Across the Milky Way, a massive vessel hung in Earth's orbit like a city carved from metal and purpose. The Ark was humanity's answer to extinction, a mobile command fortress that served as the beating heart of the Earth Defense Force's war against the Harbinger threat.
Its hull stretched for kilometers in every direction, studded with defensive batteries, hangar bays, and the administrative complexes that coordinated humanity's survival across dozens of star systems.
Deep within the Ark's command sector, beyond the military operations centers and strategic planning rooms, lay the halls where careers ended and legacies were destroyed. The tribunal chamber.
The tribunal chamber occupied a space designed specifically to remind everyone who entered that they stood before the weight of military law and human civilization's collective judgment.
