Twenty hostile entities hit the Singapore training facility first, the same building where Champions had spent weeks learning to trust entity instructors with their lives. The collective consciousness faction wasn't there to test the walls. It was there to prove the walls didn't work.
Rama deployed Timeline 48 with twelve cooperative entities to hold the perimeter, and for the first ninety seconds it looked like it might be enough. Then the two combat systems tried to work together, and the gap between them opened like a wound.
Coalition Champions fought from formation: cover, chokepoints, angles of approach, civilian evacuation corridors kept clear. Entities fought by displacing through the dimensional framework, appearing wherever the fight needed them without warning anyone first. On paper, the two styles should have complemented each other perfectly. In practice, nobody had built the shared vocabulary to make it work under fire.
