“If we pick up anything, we’ll see. Intel like that isn’t free to share and Nexus chatter’s a few parsecs short of ‘secure’.” The Fallen haven’t been seen outside their territory, but with their stealth tech that doesn’t mean much. “If there’s something you and the others need to know about, though, you’ll hear it. I won’t let them take people by surprise again.”

The Thing may not be exactly like the enemies she was resurrected to fight, but it has the shape of a threat she knows very well. “It’s a contagion. Means our first priority has to be containment. Makes it twice as important that we’re all working off the same playbook. Don’t want to spook your people and we don’t want to tip the creature off, either.”