He spent the first day after Stage 3's activation in the quarters, letting the pool recover.
The three-day repair had drawn more than the activation itself. Running Sovereign Dominion and Disruption Pulse simultaneously at substrate level for fifteen minutes, sustained rather than burst, had produced a pool deficit that Adaptive Recovery addressed steadily through the afternoon and evening. By the next morning he was at working capacity.
He went to zone 5.
Zone 5 was different.
