Chapter 82

***This article contains spoilers.***

## Highlights

* Sakura learns cryokinetic barrier.
* Dana includes a failsafe in the power core schematics they're giving to Admiral Charles Harris. John tells him about the Progenitor threat.
* Edwin desperately wants Devereux to call off the award ceremony to contain John's influence, but Devereux is too excited about what John will do for her career to take Edwin seriously.

## Notes

### Miscellaneous

* Sakura had a dream of Shinatobe where she lured her target out with his family. "*They didn’t all necessarily have to be alive for that though...*"
* Edraele invades Lahlenor with 200,000 elite troops, two soldiers per citizen. She wants to make an example of it by incarcerating the entire population until she sorts the guilty from the innocent. She's looking for black-market cybernetics dealers who can provide information on Mikaboshi.
* Dana's going to design a modular starbase to use as a trading station.
* *John smiled at Dana and replied, “A rampaging Drakkar I can handle. You turning into a feminist is far more terrifying.”*
* Sakura wonders why her ice forms hexagons. Alyssa notes that their abilities come from John, whose species seem to be obsessed with that shape. It may have something to do with how their minds work.
* Ularean calls JohnBlake to thank Dana for her upgraded psi-shapers. Now even the weakest of their engineers is able to shape Etherium with more finesse than their strongest could with the old devices. John recommends allying with marooned Drakkar instead of executing them, because feeding them would keep them loyal. However, them being carnivores may pose an issue.
* Upon arrival at Olympus Shipyard, Charles has them park at Bay 13, the same spot they first picked up the Invictus. It's likely a reminder who sold them it in the first place. John's reception was starstruck.
* Dana includes a failsafe in the power core schematics they're giving to Charles. Transmitting a coded signal burst will result in a total power shutdown.
* John tells Charles about the Progenitors threat.
* Edraele advises John that Devereux is likely to stay an ally until she becomes Fleet Admiral, but to watch out for betrayal afterwards.
* Edraele bonds with the young matriarchs and Luna.
* The rest of the Fayes plan to take off in the Invictus after dropping the team at the award ceremony, stranding them on Terra in order to protect them. Faye Primary's vote didn’t count, since she wasn't objective after what had happened between her and John.

### Abilities

Sakura learns **cryokinetic barrier**:

* Sakura took a deep breath then held up her right hand. She tried to imagine a broad shield made of frosty hexagons in her mind, then pushed outwards with the cold aura orbiting her hand. There was a cracking sound and a white ice-rimed shape appeared before her, with more rapidly materialising in the air after the first. It took her thirty seconds to form the shield out of more than fifty fist-sized hexagons and she finally nodded in satisfaction, admiring her handiwork. Sakura could feel the strength in that shimmering barrier and despite its brittle appearance, she knew it was far sturdier than it looked.