Welcome Welcome Welcome everyone, it's my pleasure to present Astra Vanguard: Nepenthe Rocks!

The fallout from the Aphelion’s Heliogenesis disaster continues to shake Enterprise City to its core. Today, the Springfield District Court handed down a damning ruling—placing the full financial burden of the catastrophe on the project’s backers. Synthax Dynamics. CortexConnect Innovations. Abigail Hawthorne. Three names now tied to a disaster with a price tag in the tens of millions. But as the court demands answers, the companies remain silent. What aren’t they saying? And what don’t they know?

Meanwhile, Dr. Elara Nyx and Dr. Stephanie "Stevie" Adams remain suspended, their futures uncertain as investigators dissect the failure. But behind closed doors, the strain is already fracturing their bond. Nia Corvus’s sabotage, long buried beneath calculations and shattered trust, has been unearthed. Elara and Stevie know the experiment was tampered with. But does uncovering the truth bring them closer together… or drive them further apart?

And as the city looks to the wreckage of the Observatory, something far darker is happening beneath it.

In the depths of the ruined facility, Nia has made her lair. Twisted by the event, hungry in ways she barely understands, she has begun to take more, her latest captive, Sabrina West, a woman who got too close to the truth. Once an assistant to an investor, now a prisoner in the dark. What fate awaits her in the hands of something barely human?

Elsewhere, Elara receives an unexpected visitor. Nina Patel, CEO of GenetiCore Biotech. The offer? A new beginning. A second chance. But is this an opportunity for redemption… or another trap?

What does Nina really want? How much further will Nia descend into darkness? And with the missing persons cases rising, is Springfield on the verge of something far worse than a failed experiment?

The answers to these and many new questions will begin to unfold in this newest and most exciting adventure of Astra Vanguard: Nepenthe Rocks! Episode 04 is available for members NOW! Do not miss out!



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