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EARLY APRIL. reconstruction efforts and aid grace the soot-singed towns of lavaridge and fallarbor. MATIAS SILPH recovers during his suspension, while Melody Miro has risen to a top champion's seat. kyle lopez has died.[break][break]

the council meets again beneath this somber fallout. however, fate allows little rest and the enemy does not sleep.[break][break]

although the aforementioned are available topics to commiserate, the commissioner opens with one ominous note:[break][break]

"intel from the hbic suggests that team rocket's next incursion is imminent. we expect it to be violent, the precursor to true war."[break][break]

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"project sapphire has also been able to detect kyogre's latest movements. when it resurges from the deep sea, it appears to swim toward sootopolis before diving back down again. as for the reason why, we do not know."

their worst fears have been realized and those consequences lay thick in the air like a heavy smog. the wrong person died in the fire and now all of hoenn's people are at risk because of it. it is the cruelest injustice in the world that the man who deserves least rests at home, visited by friends he's wronged dozens of times over. 

her jaw tightens. 

"all of Eva Morales's efforts to quell primordial kyogre have been in vain." she glances at penelope. "and we're bleeding. we try to take sootopolis now and we leave ourselves open to siege at other important cities."

port cities. trade routes and shipping waters. nautica, another asset gone.

"but if they're preparing to strike, we must do so as well. they'll expect us to be on the defense with kyle gone and groudon's avatar out of commission."

dahlia goode FERNANDO SILPH PENELOPE LIVY

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"the inland cities will be the most difficult to contest for rocket." [break][break]

the commissioner taps several keys on her open laptop. above, the holographic screen wakes up. after a flash of the league's symbol, a map of hoenn loads in.

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"i fear for pacifidlog town and its neighboring islands. we can not afford to lose mossdeep, should they attempt to pincer evergrande."[break][break]

on the screen, she zooms in on sootopolis.[break][break]

"sootopolis was once your home, councilwoman morningstar." the commissioner says. there is an idea she holds underwater and she wonders whether it is appropriate to draw. "will your heart be sound as we seek to take it back?"