Coalition's planetary defensive network went to maximum capacity across seventeen sectors simultaneously as the invasion force, over two hundred entities strong, poured through the corridors the Timeline Custodian's upgrade had opened, bypassing barriers that had held for three centuries. Rodriguez coordinated from Singapore command, deploying every Champion the Coalition had. Rama watched the holographic displays light up worldwide: Tokyo reporting forty-plus entities breaching the perimeter, Moscow facing thirty-five-plus, New York thirty-plus threatening its metropolitan core, Jakarta twenty-five-plus overwhelming local forces, Lagos defending against twenty-plus tearing at infrastructure directly.
This wasn't one battle. It was a coordinated planetary assault, and it was spreading Coalition resources thinner than they'd ever been.
