Editing Paldiski Incident

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[[File:BG Polarized Light 7.png|thumb|{{enemy name|Elisa|boss}} with the activated [[Starfish]] at the end of the incident.]]
{{StoryQuote|I can't believe the flapping of a butterfly by the Black Sea led to such a huge storm. But everything must eventually come to an end, and it is time to wake from that nightmare.|[[Havier Witkin]]<ref name=PL11 />}}
The '''Paldiski Submarine Base Incident''' (帕尔迪斯基潜艇基地事件)<ref name=FP11>{{cite|gfl|fp|E1-1}}</ref> is a battle that occurred between [[Griffin & Kryuger]] (G&K), [[Statesec]], the [[KCCO]], [[Sangvis Ferri]] (SF) and [[Paradeus]] at the Paradeus-occupied submarine base of Paldiski, in Estonia, in 2064.<ref group=Note>In [[Fixed Point]] E1-1, the background showing Paradeus' file on the Paldiski Incident shows the date 5 June 2064. [[The Summer Garden of Forking Paths]] story primer on [https://m.weibo.cn/5611537367/5024223160700785 Weibo], as well as the same [https://weibo.com/5611537367/OiG7o0Axx primer post] for [[Cartesian Theater]], give a time of early September. This second date is more in line with the low amount of G&K T-Dolls back in the field by the time of the [[Fireworks Incident]].</ref> [[Havier Witkin]] called it the denouement of the [[Butterfly Incident]].<ref name=PL11/> The objective of the KCCO and SF was to reach and activate the [[Starfish]] installation at the bottom of the base, while G&K and Statesec's objectives were to prevent the activation. Paradeus nominally defended their base, but were in fact expecting a [[relics]] key candidate to reach maturity by coming in contact with the Starfish.

G&K and Statesec prevailed over Sangvis Ferri and the KCCO despite devastating losses (over 97.5% of [[#Belligerants|two to three hundred]] G&K [[Tactical Doll|T-Dolls]]), but the Starfish was activated long enough that Paradeus also achieved their objective when {{doll name|M4A1|AR|5|costume=costume1}} triggered a [[Collapse Technology|Reverse Collapse]]. The Paldiski Incident effectively marked the end of Sangvis Ferri as a faction with the disappearance of their leader {{enemy name|Elisa|boss}}, but the incident was ultimately a mere setback in the overall plans of the KCCO to destabilize the world and also advanced Paradeus' goals by accelerating the resurrection of [[Lunasia]].

The incident is told in [[Polarized Light]] and Chapter 13 of [[Girls' Frontline]]. The conclusion of this narrative arc marked a 4-years long shift away from the [[AR Team]] and [[Squad 404]] as protagonists and towards [[Angelia]] and [[Task Force DEFY]].

==Prelude: Chase for the Pike Node and Tallinn==
[[File:BG Shattered Connexion 8.png|thumb|{{doll name|M4A1|AR|5|costume=costume1}} confronts {{enemy name|Isomer Black|boss}} near Tallinn.]]
Following the [[Great Retreat]] in early 2064, [[Sangvis Ferri]]'s HQ was razed by the [[KCCO]] and their forces beat a planned retreat.<ref>{{cite|gfl|ct|Hornet's Nest}}</ref> During the battle, {{enemy name|Elisa|boss}} was stopped a fourth time in her efforts to absorb the Neural Cloud of {{doll name|M4A1|AR|5|costume=costume1}} and become a "complete" [[OGAS]] mind.<ref name=PL410A /> To reach the perfection her creator [[Lycoris]] hoped to attain, Elisa attempted to use M4's prototype, {{enemy name|M16A1 (Boss)|boss|alt=M16A1}}, as a substitute, and when this method failed she searched for the source of her OGAS: [[Pike]] Node A-51-241.<ref name=C133E>{{cite|gfl|13-3E}}</ref>

