04:12 GMT | Location: Sector 7, Sub-Surface Research Station "Boreas"
"We were wrong about the core," a voice whispers, distorted by the comms link. "It didn't go dormant. It went quiet ." ATD-FROST-01-Prologue.mp4
The video cuts to black. A single line of text scrolls across the bottom of the frame: 04:12 GMT | Location: Sector 7, Sub-Surface Research
The camera pans down to a console. A single light is blinking—a deep, unnatural amber. As the operator leans in, the frost on the glass begins to move. Not melting, but crawling, forming geometric patterns that mimic the structure of a neural network. 04:12 GMT | Location: Sector 7