SHATTERED SKY PROTOCOL TOUR LEG 1

Leg 1 — KPHX → KLAS

Phoenix, Arizona → Las Vegas, Nevada Departing Phoenix, you climb into controlled airspace as civilian traffic continues unaware below. Your route follows a northwesterly track across barren desert corridors, long used for military transit. Las Vegas lies ahead—bright, exposed, and dangerously public. The first extended debris trail was tracked along this vector, suggesting the object began breaking apart earlier than originally believed.

The Expanding Field

Markson studies the radar playback again.

“It didn’t just break up over Arizona… it started much earlier.”

You nod, eyes fixed ahead.

Vegas glows on the horizon—too visible, too crowded. If anything landed here, it was dangerously close to being seen.

Ground crews meet you immediately on landing. No delay. No briefing room.

“Fragment confirmed outside city limits,” an operative says. “Recovered before sunrise.”

Too close.

Far too close.

The containment zone just got bigger.