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===Plot===
Just by rising, [[Rigour]] has destroyed the [[Bacchus Recreational District]] and [[Slate Mineral Cooperative]], and starts on the ships that have been sent from outsystem to attack it. It wants [[Voice]].

[[Cassander Timaeus Berenice|Cass]] pilots the [[Apokine (mech)|Apokine]] out of the warehouse. They open a channel to [[Sokrates Nikon Artemisios|Sokrates]] to warn them of Rigour, and Sokrates prepares to mobilize. [[AuDy]] reaches out to [[Detachment]] where it rests in the [[Kingdom Come (spaceship)|Kingdom Come]], and asks Cass to carry them north and into line with the ship. [[Aria Joie|Aria]] calls the [[Regent's Brilliance|Brilliance]] to her, and jumps in.

Rigour knocks [[Mako Trig|Mako]] off his hoverboard and he falls onto the [[Divine]], suffering just being near it. Cass attacks Rigour with Apokine’s beam spear, though using Apokine’s power in this way grants a psychic backlash from drawing on the same source as Voice. Mako keeps Rigour’s wound open, slowing it from healing using nanomachines. Aria draws [[Jace Rethal|Jace]]’s blade and strikes at Rigour, cutting off its arm, which slams into the Brilliance as it falls.

AuDy leaves the Apokine as they pass the ruins of the bunker. They run toward the ship while [[Liberty and Discovery]] search for data on Rigour. They recall there is a way to lock one Divine away, with the sacrifice being that two other Divines must lock themselves in with it.  

Rigour moves toward the [[September Institute]]. As [[Twelfth]] tries to control it, a dead-eyed [[Paisley Moon]] shoots him in the head. Mako crawls into Rigour’s body and finds [[Natalya Greaves]] inside it, but can think of no way to free her. AuDy gets the Kingdom Come into the air and enters [[Detachment]]. Voice has been freed by the death of Twelfth, and the people of [[September]] cry out for help. Mako asks the other [[Stratus|strati]] connected to Voice to help him, and they use their powers to pull him out of Rigour, badly hurt. 

Detachment and Voice begin to open the doors that will shut September away.  At the same time, the Chime manage to save Paisley, [[Maxine Ming|Maxine]], and [[Lazer Ted]]. Liberty and Discovery are desperately trying to get out of Detachment. AuDy pushes back on them, insisting they stay as the portals close.

[[Orth Godlove|Orth]], [[Jacqui Green|Jacqui]] and Mako are returned to the Kingdom Come. Below them, the planet is falling apart. Rigour tries to climb and escape, but it too is caught in the cut-off portion of September. The rest of the planet begins to slowly fall out of its orbit. 

The galaxy reacts to everything that’s happened. 

And 53 months after the [[September Incident]], in the blizzard-swept remains of [[Mode City]], AuDy and a dying [[Maryland September|Maryland]] talk about gardens and the nature of time.