[Eight hours after the Purge]
A massive transport ship *Hermes* dwarfed everything around it as it settled into position above Sirius Prime. Its hull stretched for nearly two kilometers, bristling with defensive armaments and equipped with medical facilities that could handle a small army. Today, it would need every bed.
Noah stood on the observation deck, watching the evacuation shuttles ferry survivors from the planet's surface. Six days in hell, and this was what they had to show for it—thousands of civilians freed from mind control, a captured telepath rescued, and one of the most dangerous Harbingers in human history now in the hands of the Purge.
Victory. But at what cost?
