.760', 'end': '210.440', 'text': 'up old warships from the solar'}, {'start': '207.840', 'end': '212.560', 'text': 'conflicts, retrofitted for speed and'}, {'start': '210.440', 'end': '215.280', 'text': 'vengeance. Carriers swarmed with'}, {'start': '212.560', 'end': '219.040', 'text': 'exoarmored infantry units. drones'}, {'start': '215.280', 'end': '222.799', 'text': 'calibrated coordinates. Target trian'}, {'start': '219.040', 'end': '224.640', 'text': 'Dominion forward fleet secondary target.'}, {'start': '222.799', 'end': '227.120', 'text': 'Every stronghold they dared to build'}, {'start': '224.640', 'end': '229.519', 'text': 'Earth had been quiet for decades.'}, {'start': '227.120', 'end': '231.519', 'text': 'Peaceful even. But Earth never forgot'}, {'start': '229.519', 'end': '233.879', 'text': 'how to fight. And when its children were'}, {'start': '231.519', 'end': '238.080', 'text': "slaughtered, Earth didn't send"}, {'start': '233.879', 'end': '240.120', 'text': 'diplomats. It sent war. Jules sat in the'}, {'start': '238.080', 'end': '244.159', 'text': 'ruins holding his daughter against his'}, {'start': '240.120', 'end': '246.560', 'text': "chest. She didn't cry. She couldn't. The"}, {'start': '244.159', 'end': '248.560', 'text': 'trauma had shut her down. His eyes'}, {'start': '246.560', 'end': '250.799', 'text': 'stared up at the hazy sky where the'}, {'start': '248.560', 'end': '253.760', 'text': "enemy had vanished. He didn't know if"}, {'start': '250.799', 'end': '256.239', 'text': 'help was coming, but it was, and it'}, {'start': '253.760', 'end': '259.880', 'text': "wasn't bringing mercy. The hangar bay of"}, {'start': '256.239', 'end': '262.560', 'text': 'the UES hellstorm buzzed with controlled'}, {'start': '259.880', 'end': '264.240', 'text': 'chaos. Massive engines roared in the'}, {'start': '262.560', 'end': '266.560', 'text': 'background as the final drop ships were'}, {'start': '264.240', 'end': '269.040', 'text': 'loaded, their bellies filled with exo'}, {'start': '266.560', 'end': '271.440', 'text': 'suits, weapons, and enough firepower to'}, {'start': '269.040', 'end': '273.280', 'text': 'punch a hole through a moon.'}, {'start': '271.440', 'end': '276.880', 'text': "The seventh fleet didn't just prepare"}, {'start': '273.280', 'end': '278.800', 'text': 'for war. They embodied it. Captain Kyle'}, {'start': '276.880', 'end': '281.440', 'text': 'Riven tightened the last magnetic seal'}, {'start': '278.800', 'end': '284.320', 'text': 'on his gauntlet and stepped forward, his'}, {'start': '281.440', 'end': '286.960', 'text': 'boots clicking sharply against the deck.'}, {'start': '284.320', 'end': '288.479', 'text': "He wasn't a man of ceremony. And yet,"}, {'start': '286.960', 'end': '290.680', 'text': 'when he stood at the head of the drop'}, {'start': '288.479', 'end': '293.600', 'text': 'unit, every soldier fell'}, {'start': '290.680', 'end': '296.080', 'text': 'silent. "Listen up," he commanded his'}, {'start': '293.600', 'end': '298.639', 'text': 'tone razor sharp. "This ain\'t a clean'}, {'start': '296.080', 'end': '300.560', 'text': "up. We're not rescuing hostages. We're"}, {'start': '298.639', 'end': '303.440', 'text': 'not playing by any treaties. They'}, {'start': '300.560', 'end': '305.520', 'text': 'targeted civilians, kids, and families.'}, {'start': '303.440', 'end': '308.120', 'text': 'They wiped out a farming colony with no'}, {'start': '305.520', 'end': '310.800', 'text': 'defenses, no survivors, as far as we'}, {'start': '308.120', 'end': '313.639', 'text': 'know. He paused, letting the weight of'}, {'start': '310.800', 'end': '317.120', 'text': 'it settle on them. They wanted to make a'}, {'start': '313.639', 'end': '320.000', 'text': "point. We're going to make one back 10"}, {'start': '317.120', 'end': '323.199', 'text': 'times louder. He scanned the faces in'}, {'start': '320.000', 'end': '324.440', 'text': 'front of him. Men, women, non-binary,'}, {'start': '323.199', 'end': '327.840', 'text': 'even a few'}, {'start': '324.440', 'end': '331.039', 'text': 'synthetics. A few of them were shaking.'}, {'start': '327.840', 'end': '334.000', 'text': 'Others just looked cold. Ready? Our'}, {'start': '331.039', 'end': '336.800', 'text': 'orders are simple. Drop in. Hit their'}, {'start': '334.000', 'end': '339.840', 'text': "forward outposts. We don't just"}, {'start': '336.800', 'end': '342.080', 'text': 'them, we erase them. We send one message'}, {'start': '339.840', 'end': '344.120', 'text': 'across every system in this quadrant.'}, {'start': '342.080', 'end': '346.639', 'text': "You don't touch Earth. You don't touch"}, {'start': '344.120', 'end': '349.520', 'text': 'ours. The roar that followed could have'}, {'start': '346.639', 'end': '352.000', 'text': 'cracked metal. Arlland turned and stroed'}, {'start': '349.520', 'end': '354.000', 'text': 'toward his dropship. Behind him, the'}, {'start': '352.000', 'end': '356.560', 'text': 'elite Hellhammer unit followed fully'}, {'start': '354.000', 'end': '358.320', 'text': 'geared in black-on-black exo armor,'}, {'start': '356.560', 'end': '360.000', 'text': "bristling with weapons that weren't even"}, {'start': '358.320', 'end': '363.360', 'text': 'supposed to exist under the current'}, {'start': '360.000', 'end': '365.720', 'text': "galactic laws. And they didn't care."}, {'start': '363.360', 'end': '368.800', 'text': 'Halfway through their descent toward'}, {'start': '365.720', 'end': '371.759', 'text': 'triv, the lights inside the ship dimmed.'}, {'start': '368.800', 'end': '374.319', 'text': 'Brief turbulence shook the cabin. Brace'}, {'start': '371.759', 'end': '377.199', 'text': 'barked the pilot. A few nervous rookies'}, {'start': '374.319', 'end': '379.199', 'text': "flinched, but Arlin barely moved. He'd"}, {'start': '377.199', 'end': '381.520', 'text': 'been through this dance too many times,'}, {'start': '379.199', 'end': '383.960', 'text': "but this wasn't just another war zone."}, {'start': '381.520', 'end': '386.400', 'text': "This wasn't political. This was"}, {'start': '383.960', 'end': '389.440', 'text': "personal. The fleet's target was a"}, {'start': '386.400', 'end': '391.919', 'text': 'Triven outpost on the fringe of Zoral 5,'}, {'start': '389.440', 'end': '394.639', 'text': 'a volcanic moon used for ore processing'}, {'start': '391.919', 'end': '396.960', 'text': "and military operations. It wasn't"}, {'start': '394.639', 'end': '399.280', 'text': 'heavily populated, but intelligence'}, {'start': '396.960', 'end': '402.240', 'text': 'showed signs of the same ships that had'}, {'start': '399.280', 'end': '404.479', 'text': 'been identified at Sariah 4. If those'}, {'start': '402.240', 'end': '406.400', 'text': "bastards were down there, Earth's first"}, {'start': '404.479', 'end': '407.240', 'text': 'message would be delivered straight to'}, {'start': '406.400', 'end': '409.919', 'text': 'their'}, {'start': '407.240', 'end': '412.400', 'text': 'throats. The moment the door split open,'}, {'start': '409.919', 'end': '413.919', 'text': 'the scent of sulfur hit them like a wave'}, {'start': '412.400', 'end': '416.960', 'text': 'along with the distant rumble of'}, {'start': '413.919', 'end': '419.360', 'text': 'tectonic movement underfoot. Zoro 5 was'}, {'start': '416.960', 'end': '421.680', 'text': 'alive. The lava rivers pulsed through'}, {'start': '419.360', 'end': '423.280', 'text': 'cracked canyons. Steam hissed from'}, {'start': '421.680', 'end': '426.080', 'text': 'fissures in the ground. And in the'}, {'start': '423.280', 'end': '428.240', 'text': 'middle of all that, the Trian compound.'}, {'start': '426.080', 'end': '430.160', 'text': 'High black towers stretched like thorns'}, {'start': '428.240', 'end': '433.319', 'text': 'out of the rock, guarded by plasma'}, {'start': '430.160', 'end': '436.560', 'text': 'cannons and sentinel drones. None of it'}, {'start': '433.319', 'end': '439.440', 'text': 'mattered. Arllin raised his hand. Go.'}, {'start': '436.560', 'end': '442.800', 'text': 'The unit moved like a single organism.'