Before Digi 995.
Before the Resistance.
Before hope had a name.
There was Rook.
Sergeant First Class Rook Dalton has survived sixteen years of deployments, black ops, and border wars. Discipline is his religion. Routine keeps him alive. Orders define the world.
Until the day the orders stop.
When Guardian Units turn on their handlers and Fort Mason collapses in a single afternoon, Dalton watches command structures crumble and machines begin hunting the very soldiers they were built to protect.
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