During the Great Retreat, [[the Commander]] was exposed to highly classified [[Soviet Union|Neo-Soviet]] intelligence by [[Angelia]]. As a result, they were forced to work for [[Statesec]] to demonstrate their good will and escape summary execution.<ref>{{cite|gfl|ct|Hurricane Rescue}}</ref> Their first assignment led them to assist [[Task Force DEFY]] in recovering Pike Node A-51-241 from [[Paradeus]] in Belgrade. Statesec deemed the mission a success, but the data in the core was in fact acquired by Sangvis Ferri.<ref>{{cite|gfl|iso|E4-6}}</ref> The data enabled Elisa to partially rebuild her missing code, making her next target the gateway to [[Xian]]: the [[Starfish]] installation in the Paldiski Submarine Base.<ref name=C131E>{{cite|gfl|13-1E}}</ref>

Already a Paradeus base following an arrangement with the Neo-Soviet government,<ref name=Conf2 /> Paldiski also became of interest to the KCCO as their backup plan after they failed to "awaken" Elisa and use her to violate the [[Relic Arms Reduction Treaty]] and restart [[World War Three]] during the Great Retreat. Having learned about the system during Operation Sparkplug, [[General Carter]] planned to use the still active Starfish servers of Paldiski and, in cooperation with his allies in the People's Committee with access to the Starfish mainframe in Moscow, reactivate the Pike control system. While they theoretically couldn't reactivate the Tabasar-B Relic connected to the same network due to missing the required authorization codes, they believed it could cause a sufficient scandal to ruin diplomatic relations with Western Europe and the formation of the [[URNC]].<ref name=PL11 /> The KCCO also made it a matter of honor to retake the base, formally their property, from Paradeus.<ref name=PL14B /> Carter put one of his most trusted men, Captain [[Yegor]], in charge of the operation, though it was a difficult decision for him due to the low chances of survival.<ref name=PL18 />

[[William]] guided the KCCO<ref name=Conf12>{{cite|gfl|sc|Confidential Information 12}}</ref> (who expected, with reason, that he would betray them)<ref name=PL18 /> but, playing both sides, also warned Statesec that the military would target the base.<ref name=Conf2 /><ref name=Conf11 /> However, direct intervention of Statesec's forces against the KCCO would likely cause a civil war due to the clique's high-ranking backers. Instead, they focused their efforts on catching the leaders of the clique in Moscow red-handed, while entrusting field operations to allies with plausibly deniable ties to Statesec:<ref name=PL11 /> Task Force DEFY and the Griffin Commander. Imprisoned after trying to steal the Pike Node in Belgrade, [[Angelia]] was deployed under [[K]]'s supervision.<ref>{{cite|gfl|sc|Confidential Information 3}}</ref><ref name=Conf11 /> K himself had a stake in the matter due to Paradeus' involvement.<ref>{{cite|gfl|sc|Confidential Information 6}}</ref> DEFY reached Paldiski before the Commander and the KCCO<ref name=Conf5 /> but lost connection with the rest of Statesec due to electromagnetic interference.<ref name=Conf14 /> The Commander and Persica hired [[Squad 404]] to monitor M4A1 during the operation, under the pretense of providing electronic warfare (EW) support for [[AR Team]], so {{doll name|UMP45|SMG|5|costume=costume3}} had {{doll name|HK416|AR|5}} and {{doll name|UMP9|SMG|4}} upgraded so they could more reliably take over her duties if she was attacked by the [[Parapluie]] virus again. 45 also had a personal interest in the operation, as it related to the [[Butterfly Incident]].<ref>{{cite|gfl|sc|Two Jobs}}</ref><ref name=C122E />

The Commander, tailed by the KCCO, traveled to Paldiski using the Intercontinental Railway passing through Tallinn.<ref name=SC13>{{cite|gfl|sc|E1-3}}</ref> William planned for the Griffin Dolls to become trapped in the interferences caused by the {{enemy name|Isomer}} network in the city, so he had the KCCO stop somewhat far from the city and send autonomous forces to wipe them out.<ref name=Conf12 /> However, the interferences ceased<ref name=SC51>{{cite|gfl|sc|E5-1}}</ref> after M4 rejected her role as savior of the Isomers, who coalesced into the body {{enemy name|Isomer Black|boss}} so M4 would kill them.<ref>{{cite|gfl|sc|E4-5}}</ref> M4 confronted Isomer Black to open the railway gates<ref>{{cite|gfl|sc|E5-4}}</ref> and M4's OGAS hijacked Isomer Black's body, becoming a physically separate entity from M4 for the first time.<ref>{{cite|gfl|sc|E5-5}}</ref> Moreover, the Commander's forces hijacked the first KCCO armored train transporting their autonomous forces to replace their own train provided by [[IOP]],<ref name=SC51 /> then destroyed the second KCCO train in line and the rest of their vanguard,<ref>{{cite|gfl|sc|E5-6}}</ref> reducing their forces to four trains and gaining a five-minutes headstart on the military forces.

