Following the cataclysmic gravitational-energy strike from the Sovereign-Class Behemoth at 11:00 PT, the silent terror transitioned into orbital warfare. The initial strike had neutralized terrestrial resistance centers, but the sky remained saturated with the eyes and ears of humanity: the satellite constellations. For the Xylo-Sapiens from the super-Earth Aetheria, every single geostationary sentinel represented a lingering vulnerability. It was during this critical phase that the archived warning from Elon Musk, delivered years earlier and dismissed by many as mere hyperbole, echoed with chilling accuracy. A fragmented, final broadcast clip, pulled from a deep-web military server, showed Musk’s grim, determined face next to the stark headline: “ELON MUSK: THEY ARE ARMED.” His warning was specific: the interstellar objects were not just transportation; they were weapons platforms designed to ensure total system control before planetary harvesting.

Musk’s validation arrived brutally at 12:15 PT. From the shadows cast by the Behemoth, a second colossal ship emerged, smaller than the flagship but infinitely more menacing: the Warlord-Class Destroyer. This was the armored vessel of the Aetherian fleet—a jagged, kilometer-long monstrosity covered in reinforced plating and bristling with heavy energy turrets, clearly depicted in the horrifying live-feed imagery before it was cut. It plunged into low-Earth orbit, initiating a calculated, systematic program of orbital annihilation. The ship’s mᴀssive form was captured against a backdrop of continuous, blinding explosions as it tore through the orbital plane, vaporizing everything in its path. Thousands of satellites, from military reconnaissance to civilian GPS arrays, were instantly reduced to incandescent plasma and shrapnel. The entire orbital infrastructure of the planet, painstakingly built over decades, collapsed in less than an hour.

The Warlord-Class Destroyer was the technological manifestation of the Xylo-Sapiens’ ruthlessness. It utilized focused gravitational beams, not to strike the ground, but to destabilize the orbital velocities of remaining debris and hardware, causing them to collide and break apart in an accelerating chain reaction. This strategic orbital clearing served two horrifying purposes:

1. Isolation and Blinding: It completely isolated Trái Đất, cutting off any remaining human capacity for deep-space communication or coordination, and blinded any orbital monitoring the remaining human pockets might have attempted.

2. Defensive Shield: By 12:30 PT, the deliberate destruction had generated a mᴀssive, dense band of high-velocity debris—an impᴀssable, man-made (or rather, Aetherian-made) defensive shield surrounding the planet. No human vessel could leave, and the Xylo-Sapiens had secured their harvesting platform against any outside interference, transforming their initial logistical hub, the 3I ATLAS shipyard, into an untouchable fortress in the solar system.

The image of the Warlord-Class Destroyer tearing across the sky, leaving a trail of fire and debris, was the ultimate proof of the Aetherian species’ sophistication. The civilization from Aetheria, that distant, demanding super-Earth, had not only managed to traverse interstellar space but had also developed fully integrated military and logistical hardware to enforce their claim on Sol-3. They were here not just to exist, but to conquer and consume. The Behemoth had silenced the governments; the Warlord-Class had extinguished the skies. Humanity was now trapped, isolated, and utterly defenseless under the terrifying, silent supervision of the Zenith-Class Harbingers still floating above the ruins of their cities, awaiting the commencement of the final Harvest-Class Drones operation. The final act was set to begin.