Two weeks after cooperation became official Coalition doctrine, the opposition stopped being scattered dissent and became something organized. Commander Helena Volkov, graduated 1985 out of the Moscow sector, Lv380, forty years of Coalition service behind her, transmitted a formal manifesto Coalition-wide, declaring the faction a real political force and not just a collection of unhappy veterans.
The faction drew over two hundred Champions, mostly veterans who'd spent decades fighting a war built on the premise that entity manifestations were existential threats requiring elimination. These were senior people, respected broadly, carrying institutional memory that went back generations of combat experience nobody could just wave away with a vote.
They represented the Coalition's old identity, the one the framework transformation had just overruled whether they liked it or not.
