NightRaptors arrive under a jamField to the abandoned hangar as Lysander waits with Praetorians, stalling Atlas and Rhone while watching for Pytha’s signal. The Gorgons disembark battered; Atlas appears unarmored but wary. To hold him, Lysander reveals Fá’s death and that he met Diomedes and Darrow, who urged an alliance against Atalantia and wanted Atlas dead.

When suspicion crests, Cassius opens fire from concealment, smashing Atlas’s shield, while Lysander turns on Markus, Drusilla, and their Praetorians, cutting them down. Rhone maims Lysander’s legs and they duel savagely at close quarters. Despite grave wounds, Lysander cripples Rhone’s calves and finishes him with repeated strikes through the helmet.

Cassius and Atlas fight viciously, both bleeding and failing. Cassius snares Atlas’s neck with a razor whip. As Atlas tries to leverage the moment by invoking a weapon called Eidmi, Lysander shoots him in the head. With Atlas dead, Lysander advances on the pack Atlas carried.

Cassius confronts Lysander over Eidmi. Lysander declares his intent to be Sovereign and keep the bioweapon out of worse hands. Cassius refuses to leave without it; Lysander warns him off, then methodically guns down the charging Cassius. Cassius dies smiling in Lysander’s arms. Lysander opens the pack and disposes of it down a waste chute.

To consolidate power, Lysander staggers bleeding through the halls, plants Cassius’s razor in his own chest, and lets Reds carry him, blaming Rim assassins. He sets a fire to erase evidence and burn Atlas’s body, humiliates the guard, and sends Demetrius after the supposed killers. In secret, he tasks Kyber to eliminate Demetrius and his cohort, disappear hidden Gorgons, arrest Pytha unharmed, and retrieve the black bag for his quarters.