Uncover Fracture - Fracture's Reveal Trailer

The **Uncover Fracture** Trailer released on September 1st, revealed the upcoming map Fracture and teased Chamber through a voiceover. The video's description reads 'Explore a world divided. Fracture arrives in Reflection, Act II.'

## Summary

The Uncover Fracture trailer is a showcase for Fracture, which was released one week after the trailer on September 8th. Chamber also narrates the cinematic, teasing his character which was to be released in Episode 3 Act 2.

The cinematic opens with the two bullets from Alpha and Omega Chambers' snipers destroying the Large Radian Collider and flying into each other, creating an explosion that destroys Fracture. It then shows the repercussions of the Chambers' actions, with electronic devices around Fracture failing and a massive crack forming down the middle of the map.

## Plot

   The video begins with a close-up shot of a golden bullet, fired by Chamber from his custom *Tour de Force* sniper rifle. As we watch, golden casing covering the bullet breaks apart and falls off, exposing the glowing pink body of Radianite hidden beneath. The shot widens and the screen splits, revealing that there are two duplicate bullets, both zooming in together to an unknown victim.

The scene changes, and their target is revealed: the Large Radian Collider being developed at the Everett-Linde facility, which has only just began operation after more than a year of development. The bullets penetrate the collider from opposite ends, shattering it's outer shell utterly.
As the bullets crash, Chamber monologues in the background, innocently musing how an object as small as his bullet could have such significant repercussions.

* The bullets destroying the machine
* The bullets colliding with each other
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Having torn through the outer layer of the collider, the video slows down and zooms in close to the bullets as they collide - both intercepting each-other's paths right at the center of the collider, and their resulting contact spurring a massive explosion at the heart of the facility.

The blast rocks the entirety of Everett-Linde, and not a single spot on the facility is spared from it's destruction. While the explosion itself may not have destroyed everything, the subsequent damage to vital facility equipment and the Radianite exposure would ensure that nothing was left unfazed. The trailer individually shows some of the areas that were destroyed: Attacker Bridge, the teleporters next to A Main, B Site, Defender Spawn, and A Dish. in that order.

The now stable Large Radian ColliderThe 'fracture' running through the middle of Fracture
Chamber continues his speech in the background, mentioning how the efforts of the scientists who worked at Fracture were noble; however, they are sacrifices that must be made to achieve his more significant goal.

The cinematic concludes with a shot of the now-stable LRC, cutting away to an overhead shot displaying the crack in the plateau that Fracture is built on, with one last line from Chamber: "Ah... such a pity."

## Transcript

Their efforts were noble but sacrifices must be made"

## Lore Breakdown

The mini-cinematic details the Everett-Linde Disaster from Chamber's point of view, showing how the proud facility was brought to destruction and ruin in almost a single instant. Chamber's narration also gives important insight into his own thoughts and reasoning around the terrible event - he did this, after all, knowing full well that it would involve the death all of the scientists working there.

When referring to 'their efforts', it can be read at face value to represent the work put into building the LRC and the facility housing it, but on a deeper level also the efforts put into forming a mutually-beneficial partnership between both the Kingdoms. With the destruction of Everett-Linde, Chamber was severing the hard-forged bond, one which likely will never be built up again - even Chamber acknowledges this, calling it a pity to bring this venture to an end.

Chamber's praise here is yet another example of the immense potential good that the facility and the work done there could have given rise to for both worlds... but evidently, it was not enough to deter the Chambers from destroying it, be that for their personal gain, or to benefit some other organization, or a genuine belief that they were in the right.

Of any possible organizations who would want to order such a hit, the VALORANT PROTOCOL could not be one of them as at the time α-Chamber had not been recruited. Beyond that, even to this day the PROTOCOL is still unaware of Chamber's involvement with the lab's destruction, even after they visited the ruins to gather data on the Alpha-Omega teleporters there.

The most likely option here is the last, given what we know from Fade's dossier on Chamber, in which she mentioned how the Frenchman has a personal, almost "sacred" goal that he has had for years.