Inside Iron Vault Seven, a frozen zero-G cryogenic vault, Cryogenic Storage Unit Gamma-9 holds the Terran honeybee queens needed to restart a starving colony’s food chain. Gunnery Sergeant Valerii Petrov leads a mixed Eurasian Coalition and Federal Marine recovery team into Radial Arm Three, where the Threaded has turned the vault’s biofilm, doors, and dead recovery teams into a living trap.

They cut through sealed routes with thermal lances and move through vacuum gaps, failing comms, and container corridors where iridescent film signals their position. Then the previous recovery team begins broadcasting its own voices as a mayday lure, using memory and hesitation as part of the kill system.

This is "The Frozen Queens" by Sascha Schmidt