06:00 AM — Recon Flight Alpha, Southeast Asia Airspace.
The rising sun cast a weak orange hue across the devastated skyline of Jakarta. Ash still lingered in the upper atmosphere, painting the clouds in shades of rust and charcoal. Below, what used to be neighborhoods and roads had melted into blackened terrain—jagged and warped like cooled lava.
The drone footage streamed directly into Overwatch's command center. Flight Alpha, a modified MQ-25 drone nicknamed "Harpy One," skimmed 300 meters above the ruins, its cameras transmitting multispectral scans: no thermal signatures, no movement, no sound.
Rebecca stood beside Casimiro at the main screen in the MOA Complex. Behind them, intelligence officers monitored six other drones sweeping the former capitals of Southeast Asia.
"No airborne spores detected," Casimiro reported. "Residual radiation is stable—well within containment parameters. The detonation did its job."
Rebecca nodded. "And Bangkok?"
