A heavy, suffocating silence descended upon the command center. Humanity refused to fail this easily.
Simultaneously, the mainframes flagged another critical anomaly. The astrophysics team was frantically analyzing the curvature bubble surrounding the Viridian vessel, trying to map its localized spatial distortion.
Just as Professor Hao Yu had warned, humanity understood almost nothing about warp mechanics, where the very fabric of space is drastically manipulated.
When light passes from air into water, it refracts due to the change in density. The curvature bubble operated on a similar principle, but its medium was space itself. Whether light or solid matter, anything entering the bubble was violently warped, its trajectory completely altered.
