On a storm-choked industrial moon, a battered infantry section drops from a damaged carrier toward a buried command stack to recover a data crucible.

But the enemy is already inside the ship, closing corridors around them while the carrier begins receiving accurate damage reports and death reports minutes before they happen.

Broken systems, chemical haze, narrow passageways, and pressure failures turn every movement into a gamble.

As the descent field bends telemetry into near-future loops, the retrieval mission stops being about securing the vault and becomes a fight to understand which warning is real.

This is "The Descent Loop" by Sascha Schmidt