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Antarctica Campaign

Massive Citadels military operation in Antarctica to neutralize an unprecedented chain of Nightmare Gates.

! This entry contains information revealed after arc: antarctica-campaign-prelude

The Antarctica Campaign (Vols 5-6) is one of the largest military operations of post-Cataclysm humanity. Triggered by a chain of hundreds of small Nightmare Gates — an unprecedented anomaly on the Obel Scale — it gathers Awakened from every Citadel.

Key Actors

  • Jet: recruits Sunny for the campaign
  • Sunny: agrees after the Valor Clan ball confrontation
  • Nephis: has already begun her personal arc by the same time
  • Great Clans: Valor and Song quietly compete for control of the campaign

Layout

  • East Antarctica: main front
  • Southern Quadrant: Sunny and Jet's approach corridor (Vol 6)
  • Winter Beast: massive creature whose influence forces explorers to retreat

Outcome

The campaign collapses when the Song vs Valor war erupts, trapping Sunny and his companions in the Nightmare Desert — a forced entry into the Third Nightmare (Vol 7).