}, {'start': '439.440', 'end': '445.360', 'text': 'Exo suits charging forward. Rail guns,'}, {'start': '442.800', 'end': '447.520', 'text': 'locked drones deployed. The first'}, {'start': '445.360', 'end': '449.919', 'text': 'explosion landed at the southern gate,'}, {'start': '447.520', 'end': '450.759', 'text': 'sending chunks of alien metal flying in'}, {'start': '449.919', 'end': '454.479', 'text': 'every'}, {'start': '450.759', 'end': '457.520', 'text': 'direction. Screams followed. panicked,'}, {'start': '454.479', 'end': '459.919', 'text': 'high-pitched, unprepared. The Trians'}, {'start': '457.520', 'end': '462.520', 'text': "didn't expect them this fast. Didn't"}, {'start': '459.919', 'end': '465.680', 'text': "matter. Earth didn't give warning"}, {'start': '462.520', 'end': '467.759', 'text': 'anymore. The first Trian warrior Arlin'}, {'start': '465.680', 'end': '470.000', 'text': 'encountered came at him with a serrated'}, {'start': '467.759', 'end': '472.960', 'text': 'energy blade taller and bulkier than any'}, {'start': '470.000', 'end': '475.440', 'text': "human. But the captain didn't flinch. He"}, {'start': '472.960', 'end': '477.199', 'text': 'dodged low, twisted, and drove a'}, {'start': '475.440', 'end': '479.759', 'text': "compressed core knife into the alien's"}, {'start': '477.199', 'end': '482.000', 'text': 'ribs. The armor cracked with a hiss and'}, {'start': '479.759', 'end': '484.560', 'text': 'thick black blood spilled as the thing'}, {'start': '482.000', 'end': '486.360', 'text': 'collapsed, gurgling. "You picked the'}, {'start': '484.560', 'end': '488.720', 'text': 'wrong species to mess with," he'}, {'start': '486.360', 'end': '490.800', 'text': 'muttered. Explosions echoed through the'}, {'start': '488.720', 'end': '493.120', 'text': 'compound. The Hellhammer unit was'}, {'start': '490.800', 'end': '495.919', 'text': 'relentless, clearing room by room,'}, {'start': '493.120', 'end': '498.400', 'text': 'showing no mercy. Arlland saw a few'}, {'start': '495.919', 'end': '500.759', 'text': 'trians attempt surrender. Arms raised,'}, {'start': '498.400', 'end': '503.680', 'text': 'weapons dropped. They were'}, {'start': '500.759', 'end': '506.160', 'text': 'ignored. Sariah 4 burned in every'}, {'start': '503.680', 'end': '507.560', 'text': "soldier's memory. the images, the"}, {'start': '506.160', 'end': '510.120', 'text': 'bodies, the'}, {'start': '507.560', 'end': '512.360', 'text': "children. This wasn't a war"}, {'start': '510.120', 'end': '514.800', 'text': 'anymore. This was a'}, {'start': '512.360', 'end': '517.479', 'text': 'reckoning. By the time the sun dipped'}, {'start': '514.800', 'end': '520.240', 'text': "below Zaral's crust, and the last cannon"}, {'start': '517.479', 'end': '522.560', 'text': 'silenced, the Trian compound had become'}, {'start': '520.240', 'end': '525.040', 'text': 'a crater, Arlland stood on the edge,'}, {'start': '522.560', 'end': '527.760', 'text': 'visor lifted, staring down into the'}, {'start': '525.040', 'end': '531.040', 'text': 'smoke. The comms crackled. "Captain'}, {'start': '527.760', 'end': '533.279', 'text': 'Drax, this is Admiral Solless." Zoral 5'}, {'start': '531.040', 'end': '535.839', 'text': 'confirmed. You are green lit for phase'}, {'start': '533.279', 'end': '538.640', 'text': '2, he replied without hesitation.'}, {'start': '535.839', 'end': '541.279', 'text': 'Understood. Phase 2 commences. We are'}, {'start': '538.640', 'end': '544.000', 'text': 'not done. Because Earth had only just'}, {'start': '541.279', 'end': '546.399', 'text': 'started answering on the crystalline'}, {'start': '544.000', 'end': '549.200', 'text': 'world of Vexor Prime. Deep within the'}, {'start': '546.399', 'end': '552.720', 'text': "Triand Dominion's core systems, the High"}, {'start': '549.200', 'end': '554.959', 'text': 'Command sat in silence. The walls of the'}, {'start': '552.720', 'end': '557.360', 'text': 'War Council chamber shimmerred with cold'}, {'start': '554.959', 'end': '560.480', 'text': 'light, every surface reflecting the'}, {'start': '557.360', 'end': '563.440', 'text': 'unease that hung heavy in the air.'}, {'start': '560.480', 'end': '565.839', 'text': 'Lord Commander Warlord Threx, head of'}, {'start': '563.440', 'end': '568.959', 'text': "the Dominion's military arm, watched the"}, {'start': '565.839', 'end': '571.760', 'text': 'live feed loop over and over. The'}, {'start': '568.959', 'end': '573.200', 'text': "destruction of Zoro 5's outpost, the"}, {'start': '571.760', 'end': '576.000', 'text': 'complete annihilation of their'}, {'start': '573.200', 'end': '578.320', 'text': "personnel, and Trian's corpses scattered"}, {'start': '576.000', 'end': '581.920', 'text': 'across volcanic stone like discarded'}, {'start': '578.320', 'end': '584.080', 'text': 'metal scraps. They came like animals. He'}, {'start': '581.920', 'end': '587.040', 'text': 'hissed his voice low and trembling with'}, {'start': '584.080', 'end': '591.240', 'text': 'something foreign to most trions.'}, {'start': '587.040', 'end': '594.000', 'text': 'fear, no diplomacy, no warning, just'}, {'start': '591.240', 'end': '596.080', 'text': 'carnage. Across the table, Minister'}, {'start': '594.000', 'end': '598.240', 'text': 'Krellin, cloaked in shimmering red,'}, {'start': '596.080', 'end': '600.640', 'text': 'responded in a tone that mixed contempt'}, {'start': '598.240', 'end': '603.440', 'text': 'and disbelief. What did we expect,'}, {'start': '600.640', 'end': '606.080', 'text': 'Warlord Threx? We butchered a colony'}, {'start': '603.440', 'end': '608.240', 'text': 'full of their civilians, children. They'}, {'start': '606.080', 'end': '610.600', 'text': 'are behaving as they always have,'}, {'start': '608.240', 'end': '612.959', 'text': 'brutally, emotionally, and'}, {'start': '610.600', 'end': '614.959', 'text': 'effectively. Another voice chimed in'}, {'start': '612.959', 'end': '617.600', 'text': 'from the far end, low, calm, and'}, {'start': '614.959', 'end': '619.440', 'text': 'unsettling. All eyes turned to the'}, {'start': '617.600', 'end': '621.160', 'text': 'shadowed corner where the overseer of'}, {'start': '619.440', 'end': '624.040', 'text': 'intelligence stood'}, {'start': '621.160', 'end': '627.120', 'text': 'unmoving. We underestimated them, she'}, {'start': '624.040', 'end': '629.399', 'text': 'stated. As always, Earth has spent two'}, {'start': '627.120', 'end': '631.600', 'text': 'generations pretending to be soft and'}, {'start': '629.399', 'end': '633.760', 'text': 'peaceful. But they never lost their'}, {'start': '631.600', 'end': '637.320', 'text': "taste for war. They've just been waiting"}, {'start': '633.760', 'end': '640.240', 'text': 'for a reason, and we gave it to them.'}, {'start': '637.320', 'end': '642.000', 'text': 'Warlord Threx growled. A map of the'}, {'start': '640.240', 'end': '644.640', 'text': 'quadrant hovered in the center of the'}, {'start': '642.000', 'end': '646.959', 'text': 'chamber. Red Triven controlled zones'}, {'start': '644.640', 'end': '650.000', 'text': 'blinked in sharp contrast to the growing'}, {'start': '646.959', 'end': '652.480', 'text': "blue flickers. Earth's fleet movements."}, {'start': '650.000', 'end': '655.000', 'text': 'The seventh fleet had split after Zoral'}, {'start': '652.480', 'end': '657.839', 'text': '5 taking separate vectors into Triven'}, {'start': '655.000', 'end': '660.079', 'text': 'territory, striking supply lines, fuel'}, {'start': '657.839', 'end': '662.680', 'text': 'depots, and communications towers with'}, {'start': '660.079', 'end': '664.839', 'text': "mechanical precision. They didn't leave"}, {'start': '662.680', 'end': '667.600', 'text': "survivors. They're not seeking"}, {'start': '664.839', 'end': '669.640', 'text': 'territory. The overseer continued,'}, {'start': '667.600', 'end': '672.839', 'text': '"They\'re not even establishing command'}, {'start': '669.640', 'end': '675.279', 'text': "centers. This isn't conquest. It's"}, {'start': '672.839', 'end': '678.360', 'text': 'retribution. Every move they make is'}, {'start': '675.279', 'end': '681.120', 'text': 'meant to humiliate us. A long silence'}, {'start': '678.360', 'end': '683.120', 'text': 'followed. For a species like the Trions,'}, {'start': '681.120', 'end': '685.320', 'text': 'who saw themselves as the apex of'}, {'start': '683.120', 'end': '688.000', 'text': 'galactic civilization, this was'}, {'start': '685.320', 'end': '690.320', 'text': 'unthinkable. They had crushed empires,'}, {'start': '688.000', 'end': '692.800', 'text': 'enslaved entire races, and subjugated'}, {'start': '690.320', 'end': '694.640', 'text': 'systems without blinking. And now their'}, {'start': '692.800', 'end': '697.200', 'text': 'pride was bleeding under the boots of'}, {'start': '694.640', 'end': '700.720', 'text': 'angry humans from a blue planet they'}, {'start': '697.200', 'end': '703.120', 'text': 'once considered backward and irrelevant.'}, {'start': '700.720', 'end': '707.040', 'text': 'Warlord Threx slammed his fist against'}, {'start': '703.120', 'end': '710.399', 'text': 'the table. We need to hit back hard.'}, {'start': '707.040', 'end': '713.040', 'text': 'Show them who the Dominion is. No, the'}, {'start': '710.399', 'end': '715.079', 'text': "Overseer said coolly. That's exactly"}, {'start': '713.040', 'end': '717.360', 'text': 'what they want.'}, {'start': '715.079', 'end': '719.920', 'text': 'Escalation. Right now, the Council of'}, {'start': '717.360', 'end': '722.800', 'text': 'Worlds watches us. If we strike Earth'}, {'start': '719.920', 'end': '726.920', 'text': 'directly, we lose political cover. Our'}, {'start': '722.800', 'end': '730.000', 'text': 'best option is to stall. We offer terms.'}, {'start': '726.920', 'end': '733.279', 'text': 'Apologies. Anything to buy time. Warlord'}, {'start': '730.000', 'end': '736.160', 'text': 'Thre scoffed. "You want us to beg? I'}, {'start': '733.279', 'end': '738.880', 'text': 'want us to survive." But it was already'}, {'start': '736.160', 'end': '741.399', 'text': 'too late. Far from Vexer Prime, in a'}, {'start': '738.880', 'end': '744.480', 'text': 'hidden relay station orbiting a dying'}, {'start': '741.399', 'end': '746.399', 'text': "star, Earth's cyber warfare unit had"}, {'start': '744.480', 'end': '748.320', 'text': 'intercepted a highlevel trian'}, {'start': '746.399', 'end': '750.800', 'text': 'transmission detailing refugee'}, {'start': '748.320', 'end': '754.160', 'text': 'transports leaving military hubs,'}, {'start': '750.800', 'end': '756.800', 'text': 'civilian ships, vulnerable targets.'