The Edge of War

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Commander Selene Cross watches her security teams fall back through smoke-filled corridors. Energy weapons light the darkness. Explosions rock the deck plates. Black Sky Station has become a battlefield, and the enemy knows every secret passage. Crystalline devices appear throughout the station, each one channeling devastating power. Saboteurs in ancient robes cut through defenses with weapons that shouldn't exist. They override turrets, weaponize maintenance drones, turn the station's own systems against its defenders. Selene leads desperate counterattacks through failing gravity fields and invisible corridors. Her engineer races to defuse overloading crystals while plasma fire scorches the walls. Her alien warrior holds chokepoints against overwhelming odds. Every victory costs lives. Every defeat brings the station closer to its catastrophic purpose. The battle escalates toward the reactor core, where ancient machinery waits to transform Black Sky into something monstrous. Time bleeds away in muzzle flashes and screaming alarms. The station wants to be a weapon again. Will Selene's crew prevail? Or will the greatest doomsday device ever built claim its first victims in centuries?