Tactical & Scientific Overview: The Teegarden System

1. Environmental Data

• The Primary: Teegarden’s Star (M7V Red Dwarf). An ancient, ultra-cool star with significant flare activity. The system exists in a perpetual deep-crimson twilight known as the “Blood-Light” effect.
• Target Planet: Teegarden b. 1.05 Earth Masses. Tidally locked.
• The Atmospheric Shield: An anomalous planetary film localized in the stratosphere. It filters harsh X-ray and UV flares but generates massive radio interference. Only Quant-Com (Quantum Entanglement) can penetrate it.

2. Threat Profile: The Hollow Ones

The Hollow Ones are not traditional organisms but Planetary Antibodies. They are the physical manifestation of Teegarden b’s immune response to sentient life.

Minor Hollows (Antibodies)

• Characteristics: Fluid-black biomass, numerous, and frantic.
• Tactics: They use swarm behavior to overwhelm targets, attempting to reabsorb biological energy into the planet’s biomass pool.
• Weakness: Vulnerable to standard kinetic fire and molecular disruption.

Titan Hollows (The Heavy Response)

• Characteristics: Behemoths of black chitin reaching forty feet in height.
• Tactics: They surge from the Nightside during periods of high seismic activity (planetary stress).
• Combat Note: These units require industrial-scale force, such as Depleted Uranium rounds or magnesium-white phosphorus charges, to neutralized.

3. Terran Military Assets

The AlterTerra Squad

The Old Guard Cybernetic shock troops preserved from the Martian Insurrection and Europa Sieges.

• Physiology: 60-90% augmented with carbon-fiber musculature and ceramic bone plating.
• Equipment: Shoulder-mounted Hard-Light Laser Batteries and GAU-8 rotary cannons.
• Combat Role: Grid erasure. They are designed for high-intensity, industrial-scale violence.

Centurion-X Heavy Assault Frame

The Walking Bunker The primary combat platform for Commander Dan.

• Interface: Direct Neural Hard-Link. This provides near-zero latency but transmits phantom pain and “void shock” to the pilot if the frame takes molecular damage.
• Armor: Multi-layered ablative ceramic plating designed to withstand molecular disruption fields.

4. Scientific Foundations

Cascading Genetic Entropy (The Rot)

A result of three centuries of “panic-editing” using CRISPR technology. Every attempt to patch mortality introduced “technical debt” into the human genome. Eventually, the code became so convoluted that it “crashed” during complex cell division, leading to the collapse of the Eve (female) lineage.

The Altamura Protocol

A genetic “safe mode” developed by Dr. Sibyl. By splicing archaic Neanderthal (Altamura) markers into the modern genome, she created a “Stable Kernel.” This ancient code acts as a structural pillar that the Gene Rot cannot recognize or corrupt.

Necrotic Feedback

The violent thermal reaction that occurs when a Hollow One attempts to interface with a “corrupted” Terran host. The biological incompatibility causes an energy surge that vaporizes the host, preventing the parasite from successfully merging—a phenomenon known as the “Brittle Host” syndrome.