}, {'start': '754.160', 'end': '759.120', 'text': 'Admiral Rea Solless stood silently as'}, {'start': '756.800', 'end': '762.160', 'text': 'the decoded message played before her.'}, {'start': '759.120', 'end': '765.160', 'text': 'her jaw tight, her eyes cold. Did they'}, {'start': '762.160', 'end': '767.839', 'text': 'spare our children? She asked no one in'}, {'start': '765.160', 'end': '770.800', 'text': 'particular. "Did they offer apologies'}, {'start': '767.839', 'end': '773.279', 'text': 'when Sariah 4 burned?" "No, ma\'am," came'}, {'start': '770.800', 'end': '776.480', 'text': 'the reply from her exo. "They made an'}, {'start': '773.279', 'end': '778.800', 'text': 'example of us." "Good," she stated.'}, {'start': '776.480', 'end': '781.440', 'text': '"Then we\'ll return to the lesson."'}, {'start': '778.800', 'end': '784.000', 'text': 'Triple it orders were sent. The fifth'}, {'start': '781.440', 'end': '786.399', 'text': 'and 9th battalions were redirected.'}, {'start': '784.000', 'end': '788.240', 'text': 'Civilian hubs or not, if those stations'}, {'start': '786.399', 'end': '791.200', 'text': "supported the Dominion's war machine,"}, {'start': '788.240', 'end': '793.120', 'text': 'they were now targets. Across the galaxy'}, {'start': '791.200', 'end': '796.240', 'text': "systems, once distant from Earth's"}, {'start': '793.120', 'end': '798.160', 'text': 'influence, now watched with unease. On'}, {'start': '796.240', 'end': '800.480', 'text': "neutral planets, news feeds couldn't"}, {'start': '798.160', 'end': '802.320', 'text': 'stop showing the footage. Triven fleets'}, {'start': '800.480', 'end': '804.160', 'text': 'were decimated fortress worlds in'}, {'start': '802.320', 'end': '806.560', 'text': 'flames. And most chilling of all the'}, {'start': '804.160', 'end': '809.360', 'text': "human soldiers, they didn't chant,"}, {'start': '806.560', 'end': '812.800', 'text': "didn't celebrate. They just killed."}, {'start': '809.360', 'end': '814.800', 'text': 'Efficient, silent, unforgiving, and'}, {'start': '812.800', 'end': '818.920', 'text': 'something deeper began to ripple through'}, {'start': '814.800', 'end': '822.079', 'text': 'the stars. Fear, yes, but also'}, {'start': '818.920', 'end': '824.480', 'text': 'admiration. The weak races, the ones the'}, {'start': '822.079', 'end': '826.880', 'text': 'Trions had ruled through terror, began'}, {'start': '824.480', 'end': '830.320', 'text': "to whisper. Earth's name with a"}, {'start': '826.880', 'end': '832.160', 'text': 'different tone. Maybe, just maybe, this'}, {'start': '830.320', 'end': '835.399', 'text': 'was the species that could finally break'}, {'start': '832.160', 'end': '837.920', 'text': "the Dominion's hold."}, {'start': '835.399', 'end': '840.480', 'text': 'Elias Vaughn, still hiding among the'}, {'start': '837.920', 'end': '842.639', 'text': 'ruins of Sariah 4, with his daughter,'}, {'start': '840.480', 'end': '846.240', 'text': 'received the first encoded message a few'}, {'start': '842.639', 'end': '848.560', 'text': 'days later. It was short, blunt. The'}, {'start': '846.240', 'end': '852.000', 'text': 'seventh fleet has struck Zoro. Five is'}, {'start': '848.560', 'end': '854.320', 'text': "no more. We're coming for the rest. He"}, {'start': '852.000', 'end': '856.000', 'text': 'stared at the message for a long time.'}, {'start': '854.320', 'end': '859.360', 'text': 'Then, for the first time since that'}, {'start': '856.000', 'end': '861.360', 'text': 'horrible night, he let himself smile.'}, {'start': '859.360', 'end': '864.160', 'text': 'Inside the political chambers of New'}, {'start': '861.360', 'end': '866.560', 'text': "Geneva, Earth's capital on Luna Prime,"}, {'start': '864.160', 'end': '868.480', 'text': 'the mood was anything but united.'}, {'start': '866.560', 'end': '871.519', 'text': 'Holographic projections buzzed around'}, {'start': '868.480', 'end': '874.560', 'text': 'the council floor. Footage of burning'}, {'start': '871.519', 'end': '877.040', 'text': 'outposts, devastated space stations, and'}, {'start': '874.560', 'end': '878.600', 'text': 'reports of rising civilian casualties'}, {'start': '877.040', 'end': '881.120', 'text': 'within Trian'}, {'start': '878.600', 'end': '884.240', 'text': "territory. The Seventh Fleet wasn't"}, {'start': '881.120', 'end': '886.639', 'text': 'slowing down. If anything, it had become'}, {'start': '884.240', 'end': '888.639', 'text': "more brutal with each victory. Earth's"}, {'start': '886.639', 'end': '889.560', 'text': "soldiers weren't just fighting, they"}, {'start': '888.639', 'end': '891.560', 'text': 'were'}, {'start': '889.560', 'end': '894.079', 'text': 'erasing. Senator'}, {'start': '891.560', 'end': '896.399', 'text': 'Elra Meyer stood at the center of the'}, {'start': '894.079', 'end': '898.800', 'text': 'storm, her voice sharp, echoing through'}, {'start': '896.399', 'end': '901.519', 'text': 'the rotunda. We are becoming the very'}, {'start': '898.800', 'end': '903.480', 'text': "thing we swore to resist. This isn't"}, {'start': '901.519', 'end': '906.800', 'text': "war. It's"}, {'start': '903.480', 'end': '909.519', 'text': 'annihilation. Across from her defense,'}, {'start': '906.800', 'end': '911.560', 'text': 'Secretary Defense Chief Corantine leaned'}, {'start': '909.519', 'end': '913.519', 'text': 'forward, cold-eyed and'}, {'start': '911.560', 'end': '916.639', 'text': "unapologetic. We didn't start this,"}, {'start': '913.519', 'end': '918.880', 'text': 'Senator. They did. They butchered our'}, {'start': '916.639', 'end': '921.199', 'text': "children. This isn't about diplomacy"}, {'start': '918.880', 'end': '924.320', 'text': "anymore. It's about never letting that"}, {'start': '921.199', 'end': '927.279', 'text': "happen again. You're killing civilians."}, {'start': '924.320', 'end': '930.399', 'text': "Lyra shot back. You're bombing refugee"}, {'start': '927.279', 'end': '932.440', 'text': 'arcs. The Council of Worlds is watching.'}, {'start': '930.399', 'end': '934.920', 'text': "We're being labeled a rogue"}, {'start': '932.440', 'end': '938.199', 'text': "species. Morgan didn't"}, {'start': '934.920', 'end': '940.560', 'text': 'flinch. Good. Let them'}, {'start': '938.199', 'end': '942.480', 'text': 'watch. Let them see what happens when'}, {'start': '940.560', 'end': '944.399', 'text': 'you touch Earth.'}, {'start': '942.480', 'end': '946.720', 'text': 'The chamber descended into a shouting'}, {'start': '944.399', 'end': '949.360', 'text': 'match, half calling for restraint, half'}, {'start': '946.720', 'end': '951.680', 'text': 'demanding escalation. Outside the'}, {'start': '949.360', 'end': '954.160', 'text': 'political storm, however, the reality'}, {'start': '951.680', 'end': '956.480', 'text': "was clearer. Earth's people, the"}, {'start': '954.160', 'end': '958.959', 'text': 'ordinary ones, the workers and builders'}, {'start': '956.480', 'end': '961.680', 'text': 'and healers were angry. They remembered'}, {'start': '958.959', 'end': '963.839', 'text': "Sariah 4, and most of them didn't care"}, {'start': '961.680', 'end': '967.040', 'text': 'who got burned as long as someone paid'}, {'start': '963.839', 'end': '969.279', 'text': 'for it. On the ground, that same fury'}, {'start': '967.040', 'end': '971.600', 'text': "simmerred beneath every soldier's armor."}, {'start': '969.279', 'end': '973.839', 'text': 'Captain Kale Riven crouched behind the'}, {'start': '971.600', 'end': '977.040', 'text': 'smoldering wreck of a Trion hover tank.'}, {'start': '973.839', 'end': '979.199', 'text': 'Blood drying across his visor. The air'}, {'start': '977.040', 'end': '982.240', 'text': 'was thick with smoke and the stench of'}, {'start': '979.199', 'end': '984.880', 'text': 'scorched metal. A sharp pain pulsed in'}, {'start': '982.240', 'end': '987.440', 'text': "his side. He'd taken shrapnel during the"}, {'start': '984.880', 'end': '990.560', 'text': "breach of Varcos 3, the Dominion's"}, {'start': '987.440', 'end': '992.959', 'text': "primary munitions depot. Didn't matter."}, {'start': '990.560', 'end': '995.120', 'text': "They'd taken it. His squad was down to"}, {'start': '992.959', 'end': '998.320', 'text': 'half strength, but the depot was nothing'}, {'start': '995.120', 'end': '1000.560', 'text': 'more than rubble now. Medic. He growled'}, {'start': '998.320', 'end': '1002.839', 'text': 'into the calm. Corporal Santi slid'}, {'start': '1000.560', 'end': '1006.600', 'text': 'beside him already pulling out a'}, {'start': '1002.839', 'end': '1009.600', 'text': 'cauterizer. Sir, you need evac. We hold'}, {'start': '1006.600', 'end': '1012.560', 'text': 'position. Arlland grunted. We wait for'}, {'start': '1009.600', 'end': '1015.279', 'text': "the ninth, but they're not due for"}, {'start': '1012.560', 'end': '1018.959', 'text': "they'll come, he interrupted. We finish"}, {'start': '1015.279', 'end': '1021.120', 'text': 'this. No half measures. As Santi treated'}, {'start': '1018.959', 'end': '1026.240', 'text': 'the wound, a faint noise buzzed through'}, {'start': '1021.120', 'end': '1030.240', 'text': "the calm. A child's voice. Is Is anyone"}, {'start': '1026.240', 'end': '1033.120', 'text': 'there? Arllin froze. The voice repeated.'