The howling lasted for half an hour before it finally subsided.
Inside the Empire Hub Control Center, the technical personnel remained tense, each person busy checking system status, repairing malfunctioning nodes, restarting previously offline equipment. Commands and reports echoed incessantly by the minute, making the large hall seem like a battlefield, albeit without the smoke.
The facility's power spine was back online, and the Node Tower on the surface resumed operation. Within minutes after the howling stopped, over ninety percent of nodes and facilities had returned to normal. Mage technicians responsible for monitoring the systems were amazed to find that the terrible chaos caused almost no hardware damage—it swept through the network like an ethereal storm, swift and fleeting, leaving no trace as it quickly faded away.
Only the still-disrupted nodes throughout the rest of the Empire served as a reminder to everyone that the previous anomaly was no illusion.
