Virginia coordinates Phobos’s defense through her war prism, triaging over a hundred simultaneous fights as clawDrills bypass Bastion killboxes and erupt deep inside Sector One. Red Legions intercept several drills, but Praetorian vanguards with berserkers and a Gold force brutal close-quarters engagements. Virginia masses reinforcements to contain breaches while Kavax’s Drachenjäger countercharge on the surface disrupts incoming waves.

The surface push stalls as Praetorians entrench and sensor jamming blinds both sides. Inside the sector, an elite enemy unit punches through toward the reactor, repeatedly outflanking Virginia’s Red and Gray units. Suspecting Lysander or Ajax at its head and identifying Flavinius among them, Virginia dispatches Lionguards under Centurion Virgilus after Nakamura refuses to leave her side.

Amid fractured fleet comms, Victra reports holding while Char warns Diomedes is moving toward Phobos. Virginia keeps the fleet together and commits more Lionguards to protect the shield generator. When Lightbringer pulls back, Votum and Rath warships rush in and wait at the shields; after the Praetorians break Virgilus’s line, the sector shield collapses and Votum and Rath launch their own landings.

Reinforcements from Apollonius and Cicero flood the surface, with Diomedes’s destroyers joining. Realizing Sector One cannot be held and that Kavax is being overwhelmed, Virginia orders a fighting withdrawal to Sectors Two and Eight and begins evacuating Bastion One. Despite Nakamura’s insistence on immediate escape, Virginia continues managing the retreat and prepares to drop the Nucleus to the Hollows.

As the drop window approaches, a call tagged as Kavax appears. The feed reveals Apollonius, who declares he has broken Virginia’s champion and is coming for her, underscoring the loss of the sector and the peril facing Phobos’s command.