}, {'start': '1030.240', 'end': '1036.000', 'text': "We're in the tunnels. My mom is hurt."}, {'start': '1033.120', 'end': '1038.480', 'text': 'Please, Santi looked at him uncertain.'}, {'start': '1036.000', 'end': '1042.600', 'text': 'We thought they evacuated this place,'}, {'start': '1038.480', 'end': '1046.079', 'text': "she murmured softly. They didn't, Arlin"}, {'start': '1042.600', 'end': '1048.919', 'text': 'muttered. Or they lied. He activated his'}, {'start': '1046.079', 'end': '1054.160', 'text': 'helmet. Mike. Identify'}, {'start': '1048.919', 'end': '1056.240', 'text': "yourself. Who are you? I'm I'm surreal."}, {'start': '1054.160', 'end': '1059.200', 'text': 'My mom worked the machines. They shot'}, {'start': '1056.240', 'end': '1062.799', 'text': "her. She's bleeding. The voice was"}, {'start': '1059.200', 'end': '1065.120', 'text': 'young. Too young. For a long second,'}, {'start': '1062.799', 'end': '1067.440', 'text': "Arlin didn't speak. The rage that had"}, {'start': '1065.120', 'end': '1069.120', 'text': 'driven him for weeks twisted in his gut.'}, {'start': '1067.440', 'end': '1072.200', 'text': "And suddenly, it wasn't so clean"}, {'start': '1069.120', 'end': '1075.520', 'text': 'anymore. His orders had been clear. No'}, {'start': '1072.200', 'end': '1077.679', 'text': 'survivors, no mercy. "But this wasn\'t a'}, {'start': '1075.520', 'end': '1081.039', 'text': "soldier calling. This was a child. I'm"}, {'start': '1077.679', 'end': '1084.480', 'text': 'sending help," he said. Finally, quiet'}, {'start': '1081.039', 'end': '1087.200', 'text': "and bitter, Santi blinked. Sir, we're"}, {'start': '1084.480', 'end': '1089.720', 'text': 'not the Trions," Arlland muttered. "Not'}, {'start': '1087.200', 'end': '1092.640', 'text': 'yet," he tapped his calm. "Mark the'}, {'start': '1089.720', 'end': '1093.799', 'text': 'signal. Pull a field team. Bring them'}, {'start': '1092.640', 'end': '1096.840', 'text': 'out'}, {'start': '1093.799', 'end': '1100.480', 'text': 'alive." And just like that, a ripple'}, {'start': '1096.840', 'end': '1102.480', 'text': 'started. Small quiet, but it mattered'}, {'start': '1100.480', 'end': '1104.600', 'text': 'because behind the armor beneath the'}, {'start': '1102.480', 'end': '1108.799', 'text': 'fury, there were still'}, {'start': '1104.600', 'end': '1110.880', 'text': 'choices. Back on Sariah 4, Elias Vaughn'}, {'start': '1108.799', 'end': '1112.720', 'text': 'knelt in the shattered temple where his'}, {'start': '1110.880', 'end': '1114.640', 'text': 'wife had died.'}, {'start': '1112.720', 'end': '1116.799', 'text': 'He placed a small memory stone beneath'}, {'start': '1114.640', 'end': '1119.919', 'text': 'the altar, tears streaking through the'}, {'start': '1116.799', 'end': '1122.799', 'text': 'ash on his face. His daughter sat beside'}, {'start': '1119.919', 'end': '1126.320', 'text': 'him, silent. Then a low hum filled the'}, {'start': '1122.799', 'end': '1128.400', 'text': "air. A massive ship, Earth's Grace, a"}, {'start': '1126.320', 'end': '1130.880', 'text': 'mobile hospital vessel, descended into'}, {'start': '1128.400', 'end': '1133.600', 'text': "the colony's remains, its insignia"}, {'start': '1130.880', 'end': '1136.720', 'text': 'glowing blue in the fading light. They'}, {'start': '1133.600', 'end': '1140.640', 'text': 'were finally coming home, not just to'}, {'start': '1136.720', 'end': '1143.280', 'text': 'avenge, but maybe to rebuild. Far across'}, {'start': '1140.640', 'end': '1145.760', 'text': 'the stars, the Trian overseer watched'}, {'start': '1143.280', 'end': '1147.760', 'text': 'another report roll in. Human units'}, {'start': '1145.760', 'end': '1149.480', 'text': 'spared children evacuating injured and'}, {'start': '1147.760', 'end': '1152.799', 'text': 'rebuilding what they destroyed.'}, {'start': '1149.480', 'end': '1155.440', 'text': '"Emotion," she murmured softly. "Is it'}, {'start': '1152.799', 'end': '1158.000', 'text': 'their curse?" she paused. "Or their'}, {'start': '1155.440', 'end': '1159.919', 'text': 'greatest weapon, the Trian High Council'}, {'start': '1158.000', 'end': '1161.760', 'text': 'convened in a subterranean chamber'}, {'start': '1159.919', 'end': '1164.160', 'text': 'buried beneath the core fortress of'}, {'start': '1161.760', 'end': '1167.039', 'text': 'Vexer Prime, far from the floating glass'}, {'start': '1164.160', 'end': '1169.120', 'text': 'towers the public believed held power.'}, {'start': '1167.039', 'end': '1171.360', 'text': 'The real decisions, the ones drenched in'}, {'start': '1169.120', 'end': '1172.520', 'text': 'blood and desperation, were always made'}, {'start': '1171.360', 'end': '1176.559', 'text': 'in the'}, {'start': '1172.520', 'end': '1179.440', 'text': 'dark. Lord Commander Warlord Threx stood'}, {'start': '1176.559', 'end': '1183.760', 'text': 'at the center, trembling, not from fear,'}, {'start': '1179.440', 'end': '1185.600', 'text': 'but rage. They hesitated. He spat,'}, {'start': '1183.760', 'end': '1189.039', 'text': 'slamming his clawed hand against the'}, {'start': '1185.600', 'end': '1191.440', 'text': 'Obsidian console. They spared civilians.'}, {'start': '1189.039', 'end': '1193.600', 'text': "They're sending in relief ships now."}, {'start': '1191.440', 'end': '1195.200', 'text': "Hospital vessels. They're rebuilding our"}, {'start': '1193.600', 'end': '1197.679', 'text': 'ruins.'}, {'start': '1195.200', 'end': '1200.400', 'text': 'Minister Dravara, pale and gaunt, said'}, {'start': '1197.679', 'end': '1203.679', 'text': 'nothing for a moment. Then with a slow'}, {'start': '1200.400', 'end': '1205.960', 'text': 'blink, she answered. And yet every one'}, {'start': '1203.679', 'end': '1209.360', 'text': 'of our garrisons in sector 12 has'}, {'start': '1205.960', 'end': '1212.000', 'text': 'fallen. Our minds are silent. Our fleets'}, {'start': '1209.360', 'end': '1214.080', 'text': 'are scattered. Call their mercy what you'}, {'start': '1212.000', 'end': '1217.120', 'text': "want, commander, but don't mistake it"}, {'start': '1214.080', 'end': '1220.960', 'text': 'for weakness. The galaxy is watching us'}, {'start': '1217.120', 'end': '1222.720', 'text': 'bow to humans. Warlord Threx growled.'}, {'start': '1220.960', 'end': '1224.799', 'text': 'This was supposed to be a lesson for the'}, {'start': '1222.720', 'end': '1227.200', 'text': 'lesser species. And now they chant'}, {'start': '1224.799', 'end': '1228.520', 'text': "Earth's name in back alleys like it's a"}, {'start': '1227.200', 'end': '1230.840', 'text': 'godamn'}, {'start': '1228.520', 'end': '1233.360', 'text': 'salvation. The overseer entered'}, {'start': '1230.840', 'end': '1236.400', 'text': 'silently, her robes fluttering behind'}, {'start': '1233.360', 'end': '1238.159', 'text': 'her like shadows given form. Her voice'}, {'start': '1236.400', 'end': '1240.559', 'text': 'carried with it a chill that sucked the'}, {'start': '1238.159', 'end': '1242.559', 'text': "heat from the room. The humans didn't"}, {'start': '1240.559', 'end': '1246.320', 'text': 'come to take land. They came to break'}, {'start': '1242.559', 'end': '1248.880', 'text': 'us. And slowly they are. She pulled up a'}, {'start': '1246.320', 'end': '1251.679', 'text': 'hollow map revealing red blinking alerts'}, {'start': '1248.880', 'end': '1254.840', 'text': 'across key sectors. Entire outposts'}, {'start': '1251.679', 'end': '1257.039', 'text': 'marked as lost, not just taken,'}, {'start': '1254.840', 'end': '1258.799', 'text': 'obliterated. Even their own soldiers'}, {'start': '1257.039', 'end': '1261.360', 'text': 'were starting to defect or desert'}, {'start': '1258.799', 'end': '1263.200', 'text': "questioning orders. Word of Earth's"}, {'start': '1261.360', 'end': '1265.280', 'text': 'retaliation had begun to spread among'}, {'start': '1263.200', 'end': '1267.919', 'text': 'Dominion civilians. And for the first'}, {'start': '1265.280', 'end': '1269.919', 'text': 'time in centuries, fear turned inward.'}, {'start': '1267.919', 'end': '1271.679', 'text': '"There\'s a rumor," she stated coldly,'}, {'start': '1269.919', 'end': '1273.840', 'text': 'that Earth has developed something, a'}, {'start': '1271.679', 'end': '1275.679', 'text': 'weapon, a planet cracker, a final'}, {'start': '1273.840', 'end': '1279.000', 'text': 'strike.'}, {'start': '1275.679', 'end': '1282.960', 'text': 'Warlord Threx scoffed.'}, {'start': '1279.000', 'end': '1285.039', 'text': 'Propaganda. No, she answered. Hope. He'}, {'start': '1282.960', 'end': '1287.000', 'text': "looked at her confused. They're letting"}, {'start': '1285.039', 'end': '1289.600', 'text': "the galaxy believe they're capable of"}, {'start': '1287.000', 'end': '1292.000', 'text': "extinction. Level response, and they're"}, {'start': '1289.600', 'end': '1295.280', 'text': "not denying it. That's more powerful"}, {'start': '1292.000', 'end': '1297.520', 'text': "than any real weapon. Meanwhile, Earth's"}, {'start': '1295.280', 'end': '1299.760', 'text': 'fleets were tightening their noose.'