# Act 1
< Morgana & Chase | Morgana lives and works for the ISPD at Precinct 21-A.
> Fillion & Galathea | Fillion is a security officer on Galathea after he deserted from the Navy.
< Morgana & Chase | On a case, Morgana and Chase discover a pirate ship, the Night's Envoy, full of dead augmented pirates.
> Fillion & Galathea | On an order from the director, Fillion is forced to work with journalist Bill Taswell, who is working on an op-ed about station life.
< Morgana & Chase | The case is turned over to the organised crime department by Captain Merri. Against this order, Morgana and Chase show their findings to the precinct's attending physician, Winthé Pentile.
> Fillion & Galathea | After a suicide Fillion is devastated he didn't prevent, he tells Bill off and yells at the director. He is then contacted by Dr. Claire: She has completed the autopsy of the suicide victim.
# Act 2
< Morgana & Chase | Winthé shows his findings to augmentation specialist and designer Charlie Augustine, whom he met at a trade show. Morgana and Chase then steal the Memphis, modify its beacon in a nearby nebula to the Juno, toss out scrap to make it look like they died in an asteroid shower and make their way to the Vi Station.
> Fillion & Galathea | Fillion gets transferred to Wela and earns a promotion. Being wrongly targeted by Ebony Rose, he uses this misunderstanding to forge an alliance between security and the street gang.
< Morgana & Chase | Morgana, Chase, Charlie and Lola witness the destruction of Nav IV. Charlie rushes to the observatory and scans the remains for ion trails - it transpires that the shot was fired in a straight line. The trajectory lines up with the ion cannon on Delecara and Sgt.A*. Charlie reveals the suicides were caused by unknown code injection and mentions the name Hephaestus.
> Fillion & Galathea | Tensions on Galathea rise. Suicide numbers rise exponentially and security has their hands full trying to prevent a mass panic. C-Null arrives at Galathea and pretends to help. C-Null and Fillion start a secret sexual relationship.
# Act 3
< Morgana & Chase | Charlie proposes a way to find out more: Chase will remote into one of the androids on Delecara and try to find some clues as to how the cannon was fired and who did it. Chase recovers a memory drive from the enslaved and subsequently killed perpetrators and transfers it to Charlie's computer. As he's leaving to solve a conflict with Vi Station authorities, Morgana uses ReMem to relive the thousands of lives' memories Chase recovered.
> Fillion & Galathea | C-Null begins construction on the outpost. More and more suicides begin to crop up in Wela. Fillion and Wela security have trouble housing all the refugees, and minor riots break out that C-Null helps calm down. Fillion and C-Null have sex.
< Morgana & Chase | Morgana almost dies in ReMem, but wakes up with the knowledge of the slaves. While they did configure and fire the cannon, they were forced to by a demonic voice. Charlie assumes this to be Hephaestus and begins rebuilding the code framework.
> Fillion & Galathea | The Empire gets uneasy and begins diplomatic talks with Galathea Station, to which C-Null joins. The ISPD is also invited to the summit. Fillion joins as C-Null's Plus One. As a backup plan because he had a bad feeling about C-Null, he gives Taswell his gun and a key to the sector elevator. Taswell takes them.
< Morgana & Chase | Charlie discovers that regulator drugs temporarily slow down the spread of the disease. Morgana and Chase decide to go to Galathea Station, Charlie and Lola join them since Charlie has a contact there.
> Fillion & Galathea | C-Null's outpost is completed and the Empire is voted out of the new Galathea Accords. Together with Sector C-Null, Galathea Holdings and Galathea Station will function as the new administrative centre of the Neutral Zone. As a representative of the ISPD, Captain Merri agrees. The Empire is appalled by this and leaves, and attempts to destroy C-Null's outpost. Her outpost parries the attack and the Navy ship is destroyed.
# Act 4
< Morgana & Chase | Morgana and Chase LD to Galathea, and Charlie is unaffected by the side effects of the drive. They arrive at an abandoned dock and make their way to the clinic, where Charlie meets Dr. Claire. They share their knowledge and Claire begins working to inhibit Hephaestus' influence.
> Fillion & Galathea | The director asks C-Null to integrate the technology that destroyed the Navy's flagship into the station. C-Null and Fillion get plasma from the outpost and they take Upravolene. Fillion trusts C-Null now, C-Null prepares to take control of Galathea Station.
< Morgana & Chase | They make their way to the Exec level, through the tunnels. Charlie discovers that the Hephaestus signals are relayed through radio transmitters, and Hephaestus temporarily takes over Lola, but they can reverse the effects before anything happens. Bill Taswell joins them, threatening them with Fillion's gun.
> Fillion & Galathea | Dale commits suicide and Fillion finds his body. Shaken and distraught by this, he returns his faith garments to the local church of the Sundom. He begins to suspect C-Null has ulterior motives. Fillion and C-Null move over to the new base at the top of Galathea, preparing for the fleet of Navy ships to arrive. The battle of Galathea Station takes place, and the Chukhung and Delaney appear just in time to help C-Null defend Galathea. Galathea wins the battle, but the Director is a casualty.
< Morgana & Chase | On the bridge, the four hide out in the corridor until Charlie and Lola discovered by Captain Merri. C-Null mind controls the captain into giving up his access code, and tries the same with Willow, but she's not augmented. She prepares to torture Willow for the code. C-Null recognises Charlie and begins to torture Lola. Fillion steps in, but she takes him over.
> Fillion & Galathea | C-Null prepares to infect every augmented person with Hephaestus, even Fillion. He flashes back to the battlefield and reconciles his past trauma. As he tries to leave however, he finds that he can't - C-Null has already taken control. C-Null lets Taswell leave, he runs and hides in one of the exec level lockers.
# Act 5
> Fillion & Galathea | Trapped in his own subconscious, Fillion is forced to reconcile his military trauma. He gets in a fight with Han, beating her on the floor until he breaks free of C-Null's control, seeing that he'd been fighting Lola. He leaves the bridge and looks for Taswell, taking the gun back.
< Morgana & Chase | Fillion returns and Morgana watches as he shoots C-Null in the head, she shrugs off the bullet and attacks him. The gun falls into the corridor, where Taswell picks it up.
> Fillion & Galathea | Taswell shoots and kills C-Null.
< Morgana & Chase | Chase and Morgana continue their search for the source of Hephaestus.
> Fillion & Galathea | Fillion becomes the new Director and begins rebuilding the neutral relationship between the neutral zone and the Empire.
# Epilogue - C-Null returns to Centauri in a new body and tells Hephaestus to leave her station, armed with the knowledge that it can fail.