FORTY-THREE TRUCKS. STILL MOVING.
The Ash Reavers have been running the Reach's supply corridors since the first winter. Tran doesn't hold territory — he moves through it before anyone else knows it's there.
FACTIONS
THE REACH IS DIVIDED. CHOOSE YOUR GROUND.
THE KNOWLEDGE EXISTS. IT ALWAYS DID.
Ridgeway predicted the collapse sequence, in writing, three years before it happened. The Ember Collective exists because the infrastructure that keeps people alive doesn't maintain itself — and she is still the most qualified person to rebuild it.
ELEVEN MONTHS. NOBODY DIED.
The Iron Wardens hold territory across the Reach's most contested corridors. Rask doesn't promise safety — he establishes conditions under which it becomes the rational outcome.
THE ZONE READS HOT. COME ANYWAY.
Wolfe has been mapping the Reach's irradiated zones since the first spring — the ones that read dangerous and aren't, and the ones that read clean and will kill you. The Verdant Dawn moves through territory every other faction avoids, because she taught them how.