“Analyze,” she says. “Consume. Purify. Repeat.”

The Trainer flickers. For the first time, it is silent.

“You’re not a weapon, Elias,” she tells you during a rare live transmission. “You’re a midwife. You’re helping the planet give birth to a New Dawn. Just… follow the Trainer.”

After 40 cycles of scavenging, consuming, and purifying, you find it: the . It pulses under the ice, a pearl of impossible potential. New Dawn’s fleet descends. Director Sorensen’s voice crackles over the open channel.

But their ships are armed. Their laboratories are full of failed Osiris subjects—twisted, silent things that still move. And their lead scientist, , watches your every vitals readout with the hunger of a collector eyeing a rare insect.

“Activate the Seed, Osiris. Become the dawn.”

This is where you learn that hope is a leash.