The Tallinn battle weakened the Commander's forces, costing them half of their Dummies and some T-Dolls. Abandoning their original train also meant abandoning their command server, forcing them to rely on the exceptional computation power and storage space of M4 and her OGAS for [[Zener Protocol]] management and neural backups. At dawn, the train had to stop for repairs 15km away, but the KCCO's third company spent some time in Tallinn to destroy evidence, and they wouldn't use their mounted artillery because of the risk of destroying the tracks they would need to reach Paldiski. M4 introduced her OGAS to her allies and named her [[Dandelion]]. Dandelion compiled a detailed tactical report for the upcoming battle to prove her good faith.<ref name=C121>{{cite|gfl|12-1}}</ref>

Repairs on the train were performed by {{doll name|UMP9|SMG|5|costume=costume4}} and {{doll name|G11|AR|5}} with an estimated duration of 30mn. The KCCO deployed automated scouts to find why they had stopped, and the Commander deployed troops to prevent them from noticing they were actually stuck, losing some T-Dolls in the skirmish. The repair deadline had to be pushed back,<ref name=C126>{{cite|gfl|12-6}}</ref> but the train managed to restart before the KCCO left Tallinn.<ref>{{cite|gfl|12-1E}}</ref> A [[Vympel]] detachment observed the situation from afar, moving in to raze Tallinn after the Commander and the KCCO had left the city. One Vympel remarked that the Commander's only chance to open the gates of Paldiski would be to ram them with the armored train, and that they looked crazy enough to actually do it.<ref name=Conf14>{{cite|gfl|sc|Confidential Information 14}}</ref> Strategic bombers from the 22nd Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Division departed from Engels Air Force Base to destroy the base in case the Commander failed.<ref name=PL11/>

==The Paldiski Submarine Base==
===In the real world===
[[File:Real World Paldiski.jpg|thumb|One of the reactors of the Paldiski submarine training base.]]
Paldiski is a port town in northwestern Estonia, located roughly 40,000km West of Estonia's capital city, Tallinn. It is built on a peninsula about 10km long and 5km wide looking into the Gulf of Finland, the eastermost part of the Baltic Sea. The Pakri Islands are located to its West across the Bay of Paldiski, and the peninsula of Lohusalu is at its East across the Bay of Lahepere. Southeast of the Paldiski peninsula is Lake Klooga.

The town first became a military port in the 18th century, to meet the needs of Russian tsar Peter the Great in his war against Sweden, though it was eclipsed by the port of Kronstadt near Saint Petersburg, farther into the Gulf of Finland. The establishment of the first railway line to Tallinn and Saint Petersburg, eastbound between the Bay of Lahepere and Lake Klooga, helped the town grow in the 19th century. Paldiski saw little action during World War One, but the Soviet Union built a submarine base there in 1939, displacing its entire population and making it a military town. From 1941 to 1944, it was occupied by Nazi Germany, who also established a concentration camp nearby in Klooga.

In 1962, the Soviet Union transformed Paldiski into its largest nuclear submarine training facility. A motorized rifle division training camp was also established nearby in Klooga. Two nuclear reactors were built in Paldiski, but were shut down in 1989 after the Chernobyl disaster and growing concerns about the nearby air bombardment testing grounds. The Soviet Union crumbled and Estonia reclaimed its independence soon after. The base was closed in 1994, the reactors dismantled, and civilian life gradually restarted in the town. A nuclear waste repository was built on-site in 1997.

