Location:Multiple — Blackhawk Guild, Wu Estate, Imperial Palace, Long Compound, Seven Peaks
Date/Time:TC1855.05.05-07
Commander Arwen Drake read the briefing at her desk in the Blackhawk Guild's eastern field office, sixty kilometers north of Seven Peaks.
She read it once for content. Twice for implications. Three times for the thing that wasn't written — the gap between what the briefing said and what it meant for everyone who depended on the eastern trade routes, the garrison patrols, the intelligence infrastructure that kept half the Empire's commercial network functioning.
Then she stood, crossed to the communication array, and sent three messages in ninety seconds.
The first went to the Guild's central command in the Imperial City: full mobilization of eastern scout teams, verification protocol, all active contracts in the eastern districts suspended pending security assessment.
