Dawn on April 15th broke without alarms or sirens—just a single message packet sliding through secure channels with the weight of an era ending.
"Diana Ashford has signed," Viktor said from the intelligence dais, face lit by Umbrythm's cool lattice-blue. "Complete surrender. Assets, personnel, seed vaults, and distribution networks. Terranova is ours. The Alliance is dissolved."
A quiet went through Integration Command Alpha that no applause could touch. We didn't cheer. We watched dashboards normalize, supply corridors go green, and a dozen isolated workflows snap into a single spine. Six months of pressure had finally turned a continent.
"Status across former Alliance orgs?" I asked.