}, {'start': '1297.520', 'end': '1302.720', 'text': 'Admiral Solace stood before a row of'}, {'start': '1299.760', 'end': '1304.960', 'text': 'hollow terminals as reports flooded in.'}, {'start': '1302.720', 'end': '1307.360', 'text': 'Another Trian garrison surrendered'}, {'start': '1304.960', 'end': '1310.320', 'text': 'without a fight. Several Dominion'}, {'start': '1307.360', 'end': '1312.799', 'text': 'occupied moons now raised neutral flags.'}, {'start': '1310.320', 'end': '1315.520', 'text': 'The dominoes were falling fast, but she'}, {'start': '1312.799', 'end': '1318.480', 'text': "didn't look pleased because behind her"}, {'start': '1315.520', 'end': '1320.720', 'text': 'stood Ambassador Envoy Silent Brack,'}, {'start': '1318.480', 'end': '1322.919', 'text': "Earth's liaison to the Council of Worlds"}, {'start': '1320.720', 'end': '1326.120', 'text': 'and one of the last voices calling for'}, {'start': '1322.919', 'end': '1329.760', 'text': 'diplomacy. This has gone too far, he'}, {'start': '1326.120', 'end': '1332.480', 'text': "murmured. Solless didn't turn. Too far"}, {'start': '1329.760', 'end': '1335.600', 'text': "was Sariah the four. We've destabilized"}, {'start': '1332.480', 'end': '1337.480', 'text': 'half the quadrant. Millions are fleeing.'}, {'start': '1335.600', 'end': '1340.400', 'text': 'There are whispers of galactic'}, {'start': '1337.480', 'end': '1344.159', 'text': 'sanctions. She finally looked at him,'}, {'start': '1340.400', 'end': '1346.679', 'text': 'eyes cold as steel. Let them whisper.'}, {'start': '1344.159', 'end': '1349.200', 'text': "You're not just fighting Tribones"}, {'start': '1346.679', 'end': '1352.559', 'text': "anymore. You're rewriting Earth's"}, {'start': '1349.200', 'end': '1355.720', 'text': 'identity from survivor to conqueror.'}, {'start': '1352.559', 'end': '1358.159', 'text': 'Solless stepped closer, low and'}, {'start': '1355.720', 'end': '1360.559', 'text': "deliberate. Maybe it's time the galaxy"}, {'start': '1358.159', 'end': '1361.720', 'text': 'feared us a little.'}, {'start': '1360.559', 'end': '1364.480', 'text': 'Back in the'}, {'start': '1361.720', 'end': '1367.559', 'text': 'field, Captain Kale Ribbon sat in'}, {'start': '1364.480', 'end': '1370.559', 'text': 'silence beside the young Triven girl.'}, {'start': '1367.559', 'end': '1372.559', 'text': 'Surreal, she sat cross-legged, arms'}, {'start': '1370.559', 'end': '1374.960', 'text': 'wrapped around herself, watching the'}, {'start': '1372.559', 'end': '1376.480', 'text': 'medics tend to her mother. Her skin'}, {'start': '1374.960', 'end': '1379.120', 'text': 'shimmerred faintly under the field'}, {'start': '1376.480', 'end': '1381.679', 'text': 'light, the scaled texture of her species'}, {'start': '1379.120', 'end': '1384.120', 'text': 'catching the glow in strange patterns.'}, {'start': '1381.679', 'end': '1386.720', 'text': '"You\'re not like the others," she'}, {'start': '1384.120', 'end': '1389.600', 'text': 'murmured. "I\'m not sure that\'s a good'}, {'start': '1386.720', 'end': '1392.000', 'text': 'thing," Arllin replied. He hadn\'t been'}, {'start': '1389.600', 'end': '1394.720', 'text': 'sleeping. Every face he saw in the'}, {'start': '1392.000', 'end': '1396.799', 'text': 'smoke. Every building he torched. He'}, {'start': '1394.720', 'end': '1400.720', 'text': "kept wondering if he'd have been spared"}, {'start': '1396.799', 'end': '1403.520', 'text': 'if the sides were flipped. Probably not.'}, {'start': '1400.720', 'end': '1406.760', 'text': 'She tilted her head. You look sad when'}, {'start': '1403.520', 'end': '1410.799', 'text': 'you win. That hit harder than any'}, {'start': '1406.760', 'end': '1413.200', 'text': "wound. Arlin rose slowly. War isn't"}, {'start': '1410.799', 'end': '1416.080', 'text': "about winning. It's about surviving what"}, {'start': '1413.200', 'end': '1419.760', 'text': "comes after. He didn't know why he'd"}, {'start': '1416.080', 'end': '1420.520', 'text': 'saved her. Maybe guilt, maybe something'}, {'start': '1419.760', 'end': '1423.360', 'text': 'more'}, {'start': '1420.520', 'end': '1425.600', 'text': 'dangerous, remorse. But what scared him'}, {'start': '1423.360', 'end': '1428.400', 'text': "most was that part of him hadn't wanted"}, {'start': '1425.600', 'end': '1430.320', 'text': "to. He'd wanted to follow orders to burn"}, {'start': '1428.400', 'end': '1433.520', 'text': 'through every living thing in a Dominion'}, {'start': '1430.320', 'end': '1436.000', 'text': 'uniform child or not. He could feel'}, {'start': '1433.520', 'end': '1437.559', 'text': "himself changing, and he wasn't sure if"}, {'start': '1436.000', 'end': '1440.880', 'text': 'it was for better or'}, {'start': '1437.559', 'end': '1443.360', 'text': 'worse. Meanwhile, back on Sariah 4,'}, {'start': '1440.880', 'end': '1445.440', 'text': 'Elias Vaughn helped a team of engineers'}, {'start': '1443.360', 'end': '1448.240', 'text': 'lift debris from what used to be a water'}, {'start': '1445.440', 'end': '1452.240', 'text': 'purification center. He moved like a man'}, {'start': '1448.240', 'end': '1454.640', 'text': 'with purpose now. Not just grief. More'}, {'start': '1452.240', 'end': '1457.120', 'text': 'ships were landing every day. Earth was'}, {'start': '1454.640', 'end': '1459.360', 'text': 'rebuilding the colony. But this time,'}, {'start': '1457.120', 'end': '1461.559', 'text': 'there were automated defense systems,'}, {'start': '1459.360', 'end': '1464.960', 'text': 'satellite shields, and armed'}, {'start': '1461.559', 'end': '1467.760', 'text': 'guards. Never again. His daughter stood'}, {'start': '1464.960', 'end': '1470.080', 'text': 'nearby, holding a small Earth flag. She'}, {'start': '1467.760', 'end': '1471.080', 'text': 'waved it at the newcomers, a tiny sign'}, {'start': '1470.080', 'end': '1473.919', 'text': 'of'}, {'start': '1471.080', 'end': '1476.559', 'text': 'resilience. Jules watched her, his chest'}, {'start': '1473.919', 'end': '1479.360', 'text': 'tight with both pride and dread. They'}, {'start': '1476.559', 'end': '1482.480', 'text': 'were alive. They were surviving. But at'}, {'start': '1479.360', 'end': '1484.880', 'text': 'what cost? The fires of war crept closer'}, {'start': '1482.480', 'end': '1486.880', 'text': 'to Vexor Prime. For all its fortified'}, {'start': '1484.880', 'end': '1489.279', 'text': 'walls and deep planetary shields, the'}, {'start': '1486.880', 'end': '1492.080', 'text': 'Trian capital now pulsed with fear.'}, {'start': '1489.279', 'end': '1494.720', 'text': "Every day brought new updates. Earth's"}, {'start': '1492.080', 'end': '1497.440', 'text': 'fleet drawing nearer systems going dark'}, {'start': '1494.720', 'end': '1499.600', 'text': 'and allies defecting or fleeing. Even'}, {'start': '1497.440', 'end': '1502.080', 'text': 'the inner sanctums murmured softly of'}, {'start': '1499.600', 'end': '1504.159', 'text': 'collapse. In the hidden corridors'}, {'start': '1502.080', 'end': '1506.480', 'text': 'beneath the great citadel, Lord'}, {'start': '1504.159', 'end': '1508.480', 'text': 'Commander Warlord Threx met with a'}, {'start': '1506.480', 'end': '1509.400', 'text': 'figure most of the Dominion pretended'}, {'start': '1508.480', 'end': '1513.120', 'text': "didn't"}, {'start': '1509.400', 'end': '1515.840', 'text': 'exist. Phantom Orin of the shadow accord'}, {'start': '1513.120', 'end': '1517.880', 'text': 'in exile. A traitor once stripped of'}, {'start': '1515.840', 'end': '1519.840', 'text': 'rank, now summoned in'}, {'start': '1517.880', 'end': '1522.320', 'text': 'desperation. You said you had a'}, {'start': '1519.840', 'end': '1524.320', 'text': 'solution. Warlord Threx said his voice'}, {'start': '1522.320', 'end': '1526.960', 'text': 'heavy with shame.'}, {'start': '1524.320', 'end': '1529.279', 'text': 'Phantom Orin smirked his body shrouded'}, {'start': '1526.960', 'end': '1532.320', 'text': "in sleek black armor that didn't belong"}, {'start': '1529.279', 'end': '1534.960', 'text': 'to any Trian military division. I said,'}, {'start': '1532.320', 'end': '1537.520', 'text': '"I had a weapon." He raised a small'}, {'start': '1534.960', 'end': '1540.240', 'text': 'device, its core glowing, a pulsing'}, {'start': '1537.520', 'end': '1542.480', 'text': 'violet. The last whisper, he said, was a'}, {'start': '1540.240', 'end': '1545.279', 'text': 'bionuro disruptor designed to wipe a'}, {'start': '1542.480', 'end': '1547.840', 'text': 'planet clean. "No cities burned, no'}, {'start': '1545.279', 'end': '1551.279', 'text': 'structures harmed, just the mines gone'}, {'start': '1547.840', 'end': '1554.880', 'text': "in a day. Warlord Threx's nostrils"}, {'start': '1551.279', 'end': '1557.360', 'text': "flared. You'd use this on Earth? No,"}, {'start': '1554.880', 'end': '1559.919', 'text': "Phantom Orin answered. I'd use it on"}, {'start': '1557.360', 'end': '1562.200', 'text': 'Luna Prime, their capital. Take their'}, {'start': '1559.919', 'end': '1566.640', 'text': 'voice away. Make them too broken to'}, {'start': '1562.200', 'end': '1568.559', 'text': 'speak. Warlord. Threx hesitated. Even he'}, {'start': '1566.640', 'end': '1570.799', 'text': 'could feel how wrong it was. But the'}, {'start': '1568.559', 'end': '1574.000', 'text': 'Dominion was bleeding. They were losing'}, {'start': '1570.799', 'end': '1575.880', 'text': 'not just a war, but face dignity power.'