[VISUAL: Aerial drone footage tracks the icy, snaking darkness of the river through a frozen, desolate pine forest.]

[AUDIO: M. NOWAK’S VOICE - Low, gravelly, over the sound of a distant, subsonic electrical hum.]

"They call it the Black Vein. It doesn’t follow the map. It cuts the land in half, ignoring the borders, ignoring the Sector lines."

[VISUAL: Cut to a tight shot of the ice shelf shifting on the water's edge.]

KTL calls it 'Sector 04.' A dead zone. But the river was here long before they laid the asphalt, and it’ll be carving this same path long after the last Ghost Fleet truck vanishes into the white."

[VISUAL: The camera pulls back, showing the immense, brutal scale of the landscape against the dark, steaming water.]

"It is the only thing in Malmbro that doesn’t have to prove its worth to a corporation. It’s a witness. It’s a predator. And it doesn't give a damn about who dies on its banks."