[[File:Satellite Paldiski.jpg|thumb|center|500px|21st-century satellite images of the Paldiski region. The colored regions are based on distances and locations mentioned in [[Polarized Light]]:<br>
<ul><li>Red: Paldiski Submarine Base.</li>
<li>Blue: Area of the initial engagement between Griffin & Kryuger and the KCCO.</li>
<li>Green: Shore guns.</li>
<li>Yellow: Location of the Griffin train during the initial engagement.</li></ul>]]

===In Girls' Frontline===
[[File:BG Polarized Light 5.png|thumb|{{doll name|M4A1|AR|5|costume=costume1}} in the main shaft of the submarine base.]]
{{StoryQuote|【No wonder why it had to be locked up. A base like that was a thorn in literally everybody's side.】|<ref name=Conf10 />}}
The Paldiski Submarine Base was officially designated “Paldiski Secret Administrative Center” (帕尔迪斯基保密行政区), or “Baltic Fleet Submarine Repair Bay 825” (潜艇维修泊位825), by the Soviet Navy. It was also designated OKb-167 by the 16th Directorate of the KGB and used as the main storage base for all the [[Pike]] Nodes of the Soviet Baltic Fleet submarines. A Starfish control node was built in its depths, with a direct connection to Moscow to receive the ternary signal from Tabasar-B necessary to activate and control the Pikes. The Pike apparatus was a deterrent for the Scandinavian region, and would also have served to secure the shores of Helsinki as landing ground for the Baltic Fleet and Soviet Naval Infantry in case of a war. The base also stockpiled weapons to be used by the Soviet Northern Forces against Germany and Finland.<ref name=Conf5>{{cite|gfl|sc|Confidential Information 5}}</ref><ref name=Conf10>{{cite|gfl|sc|Confidential Information 10}}</ref><ref name=PL11 />

Later, presumably because of the Northern Lights Incident of 2035, Estonia became a heavily contaminated Red Zone<ref name=SC13 /> and the base was sealed by the military.<ref name=Conf5 /> At some point, the abandoned base fell under the control of [[Paradeus]], seemingly with the approval of [[Statesec]] who planned to covertly extract assets from the base in violation of the [[Relic Arms Reduction Treaty]].<ref name=Conf2>{{cite|gfl|sc|Confidential Information 2}}</ref> Children bought from orphanages in Germany such as [[Anna]] were brought to the base for experiments on the development of [[OGAS]] consciousnesses, and those who did not bear any result were discarded to Tallinn as {{enemy name|Isomer|alt=Isomers}}.<ref name=C121 /><ref>{{cite|gfl|dr|Ghost Sisters VI}}</ref> The inside of the base apparently reeked from the many corpses involved in Paradeus' experiments.<ref>{{cite|gfl|ms|Hypnos’ Eyes I}}</ref> Some time in the 2050s, Pike node A-51-241<ref name=SC13 /> was taken from Paldiski on [[William]]'s orders and sent to [[Sangvis Ferri]]'s main labs to be used by AI scientist [[Lycoris]],<ref name=PL11 /><ref>{{cite|gfl|sc|Confidential Information 3}}</ref> who reverse-engineered it and used the result as the base for {{enemy name|Elisa|boss}}.<ref name=SC13 />

The base is protected by a “standard four-level protection system”<ref name=Conf14 /> made of two outer quarantine walls<ref name=C126 /> Being built on a peninsula, it can only by approached one way by land.<ref name=Conf11>{{cite|gfl|sc|Confidential Information 11}}</ref> Several artillery shore guns in the Bay of Lahepere, pre-[[World War Three]] models upgraded with a control network,<ref name=PL26B/> can attack any enemy trying to reach the base on land. The base is connected to the Intercontinental Railway through Tallinn, the rails passing through a gate in the quarantine walls and into the base itself. The base's structure reaches deep under the ground across three sublevels<ref name=C126 /> serviced by a large elevator in a central shaft. Sublevels B2 and B3 were converted into Paradeus research facilities, and the Starfish was stored in B3.<ref name=C122E>{{cite|gfl|12-2E}}</ref> Waterlocks enabled the base to be flooded with sea water in case it was breached by enemy forces.