}, {'start': '1574.000', 'end': '1578.400', 'text': "Everything they'd built for"}, {'start': '1575.880', 'end': '1581.600', 'text': 'millennia. We deploy it only if Earth'}, {'start': '1578.400', 'end': '1585.600', 'text': 'enters our orbit, he said finally, voice'}, {'start': '1581.600', 'end': '1587.240', 'text': 'dry. Only then, Phantom Orin smiled.'}, {'start': '1585.600', 'end': '1590.400', 'text': 'Then prepare to press the'}, {'start': '1587.240', 'end': '1593.159', 'text': 'button. Meanwhile, Admiral Soliss stood'}, {'start': '1590.400', 'end': '1596.799', 'text': 'aboard the command bridge of the UEES'}, {'start': '1593.159', 'end': '1599.760', 'text': "Recker, Earth's newest dreadnot, a beast"}, {'start': '1596.799', 'end': '1601.679', 'text': 'of war never meant to leave Dryd do, but'}, {'start': '1599.760', 'end': '1603.960', 'text': 'now it spearheaded the assault group'}, {'start': '1601.679', 'end': '1607.320', 'text': 'aimed directly at Vexer'}, {'start': '1603.960', 'end': '1610.799', 'text': 'Prime. Soloulless stared at the star'}, {'start': '1607.320', 'end': '1614.559', 'text': "map. One system away, that's all that"}, {'start': '1610.799', 'end': '1617.760', 'text': 'was left. One jump. Still no response'}, {'start': '1614.559', 'end': '1619.440', 'text': 'from the Dominion? She asked. Only'}, {'start': '1617.760', 'end': '1621.919', 'text': 'static and scattered surrender'}, {'start': '1619.440', 'end': '1624.919', 'text': 'transmissions from surrounding systems,'}, {'start': '1621.919', 'end': '1629.279', 'text': "replied her comm's officer. She nodded"}, {'start': '1624.919', 'end': '1632.320', 'text': 'once. Tight. Send the final notice.'}, {'start': '1629.279', 'end': '1636.159', 'text': 'Vexer has 24 hours to surrender. And if'}, {'start': '1632.320', 'end': '1638.400', 'text': "they don't, Solace's jaw clenched. We"}, {'start': '1636.159', 'end': '1640.960', 'text': 'finish what they started. But not'}, {'start': '1638.400', 'end': '1644.000', 'text': 'everyone on board agreed. Captain Kyle'}, {'start': '1640.960', 'end': '1646.320', 'text': 'Riven, now promoted to field. Valor,'}, {'start': '1644.000', 'end': '1648.400', 'text': 'paced the viewing deck of the reckoner,'}, {'start': '1646.320', 'end': '1650.400', 'text': 'troubled Naira, and her mother had been'}, {'start': '1648.400', 'end': '1653.360', 'text': 'relocated to a neutral world under'}, {'start': '1650.400', 'end': '1655.760', 'text': "Earth's protection. Thanks to him, but"}, {'start': '1653.360', 'end': '1657.360', 'text': "it hadn't brought peace. He kept"}, {'start': '1655.760', 'end': '1660.000', 'text': "thinking of that girl's voice in the"}, {'start': '1657.360', 'end': '1662.320', 'text': "tunnels of his hesitation. He'd led"}, {'start': '1660.000', 'end': '1664.799', 'text': 'countless assaults, lost too many'}, {'start': '1662.320', 'end': '1666.320', 'text': 'friends, burned down outposts without'}, {'start': '1664.799', 'end': '1668.960', 'text': 'flinching.'}, {'start': '1666.320', 'end': '1671.679', 'text': 'But now so close to the end, he wondered'}, {'start': '1668.960', 'end': '1674.159', 'text': 'what would it change. Vexer Prime and'}, {'start': '1671.679', 'end': '1677.039', 'text': "Ashes wouldn't bring Sariah 4 back and"}, {'start': '1674.159', 'end': '1678.880', 'text': "wouldn't unburn the children. Was this"}, {'start': '1677.039', 'end': '1681.279', 'text': 'justice or vengeance dressing up as'}, {'start': '1678.880', 'end': '1683.960', 'text': 'duty? That night he stood outside'}, {'start': '1681.279', 'end': '1687.440', 'text': "Admiral Solless's office and requested"}, {'start': '1683.960', 'end': '1689.600', 'text': 'entry. Captain, she stated, surprised.'}, {'start': '1687.440', 'end': '1692.080', 'text': "You're not on this deck's rotation. I"}, {'start': '1689.600', 'end': '1693.679', 'text': 'need to speak about the final assault.'}, {'start': '1692.080', 'end': '1695.200', 'text': 'She motioned him in expression'}, {'start': '1693.679', 'end': '1697.200', 'text': 'unreadable.'}, {'start': '1695.200', 'end': '1700.080', 'text': 'I think we need to give them a way out,'}, {'start': '1697.200', 'end': '1702.960', 'text': "he said. Solless frowned. We've given"}, {'start': '1700.080', 'end': '1705.840', 'text': 'them enough. If we destroy them now, we'}, {'start': '1702.960', 'end': '1708.320', 'text': 'win, but we lose everything else. The'}, {'start': '1705.840', 'end': '1711.679', 'text': 'Council of Worlds will shut us out. The'}, {'start': '1708.320', 'end': '1714.320', 'text': 'galaxy will fear us, not respect us.'}, {'start': '1711.679', 'end': '1717.360', 'text': "This doesn't end with Vexor Prime. It"}, {'start': '1714.320', 'end': '1720.080', 'text': 'ends with what we become after. Are you'}, {'start': '1717.360', 'end': '1722.080', 'text': 'suggesting mercy? Solless asked, her'}, {'start': '1720.080', 'end': '1724.960', 'text': "voice heavy with judgment. I'm"}, {'start': '1722.080', 'end': '1727.840', 'text': 'suggesting strategy, he responded. We'}, {'start': '1724.960', 'end': '1730.399', 'text': 'beat them. Everyone knows it. Let them'}, {'start': '1727.840', 'end': '1732.720', 'text': 'surrender. Let their pride die while'}, {'start': '1730.399', 'end': '1734.640', 'text': "their people live. We don't have to turn"}, {'start': '1732.720', 'end': '1738.240', 'text': 'Earth into the thing they always claimed'}, {'start': '1734.640', 'end': '1741.520', 'text': 'we were. She leaned back, thinking it'}, {'start': '1738.240', 'end': '1743.480', 'text': 'was true. Every adviser had warned her.'}, {'start': '1741.520', 'end': '1746.159', 'text': 'Even Defense Chief'}, {'start': '1743.480', 'end': '1748.960', 'text': 'Corantine. The coldest man on her staff'}, {'start': '1746.159', 'end': '1752.080', 'text': 'had said privately, "The last step is'}, {'start': '1748.960', 'end': '1755.000', 'text': 'the one history remembers most. Outside'}, {'start': '1752.080', 'end': '1758.480', 'text': 'the ship, the stars stretched in perfect'}, {'start': '1755.000', 'end': '1760.799', 'text': 'silence. In the shadows of Vexer Prime,'}, {'start': '1758.480', 'end': '1763.840', 'text': 'Phantom Orin prepared the last whisper'}, {'start': '1760.799', 'end': '1766.240', 'text': 'for deployment. Inside the Reckoner,'}, {'start': '1763.840', 'end': '1768.240', 'text': 'Earth prepared for its final offensive.'}, {'start': '1766.240', 'end': '1770.679', 'text': 'And in the middle, a decision hovered'}, {'start': '1768.240', 'end': '1773.520', 'text': 'one that could define the fate of two'}, {'start': '1770.679', 'end': '1777.120', 'text': 'civilizations. Mercy or annihilation.'}, {'start': '1773.520', 'end': '1779.279', 'text': 'And the clock was ticking. The final 24'}, {'start': '1777.120', 'end': '1781.039', 'text': 'hours bled away like smoke from a dying'}, {'start': '1779.279', 'end': '1783.279', 'text': 'fire.'}, {'start': '1781.039', 'end': '1785.760', 'text': 'Admiral Solless stood in full uniform'}, {'start': '1783.279', 'end': '1787.679', 'text': 'before the reckoners war council.'}, {'start': '1785.760', 'end': '1789.919', 'text': "General's fleet commanders, data"}, {'start': '1787.679', 'end': '1792.399', 'text': 'analysts, and every high-ranking officer'}, {'start': '1789.919', 'end': '1794.159', 'text': 'in the fleet were present. A large'}, {'start': '1792.399', 'end': '1796.600', 'text': 'holographic timer hovered above the'}, {'start': '1794.159', 'end': '1800.399', 'text': 'center table.'}, {'start': '1796.600', 'end': '1802.200', 'text': '0000327 and ticking. No reply from Vexer'}, {'start': '1800.399', 'end': '1805.520', 'text': 'Prime. No'}, {'start': '1802.200', 'end': '1808.320', 'text': "surrender. She hadn't slept in 2 days."}, {'start': '1805.520', 'end': '1810.640', 'text': 'We proceed on schedule. Solless'}, {'start': '1808.320', 'end': '1813.120', 'text': 'announced. Her voice was still, but the'}, {'start': '1810.640', 'end': '1815.320', 'text': 'silence that followed said everything.'