The Ash Furnace is a burn chamber several sectors tall. Whatever the Rift no longer needs, it seems to send here.
# Environment
The air is thick with abrasive soot that scours the carrier’s plating and fouls its weapon housings. Heat mirages bend the guide channel’s light, so the walls appear to ripple and targets seem to sit a few metres from where they really are. Fragments of machines, rails and survey hardware lie fused into the ash along the walls, some of them human.
Among the debris, the C-9 has logged pieces of tether platforms lost in the 2190s, sectors deeper than any of them should have been able to fall.
# Machines
Mixed waves, opened by Crawlers and Tanks, with Runners in pairs behind.
# Guardian
Inferno is a furnace-control platform that turns its heat vents into weapons and fires in bursts, forcing the carrier to keep shields and repairs cycling.
# Pilot notes
Manual aim is unreliable through the mirages; automatic targeting compensates better. Budget for repairs.
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