Date: TC1853.09.28
Location: Imperial City — Arrival and Settlement
The teleportation array spat them out like a fist unclenching.
Twenty-six people materialized on the transit platform of the Guild Mission Hall in Ring Five, and for three full seconds, nobody moved. The formation energy dissipated in crackling arcs of residual light, leaving behind the smell of ozone and the particular disorientation that came from crossing half a continent in the space between heartbeats.
Coop recovered first. He always did — the Cognitect mind processed spatial displacement like a math problem rather than a physical shock.
"Everyone intact?" He was already counting heads, one hand on the crossbow slung across his back. "Sound off by group."