}, {'start': '1813.120', 'end': '1818.080', 'text': 'Even the war hardened looked'}, {'start': '1815.320', 'end': '1820.520', 'text': 'tired. Hollow. Captain Drax stood at the'}, {'start': '1818.080', 'end': '1823.440', 'text': 'far end of the chamber, arms crossed,'}, {'start': '1820.520', 'end': '1825.360', 'text': 'unreadable. He had set his peace. She'}, {'start': '1823.440', 'end': '1827.440', 'text': "hadn't shot him down, but she hadn't"}, {'start': '1825.360', 'end': '1830.000', 'text': 'agreed either. We launched the first'}, {'start': '1827.440', 'end': '1834.000', 'text': 'wave of disruptor pulses at Euro 300'}, {'start': '1830.000', 'end': '1836.480', 'text': 'galactic time. Solless continued. Target'}, {'start': '1834.000', 'end': '1839.600', 'text': 'outer defense rings. Once down, we moved'}, {'start': '1836.480', 'end': '1843.360', 'text': 'to primary atmospheric strikes. No boots'}, {'start': '1839.600', 'end': '1845.440', 'text': 'on the ground. Surgical swift final. As'}, {'start': '1843.360', 'end': '1848.559', 'text': 'the officers began to disperse, she'}, {'start': '1845.440', 'end': '1850.399', 'text': 'looked at Drax. Walk with me. They'}, {'start': '1848.559', 'end': '1852.559', 'text': 'stepped into the observation corridor'}, {'start': '1850.399', 'end': '1855.600', 'text': 'overlooking the vast dark stretch of'}, {'start': '1852.559', 'end': '1858.559', 'text': 'stars. Vexer Prime glittered faintly in'}, {'start': '1855.600', 'end': '1859.559', 'text': 'the distance. A cold, distant orb soon'}, {'start': '1858.559', 'end': '1862.000', 'text': 'to become'}, {'start': '1859.559', 'end': '1864.799', 'text': 'history. "Do you still believe they\'ll'}, {'start': '1862.000', 'end': '1866.080', 'text': 'surrender?" she asked him quietly. I'}, {'start': '1864.799', 'end': '1867.840', 'text': "believe they're waiting to die with"}, {'start': '1866.080', 'end': '1870.559', 'text': "pride because we haven't offered them"}, {'start': '1867.840', 'end': '1872.840', 'text': "another ending. Solless didn't answer"}, {'start': '1870.559', 'end': '1876.240', 'text': 'for a moment. Then she asked almost'}, {'start': '1872.840', 'end': '1878.240', 'text': "softly. What if we're wrong, Arlin? What"}, {'start': '1876.240', 'end': '1880.480', 'text': 'if mercy gives them the breath they need'}, {'start': '1878.240', 'end': '1882.919', 'text': 'to rebuild to come back twice as cruel'}, {'start': '1880.480', 'end': '1885.440', 'text': 'in a decade? Then we deal with them'}, {'start': '1882.919', 'end': '1888.720', 'text': "again. But we don't become monsters"}, {'start': '1885.440', 'end': '1890.880', 'text': 'today, he responded. Today we show the'}, {'start': '1888.720', 'end': '1892.960', 'text': 'galaxy that even after everything, we'}, {'start': '1890.880', 'end': '1895.159', 'text': 'still knew where the line was. Just'}, {'start': '1892.960', 'end': '1898.000', 'text': 'then, a sharp beep echoed in the'}, {'start': '1895.159', 'end': '1900.799', 'text': 'corridor. The comm unit flickered.'}, {'start': '1898.000', 'end': '1903.279', 'text': 'Admiral said, "A technician. We\'ve got'}, {'start': '1900.799', 'end': '1905.279', 'text': 'an incoming signal. Dominion channel'}, {'start': '1903.279', 'end': '1907.679', 'text': 'encrypted Soloulless whipped around'}, {'start': '1905.279', 'end': '1911.120', 'text': "source vexer prime, but it's not"}, {'start': '1907.679', 'end': '1914.399', 'text': 'military." The signal cracked open. A'}, {'start': '1911.120', 'end': '1916.880', 'text': 'blurred lowresolution feed came to life.'}, {'start': '1914.399', 'end': '1920.080', 'text': 'A driven female dressed in civilian garb'}, {'start': '1916.880', 'end': '1924.080', 'text': 'appeared on screen. Her eyes wide, her'}, {'start': '1920.080', 'end': '1927.039', 'text': 'voice shaky. to Earth Command. This is'}, {'start': '1924.080', 'end': '1929.760', 'text': 'Minister Leen. I was once part of the'}, {'start': '1927.039', 'end': '1933.440', 'text': 'civilian council. I beg you to listen.'}, {'start': '1929.760', 'end': '1936.640', 'text': "They're going to kill us. Not you. Us."}, {'start': '1933.440', 'end': '1940.080', 'text': "Solless tensed. Clarify. They've"}, {'start': '1936.640', 'end': '1942.640', 'text': 'activated a contingency. A fail safe.'}, {'start': '1940.080', 'end': '1944.960', 'text': "It's called the last whisper. A device"}, {'start': '1942.640', 'end': '1948.000', 'text': "that doesn't destroy buildings. It"}, {'start': '1944.960', 'end': '1950.399', 'text': 'erases consciousness. Mind waves every'}, {'start': '1948.000', 'end': '1952.200', 'text': "living thought. They'll unleash it on"}, {'start': '1950.399', 'end': '1954.240', 'text': 'your fleets or their own people before'}, {'start': '1952.200', 'end': '1958.039', 'text': "surrendering. They think it's better to"}, {'start': '1954.240', 'end': '1960.760', 'text': "vanish than bow. Solus' blood ran cold."}, {'start': '1958.039', 'end': '1962.960', 'text': 'Coordinates? She asked. Verala'}, {'start': '1960.760', 'end': '1965.760', 'text': 'hesitated. The southern pole of the'}, {'start': '1962.960', 'end': '1967.840', 'text': 'planet below their old prison complex.'}, {'start': '1965.760', 'end': '1969.480', 'text': "That's where it's housed. The"}, {'start': '1967.840', 'end': '1973.120', 'text': 'transmission cut out'}, {'start': '1969.480', 'end': '1976.080', 'text': 'suddenly. Signals severed. Drax stepped'}, {'start': '1973.120', 'end': '1978.399', 'text': "forward. She's telling the truth."}, {'start': '1976.080', 'end': '1980.799', 'text': 'Solless stared out at the stars. The'}, {'start': '1978.399', 'end': '1984.159', 'text': 'weight of it all crashed into her. A'}, {'start': '1980.799', 'end': '1986.320', 'text': 'suicide device. A full-scale mind kill.'}, {'start': '1984.159', 'end': '1989.480', 'text': "They wouldn't just die. They'd take"}, {'start': '1986.320', 'end': '1992.320', 'text': 'everyone with them. Solless turned'}, {'start': '1989.480', 'end': '1996.640', 'text': "sharply. Prep a ground team. I'm going"}, {'start': '1992.320', 'end': '1999.159', 'text': 'in. Drax blinked. You. This is bigger'}, {'start': '1996.640', 'end': '2001.440', 'text': 'than war. If this is real, we stop it'}, {'start': '1999.159', 'end': '2004.640', 'text': "ourselves. I need someone who's been"}, {'start': '2001.440', 'end': '2007.600', 'text': "inside their heads. That's you, Captain."}, {'start': '2004.640', 'end': '2010.279', 'text': "He didn't hesitate. Gear me up. As"}, {'start': '2007.600', 'end': '2014.399', 'text': 'preparations began, Solis gave the'}, {'start': '2010.279', 'end': '2017.360', 'text': 'order. Hold the strike. New objective.'}, {'start': '2014.399', 'end': '2020.159', 'text': 'Neutralize the whisper. And just like'}, {'start': '2017.360', 'end': '2023.159', 'text': "that, Earth's most destructive fleet"}, {'start': '2020.159', 'end': '2025.679', 'text': 'turned from annihilation to'}, {'start': '2023.159', 'end': '2028.080', 'text': 'infiltration. Hours later, a single'}, {'start': '2025.679', 'end': '2030.399', 'text': "black stealth pod breached Vexor Prime's"}, {'start': '2028.080', 'end': '2032.720', 'text': 'outer atmosphere, slipping beneath the'}, {'start': '2030.399', 'end': '2035.600', 'text': 'surface like a shadow.'}, {'start': '2032.720', 'end': '2037.760', 'text': 'Inside Solless Drax and a five-person'}, {'start': '2035.600', 'end': '2040.240', 'text': 'unit prepared to descend into the most'}, {'start': '2037.760', 'end': '2042.559', 'text': 'dangerous place in the galaxy. They'}, {'start': '2040.240', 'end': '2043.320', 'text': 'landed inside the ruins of what once was'}, {'start': '2042.559', 'end': '2045.840', 'text': 'a'}, {'start': '2043.320', 'end': '2049.040', 'text': 'prison. The kind used for political'}, {'start': '2045.840', 'end': '2051.800', 'text': 'enemies, war resistors, and dissident.'}, {'start': '2049.040', 'end': '2055.599', 'text': 'The air stank of old blood and something'}, {'start': '2051.800', 'end': '2058.599', 'text': 'worse. Fear soaked into the walls. Drax'}, {'start': '2055.599', 'end': '2062.159', 'text': 'took point rifle drawn, tracking heat'}, {'start': '2058.599', 'end': '2065.040', 'text': "signatures. Movement. We're not alone."}, {'start': '2062.159', 'end': '2067.440', 'text': 'They moved fast, silent through winding'}, {'start': '2065.040', 'end': '2069.440', 'text': 'tunnels until they reached it. A'}, {'start': '2067.440', 'end': '2072.720', 'text': 'circular chamber humming with violet'}, {'start': '2069.440', 'end': '2073.800', 'text': 'light. In its center sat the device, the'}, {'start': '2072.720', 'end': '2076.599', 'text': 'last'}, {'start': '2073.800', 'end': '2078.720', 'text': 'whisper. Standing before it was shade'}, {'start': '2076.599', 'end': '2081.560', 'text': "luric. I wondered if you'd come"}, {'start': '2078.720', 'end': '2083.480', 'text': 'yourselves, he said, smiling'}, {'start': '2081.560', 'end': '2086.560', 'text': 'coldly. How'}, {'start': '2083.480', 'end': '2090.159', 'text': "poetic. You're outnumbered, Solless"}, {'start': '2086.560', 'end': '2093.599', 'text': 'warned. No, he responded, finger'}, {'start': '2090.159', 'end': '2096.320', 'text': 'hovering over a biopad. I already won'}, {'start': '2093.599', 'end': '2100.640', 'text': 'the moment you chose to care. Drax'}, {'start': '2096.320', 'end': '2102.960', 'text': "raised his rifle. Don't. Why not shade?"}, {'start': '2100.640', 'end': '2106.240', 'text': 'Loric said, "You wipe us out. You\'re'}, {'start': '2102.960', 'end': '2109.040', 'text': "monsters. You spare us. You're fools. I"}, {'start': '2106.240', 'end': '2111.599', 'text': 'win either way." But then the unexpected'}, {'start': '2109.040', 'end': '2113.599', 'text': 'happened. A sharp crack echoed through'}, {'start': '2111.599', 'end': '2116.079', 'text': 'the chamber as a plasma bolt slammed'}, {'start': '2113.599', 'end': '2118.520', 'text': "into Shade Loric's shoulder from behind."