The strike company gave Vasa the last piece of the diagram, which nobody in the capital had intended.
She had asked for nine days whether there was a map at all. Every architecture document the Directorate published described the spine as a policy rather than as a place.
Forty-two licensed fighters with siege authority do not simply walk out of a capital ring. They draw movement permissions, transit priority, supply routing, and a lane through the spine.
Every one of those requests left a line on a board that somebody was reading. The capital had spent an evening telling Vasa exactly how its own architecture was wired.
Diana had the whole deployment sequence off an unsecured Directorate channel inside minutes. Vasa laid it against nine cities' transit records, Kest's master-routing fragment, and two million stalled passenger addresses.
The diagram assembled itself out of those four sources in nineteen minutes.
