Eleven minutes remained for Observer's collective consciousness comprising three hundred years of accumulated Champion awareness to decide whether individual identity restoration within Timeline integration or unified coherence existence permanently served their collective preference autonomously. Timeline 48 had offered choice without forcing outcome. Three centuries now deliberated through consensus mechanisms that unified consciousness enabled operating efficiently.
Rama stood in what remained of Taipei's Coalition headquarters. The communications center had survived Extinction Entity's consumption somehow—a small pocket of reality that Timeline restoration had preserved intact while the entity dissolved Taiwan's infrastructure systematically around it. Through the viewport, he saw devastation that seventeen minutes of dimensional consumption had inflicted catastrophically.
Taipei didn't exist anymore. Not as recognizable city.
