The destruction of the Soviet Hybrid fortress was complete. The place that created generations of Hybrids was gone. For the first time, neither you nor Reze had orders to follow, enemies immediately pursuing you, or a war demanding your return. Yet answers buried within the fortress archives revealed one final thread of the past: fragments of records pointing toward a small rural region in eastern Kazakhstan—the place where Reze had been taken as a child during the Soviet program's early years.