History survives in pieces.

Lime begins recording the presence following him through the remains of the old world.

A portal reunites people who should have remained dead and leaves the survivors questioning what returned with them.

The group settles near the river while old relationships begin taking shape again.

An encounter with Brownie pulls Lime toward a conflict he is trying to avoid.

Knight agrees to train Lime as the dojo becomes the center of a growing threat.

Lime senses a dark presence and discovers a blade whose identity remains deliberately unnamed in the public record.

Lime turns against Knight. Their duel ends with the weapon reclaimed and a final confession between them.

Jose's attempt to reignite the portal ends in an explosion that kills almost everyone and throws Lime into the ruins of the old Yeezy base.

A private note from the researcher whose surviving trail connects the abandoned Cowdonia network.

Jeffery arrives at the Volcanic Research Facility and begins documenting the site.

The facility continues operating while questions grow around its missing director.

A restricted laboratory below the public research floors becomes central to Jeffery's investigation.

The facility records its work with Carbon Steel.

The facility records its work with Reinforced Diamond.

Researchers document gold's role in binding materials that resist ordinary forging.

A recovered log follows the study of corrupted shards.

A recovered log follows the study of dark shards.

Production demands increase while the facility's condition continues to decline.

A maintenance request records failures that Cowdonia command refuses to address.

Communication with the wider Cowdonia network begins to fail.

Jeffery seals the last surviving area as the Volcanic facility collapses around it.

A recovered executive communication preserved alongside the twelve numbered facility logs.

The last surviving transmission recovered from the Volcanic Research Facility collection.

A recovered research record concerning the weapon known publicly as the Worldsplitter.

A recovered research record concerning the Corrupted Pickaxe and the energy retained within it.

A material-research note documenting Cowdonia's developing study of Corruption.

A recovered record concerning the Diamond Alloy used in Cowdonia's advanced equipment research.

A prisoner remembers the apartments before Cowdonia moved everyone underground and turned a childhood sentence into a lifetime.

A loyalty exercise asks prisoners to record what Cowdonia gave them, then removes the page describing what it took.

Families remain inside failing apartments while their repair requests are denied.

Civilian researchers and prisoners work the same exhausting hours, separated by the doors that lock at night.

A guard discovers that the prisoners have no release dates and that many were children when they were taken.

The Data Division removes prisoner ages, disappearances, fatalities, labor disputes, and Cowdonia's role from the official record.

A prisoner remembers sunlight and hopes birds have reclaimed the apartments above the underground cells.

A replacement-energy test spreads through the mesa facility. Callan seals himself in the Data Room as Light Energy, food, and heat run out.

A recovery team is ordered to retrieve Dr. Jeffery Mu at any cost and follow his last usable lead toward the Ancient City facility.

Cowdonia designates the growth as Corruption and questions whether the Ancient City was abandoned because of it or constructed to contain it.

Corruption is proposed as a self-sustaining replacement for Light Energy despite its response to containment and living matter.

The Ancient City team prepares Mako for a facility-wide Corruption Energy trial and records the Frozen Ocean tower coordinates.

Corruption clogs Mako's energy lines, moves against the direction of flow, and reacts to nearby staff before the Development Facility signal vanishes.

Dr. Tali befriends a gentle great white shark named Gary, who waits by the dock for cod and strongly dislikes salmon.

Henry steals recovered explosives, kills twenty visiting executives, ruptures the reservoir, and releases Corruption through the unfinished facility.

An archived note identifies the Great Oak Forest site at 3300, 3500 as Cowdonia's first permanent research facility on Drakonus B.

The oldest dark oak turns pale while creatures move between hollow trunks whenever researchers look away.

A fungal network shares water and nutrients between every tree, making the forest floor unusually fertile and self-sustaining.

Jeffery finds Mr. BoVine's concealed records and a warm passage behind a false wall beneath the central forest tower.

Cowdonia's final Drakonus B facility is identified beneath the Swordsman's Tower, along with two occupied high-class cryogenic chambers.

Jeffery monitors Mr. BoVine and Knight in cryostasis eight days after The Frontier begins, uncertain whether either should be awakened.