Dawn of Consequence Episode 12 -

With Earth suddenly exposed and the rescue operation collapsing inside the Korrith station, Daniel refuses the obvious defensive response. Instead, he asks everyone around him to trust preparations they never knew existed—and reveals just how long he has been thinking about the day the Korrith might come for Sol again. What follows is not a desperate improvisation, but the unveiling of layers of contingency built around one simple promise: his brother and those children are coming home.

But turning the battlefield does not make the rescue clean. As the operators push forward and the final survivors are brought out, the cost of what happened aboard the station becomes impossible to separate from the lives that were saved. By the end, Washington is left staring at a victory no one can celebrate—a moment  ...