The emergency session Rodriguez convened within hours of Sohrn's warning drew every senior figure the crisis had accumulated across four months of escalating development — Voss, freshly integrated onto the Ambassador support team, joined Dr. Chen's expanded analytical staff alongside entity civilization researchers and, through the stabilized junction, Sohrn's continued representation of Meridian's accumulated institutional wisdom.
"I want the full picture," Rodriguez said, his characteristic composure carrying visible strain beneath its careful surface. "Not fragmentary updates. Comprehensive analysis of what consolidation actually means, and what we should expect it to produce."
