Dark Matter - The Nova Incident, Part 6 (Finale): False Causes. Real Consequences.

Vector persuades. Alpha decides. Troy 39 pays the price.

Final chapter of the prequel arc. It begins with a choice. It ends with consequences.

📖 This story takes place shortly before the events of Dark Matter Book 1.
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⏳ Part 6 of 6 of the prequel arc.

Alpha detected the probe launched from Troy 39 as soon as it entered Nova’s outer sensing range.

He immediately recognised what it meant in the context of everything that had already unfolded. That was not an isolated object drifting through space. It was a deliberate extension of the approaching human vessel. A probe launched from a human warship. And it was introduced at almost the precise moment Nova’s internal systems had become critically unstable. Had the humans caused Vector? The timing certainly supported that conclusion. Otherwise, it was too much of a coincidence.

Destroying Troy 39 could neutralise both external and internal threats at once.