Kassandra Station was supposed to be a warning.
On paper, Project Quarryfall is a clean operation: an IU destroyer, a Helios predictive engine and a Belt station marked for "demonstration effect". The models say Kassandra will break quickly and beautifully, a neat example to scare the rest of the system into line.
Then Gambit gets in the way.
Captain Rhea Makonnen commands a battered corvette with more stubbornness than armour. Her job is simple: stand between a destroyer and a rock full of civilians long enough for someone to call this massacre off. But as the first slugs hit and the station begins to come apart, Rhea discovers the real enemy isn't just the guns - it's the quiet Helios project that's turning people into metrics.
Amid shattered spines, burning radiators and a Free Belt task force desperate to make a stand, Gambit's crew pull something Helios didn't model: the station's own death warrant, signed in corporate code.
Project Quarryfall was designed to make an example.
Now the example is talking back.