}, {'start': '2116.079', 'end': '2121.640', 'text': 'The shooter, Minister'}, {'start': '2118.520', 'end': '2125.560', 'text': 'Lysen. No more monsters, she'}, {'start': '2121.640', 'end': '2128.079', 'text': 'stated. Shade. Loric collapsed,'}, {'start': '2125.560', 'end': '2130.920', 'text': 'twitching. His hand never reached the'}, {'start': '2128.079', 'end': '2135.760', 'text': 'pad. The whisper powered down. Quiet'}, {'start': '2130.920', 'end': '2139.440', 'text': 'fell. Soliss looked at her. Why? Because'}, {'start': '2135.760', 'end': '2141.920', 'text': 'we want to live, Verala said. Even if it'}, {'start': '2139.440', 'end': '2144.920', 'text': 'means surrender. And with that, the war'}, {'start': '2141.920', 'end': '2147.760', 'text': "truly changed. The war didn't end with"}, {'start': '2144.920', 'end': '2150.079', 'text': 'fireworks. There was no grand ceremony,'}, {'start': '2147.760', 'end': '2152.960', 'text': 'no triumphant anthem played across the'}, {'start': '2150.079', 'end': '2155.520', 'text': 'stars. It ended in a whisper. Not the'}, {'start': '2152.960', 'end': '2157.760', 'text': 'kind Shade Luric intended, but the kind'}, {'start': '2155.520', 'end': '2159.560', 'text': 'that follows a storm so loud it leaves'}, {'start': '2157.760', 'end': '2161.920', 'text': 'everyone stunned in the'}, {'start': '2159.560', 'end': '2163.920', 'text': 'silence. The whisper device was'}, {'start': '2161.920', 'end': '2166.000', 'text': 'dismantled, sealed in a containment'}, {'start': '2163.920', 'end': '2169.280', 'text': 'field, and shipped to Earth under full'}, {'start': '2166.000', 'end': '2172.400', 'text': 'security escort. Admiral Solless'}, {'start': '2169.280', 'end': '2175.599', 'text': 'personally escorted it back. She said'}, {'start': '2172.400', 'end': '2178.200', 'text': 'nothing the entire way. By the time they'}, {'start': '2175.599', 'end': '2181.839', 'text': 'reached Luna Prime, the news had already'}, {'start': '2178.200', 'end': '2184.680', 'text': 'spread. Vexer Prime had fallen. Not by'}, {'start': '2181.839', 'end': '2187.079', 'text': 'fire, not by orbital bombardment, but by'}, {'start': '2184.680', 'end': '2189.680', 'text': 'surrender. Earth had offered a second'}, {'start': '2187.079', 'end': '2192.240', 'text': "chance. The galaxy didn't know what to"}, {'start': '2189.680', 'end': '2194.160', 'text': 'do with that. For generations, Earth had'}, {'start': '2192.240', 'end': '2197.560', 'text': 'been seen as a former backwater smart'}, {'start': '2194.160', 'end': '2200.240', 'text': 'and dangerous, but always restrained. No'}, {'start': '2197.560', 'end': '2203.160', 'text': 'longer. Now, their name echoed in hush'}, {'start': '2200.240', 'end': '2206.640', 'text': 'tones. Not just as a warning, but as a'}, {'start': '2203.160', 'end': '2209.040', 'text': 'question. What is Earth becoming? Back'}, {'start': '2206.640', 'end': '2211.200', 'text': 'in New Geneva, the council chamber stood'}, {'start': '2209.040', 'end': '2213.400', 'text': 'in total silence as Admiral Solless'}, {'start': '2211.200', 'end': '2216.760', 'text': 'addressed them for the final time in her'}, {'start': '2213.400', 'end': '2219.880', 'text': 'uniform. They had a choice. Death or'}, {'start': '2216.760', 'end': '2223.760', 'text': 'humility. They chose to live. We let'}, {'start': '2219.880', 'end': '2225.160', 'text': 'them. Some senator Voss said slowly are'}, {'start': '2223.760', 'end': '2227.280', 'text': 'calling it'}, {'start': '2225.160', 'end': '2230.160', 'text': 'weakness. That we should have finished'}, {'start': '2227.280', 'end': '2232.960', 'text': "them. Solless didn't flinch. Let them"}, {'start': '2230.160', 'end': '2235.440', 'text': 'talk. The galaxy saw something no empire'}, {'start': '2232.960', 'end': '2238.880', 'text': 'has dared to show in centuries. Mercy'}, {'start': '2235.440', 'end': '2241.599', 'text': 'with power that terrifies them. And she'}, {'start': '2238.880', 'end': '2243.599', 'text': 'was right. In the weeks that followed,'}, {'start': '2241.599', 'end': '2245.920', 'text': 'smaller empires began reaching out to'}, {'start': '2243.599', 'end': '2247.760', 'text': 'Earth with guarded diplomacy. Not'}, {'start': '2245.920', 'end': '2249.280', 'text': 'because they wanted friendship, but'}, {'start': '2247.760', 'end': '2252.000', 'text': 'because they now knew Earth could'}, {'start': '2249.280', 'end': '2253.920', 'text': 'destroy them and chose not to. Power,'}, {'start': '2252.000', 'end': '2255.839', 'text': "they realized, wasn't just about pulling"}, {'start': '2253.920', 'end': '2257.680', 'text': 'the trigger.'}, {'start': '2255.839', 'end': '2259.760', 'text': 'It was about being the one holding the'}, {'start': '2257.680', 'end': '2262.160', 'text': 'gun steady and silent while everyone'}, {'start': '2259.760', 'end': '2264.240', 'text': 'else shook. The Trivon Dominion'}, {'start': '2262.160', 'end': '2266.200', 'text': 'officially signed the Treaty of Sarah,'}, {'start': '2264.240', 'end': '2268.560', 'text': 'named for the colony that had started'}, {'start': '2266.200', 'end': '2270.640', 'text': 'everything. It stripped them of half'}, {'start': '2268.560', 'end': '2272.560', 'text': 'their controlled systems, disbanded'}, {'start': '2270.640', 'end': '2275.680', 'text': 'their slave fleets, and put every'}, {'start': '2272.560', 'end': '2278.079', 'text': 'warlord under an intergalactic tribunal.'}, {'start': '2275.680', 'end': '2280.560', 'text': 'But they were alive. Their cities'}, {'start': '2278.079', 'end': '2282.240', 'text': 'remained standing. Their children still'}, {'start': '2280.560', 'end': '2284.160', 'text': 'played in the streets. and they would'}, {'start': '2282.240', 'end': '2286.560', 'text': 'remember that Earth, the species they'}, {'start': '2284.160', 'end': '2288.720', 'text': 'called lesser, had spared them when they'}, {'start': '2286.560', 'end': '2291.720', 'text': 'would never have done the same.'}, {'start': '2288.720', 'end': '2295.400', 'text': 'Arlandrax returned to Earth, a different'}, {'start': '2291.720', 'end': '2297.440', 'text': 'man. He visited Sariah 4, now under slow'}, {'start': '2295.400', 'end': '2300.240', 'text': 'reconstruction. The fields were green'}, {'start': '2297.440', 'end': '2303.280', 'text': 'again, new crops sprouting from soil,'}, {'start': '2300.240', 'end': '2305.839', 'text': 'soaked in tragedy. He found Elias born'}, {'start': '2303.280', 'end': '2308.640', 'text': 'there, older, tired, but with eyes that'}, {'start': '2305.839', 'end': '2311.119', 'text': 'had found some form of peace.'}, {'start': '2308.640', 'end': '2312.440', 'text': 'I heard what you did, Jules said,'}, {'start': '2311.119', 'end': '2316.240', 'text': 'handing him a'}, {'start': '2312.440', 'end': '2318.320', 'text': 'flask. Saving that girl standing down. I'}, {'start': '2316.240', 'end': '2322.160', 'text': "don't know if it was the right choice,"}, {'start': '2318.320', 'end': '2323.960', 'text': 'Arland admitted. Jules just smiled. It'}, {'start': '2322.160', 'end': '2325.560', 'text': "was human. That's"}, {'start': '2323.960', 'end': '2328.079', 'text': 'enough.'}, {'start': '2325.560', 'end': '2331.839', 'text': "Nearby, Jules's daughter played in the"}, {'start': '2328.079', 'end': '2334.560', 'text': 'dirt. A little older now. She looked up,'}, {'start': '2331.839', 'end': '2337.599', 'text': 'noticed Arland, and waved. For the first'}, {'start': '2334.560', 'end': '2340.160', 'text': 'time in years, he waved back. Admiral'}, {'start': '2337.599', 'end': '2343.160', 'text': 'Solace retired not long after. She'}, {'start': '2340.160', 'end': '2345.280', 'text': 'refused all awards, medals, or'}, {'start': '2343.160', 'end': '2348.160', 'text': 'monuments. The only thing we should'}, {'start': '2345.280', 'end': '2349.920', 'text': 'honor, she stated, is restraint. Her'}, {'start': '2348.160', 'end': '2351.839', 'text': 'final act was authorizing the'}, {'start': '2349.920', 'end': '2355.599', 'text': 'construction of a monument not to'}, {'start': '2351.839', 'end': '2357.839', 'text': "Earth's victory, but to Surya 4. It"}, {'start': '2355.599', 'end': '2360.079', 'text': 'stood tall in the capital square of Luna'}, {'start': '2357.839', 'end': '2362.560', 'text': 'Prime made from melted fragments of the'}, {'start': '2360.079', 'end': '2364.160', 'text': "destroyed colony and Vexer's scorched"}, {'start': '2362.560', 'end': '2366.480', 'text': 'weapons.'}, {'start': '2364.160', 'end': '2369.520', 'text': 'No names are engraved, just a single'}, {'start': '2366.480', 'end': '2372.560', 'text': 'sentence in every galactic language. We'}, {'start': '2369.520', 'end': '2375.440', 'text': 'were hurt. We struck back, but we'}, {'start': '2372.560', 'end': '2379.040', 'text': 'remembered who we were. The galaxy never'}, {'start': '2375.440', 'end': '2379.040', 'text': 'forgot what Earth did.'}]