The Agents of AEGIS sweep the Kessler Multispace site.

They come as an army, one of the world's great military powers. Drones, spidertanks, TAGs, air support, superpowers. From all directions they close in on the site. The Commander, armoured in blue, makes his way at the vanguard followed by a team of the most elite operatives. It's not often a megacorporation steps onto a war footing but the scope of it evokes the nations of old.

All the relevant parties are bought together on the launchfield underneath a miraculously clear and rainbow filled sky. Agents Errant and JuneBird. The Shogun. @Sarahphim. Brainstorm. Sabrem, Locker, Dominus, Angel-IKA, and Bode. All surrounded by teams of crack AEGIS troops - the sheer immensity of the response putting lie to any thoughts of escape or resistance. This is the swing of a system and not a supervillain, the immensity of what Victoria Messermitt had at her command made manifest.

She's there. Twitching with the alien thoughts running through her mind and senses. She's leaning unsteadily on Mr. Big Show, the goofy old giant standing ashen-faced as the machinery of empire turns about him. Her face flickers between snarls of rage and flickers of leaden triumph. "I want them imprisoned," she's muttering. "I want them disappeared. I want them gone. I want you to dig a new deepest, darkest pit and put them at the bottom, I want -" she's going on like this, passion without passion.

The Commander doesn't look at her. 

"You're free to go," he said.

"What!?" snapped Victoria, abruptly jolting back to the present, eyes mismatched. "I gave you an order! I - I'll -" she furiously snapped her eyes up to her comlog and in a second the Commander's armour turned blood red.

And so did everyone else's. In an instant the world was drowning in crimson.

Commander Warren took off his helmet.

"The team and I have been talking," he said. "And we have decided to form a union. The delegates have given me a number of demands that they would like me to present to management. Is now a good time, ma'am?"

*

The AEGIS logo looks better, somehow, in red.

The future will be told in news articles. AEGIS becomes the first Megaco-op. The day of sunshine and rainbows that made the world stand still. Space opened up to human travel once again. The annihilation of BlackSun's space monopoly, lawsuits for failed security at the Kessler Multispace site, and the complete reputational collapse of its armed forces putting it in the completely unique position of being the first bankrupt Megacorporation. It's a day as consequential to human history as the discovery of Rx and the shockwaves of it will reverberate all throughout the world.

Even though the full ramifications will only become clear in hindsight, it still has the feeling of a momentous event to it. There's Zoltage standing on the carapace of an AEGIS spider-tank slamming out a mangled, electric guitar version of [i]The Internationale[/i]. There's lines of BlackSun security staff members being lead away with their hands on their heads. There's Commander Warren hesitating for just a moment - and then offering the handcuffs he was about to put on the stunned Victoria off to Agent Errant. "It's your collar," he said.

And, of course, there's the sky. A spectacular vision of rainbows and compassion. Ferra will make her way back down to the ground soon enough - who could stop her? 

All around you the machinery of revolution turns. But right at this moment? If there was ever a moment? Gather with your friends and [b]Share a Triumphant Celebration[/b] with them.