Darrow’s team bursts onto the Colossus bridge and finds it eerily calm under Roque’s control. A Pink valet, Amathea, quietly seals the door behind them, revealing her aid. Sefi and the Valkyrie cut down the nearby Obsidian and Gray squad, while Holiday’s commandos suppress distant Grays. Two Praetorians advance; Victra and Darrow kill Felicia and force the second to surrender as Blues freeze, awaiting orders that no longer come.

Darrow confronts Roque and demands a stand-down while Mustang’s Dejah Thoris is pounded by three destroyers. Roque refuses, so Darrow threatens the Pax’s overheated reactor and then triggers it. The Pax implodes, its shock wave crumpling the destroyers and jolting the Colossus, leaving Mustang’s ship drifting but no longer under fire.

Victra reveals Sevro’s trap at Thebe: helldiver-carved caverns disgorge troops as leechCraft swarm Roque’s pursuing fleet. Tens of thousands of Obsidians and Reds board enemy hulls, turning ships from within. Darrow also sabotaged Romulus’s prepared tunnels, preventing Rim boarders and ensuring his own numerical gains.

As the outer battle shifts, Darrow urges Roque to save lives. Victra condemns Roque’s betrayals; Roque counters with duty and honor, insisting cold service to the Society guided him. Darrow appeals to their shared past and warns that suicide is not absolution, but Roque cannot accept defeat or captivity.

Removing his badges, Roque rejects surrender and claims dignity in loss. He tightens his razor around his throat and ends his life on the Colossus bridge as his fleet falters, leaving Darrow with a strategic victory and the bitter death of a friend.