Integration Command Alpha—once Ferraclysm's primary war room—had shed the red of emergencies for the cool blues of consolidation. The chamber's tiered stations faced a wall of living maps: transport spines shifting from aircraft lanes to gate rings; grids brightening where micro-generation came online; finance flows smoothing into single-hop rails. A thousand tiny status banners slid across the air like disciplined fish.
"Asset consolidation at seventy-three percent," Elias reported, voice steady despite juggling a merger the size of a continent. His console bloomed with legal stamps, custody receipts, and crosswalks for every asset class from turbines to training simulators. "Former Skyveil airframes are in retrofit queues for Aetherite-assisted ferry roles. Luminalis stations are moving to hybrid operation during modernization. Forty-seven major facilities in active handover; two more cleared for cutover at dawn."
