The Coalition facility's main briefing hall held 847 Champions stationed at Singapore, all of them packed into the mandatory assembly Rodriguez had called to address entity cooperation head-on. Rama stood beside the entity Lv428 on the stage, tension thick enough to touch. Half the room radiated hostility toward the entity's continued presence, despite forty-eight hours of cooperation passing without a single incident.
The paradigm shift had run straight into institutional resistance, exactly as Rodriguez predicted it would.