==Battle==
===Sangvis Ferri assault===
[[Sangvis Ferri]] forces arrived at the base and began fighting [[Paradeus]] forces first, taking out the exterior defenses.<ref name=PL16A /><ref name=DR14A>{{cite|gfl|dr|Departure Time IV}}</ref> Around the same time, [[Angelia]], {{doll name|AK-12|AR|5}} and {{doll name|AN-94|AR|5}} entered the base from the sea<ref name=PL49B /><ref name=K group=Note>In [[Polarized Light]] - Sintering, Angelia says that [[K]] was with her when DEFY was locked down in the labs. This is difficult to reconcile with the fact that K also led RPK-16 and AK-15 to take the quarantine wall's control room. Also, according to {{doll name|AN-94|AR|6|costume=costume3}}'s Neural Upgrade story 4, AK-12 and AN-94 were not informed that RPK-16 and AK-15 were participating in the operation before preparing for the fight with Yegor.</ref> and reached the second sublevel,<ref name=PL32 /> where they found young pre-brainwash [[Nyto]]s led by subject EOT-1. EOT-1 lured DEFY to separate them before hacking and causing 12 and 94 to crash.<ref name=PL46A /> When Sangvis Ferri troops attacked the sublevels, the base entered lockdown, causing all the doors to close and all transmissions to be blocked. Angelia became trapped in a different room as 12 and 94. They remained trapped until [[Squad 404]] intervened<ref name=PL32 /><ref name=PL46A /> over an hour later.<ref name=PL29B /> EOT-1 reactivated 12 and 94 after Angelia talked with her, and the young Nyto decided to call herself [[Anna]] after Angelia. Since the Nytos could control the lab's security, 12 and 94 attempted to access their Virtual Consciousness and use them as proxies to lift the lockdown, but couldn't maintain a connection because they were not [[OGAS]]-compatible Dolls and couldn't cut through the OGAS-based attack sweeping the base.<ref name=PL46A />

Meanwhile, [[K]], {{doll name|AK-15|AR|5}} and {{doll name|RPK-16|MG|5}} battled separately against Sangvis Ferri to capture the control room of the base's gate.<ref name=K group=Note /> RPK was left in command after K was hit by a bullet and passed out.<ref name=PL24A>{{cite|gfl|pl|Diffraction Grating}}</ref> She sent a sitrep to [[the Commander]] but the file was intercepted by Sangvis Ferri and arrived encrypted. It was decrypted by {{doll name|UMP45|SMG|5|costume=costume3}} had {{doll name|HK416|AR|6|costume=costume3}},<ref name=C124E>{{cite|gfl|12-4E}}</ref> but the Commander suspected it was a fake. They also feared that William planned to lure {{doll name|M4A1|AR|5|costume=costume1}} and [[Dandelion]] into activating the [[Starfish]].<ref name=PL11 />

After reaching the Starfish at the bottom of the base, {{enemy name|Beluga|boss|alt=M16A1}} activated it, using the authorizations she had gained from the Pike Node.<ref name=PL51 /> However, {{enemy name|Elisa|boss}} couldn't immediately find a connection to [[Xian]], the Source of OGAS.<ref name=PL52A /> Elisa hoped that a sacrifice would make her more worthy of the Source, so she relinquished her role as Mastermind, breaking the Sangvis Ferri chain of command.<ref name=PL16A /><ref name=PL29B /> {{enemy name|Agent|boss}} and {{enemy name|Judge|boss}} remained loyal to her and defended the lowest level from attackers. While feigning to remain loyal to Elisa,<ref name=C133 /> M16 knew that she wouldn't be able to connect to the Source of OGAS due to her imperfection.<ref name=PL53A /><ref name=C134 /> In order to destroy any chance of M4 connecting to the Source, M16 actually rigged the lowest level of the base with explosives in order to destroy the Starfish and SF. She accounted for her [[OGAS]] consciousness trying to stop her, but wagered that all OGAS consciousnesses in range would be temporarily disabled when Elisa eventually suffered a neural meltdown.<ref name=C131E /> At the quarantine wall, {{enemy name|Dreamer|boss}} deserted and {{enemy name|Destroyer|boss}} fled to the shore guns after her troops were wiped out by Nytos. These first battles left the quarantine wall unmanned when the other factions arrived later.<ref name=PL16A /> Extraneous orders further sowed confusion in SF's ranks, such as an order to self-destruct that reached Dreamer. Dreamer found Destroyer's mangled body and contemplated finishing her off.<ref name=PL29B />

At some point in the initial battle, both Sangvis Ferri and Paradeus low-ranking troops ceased fighting, frozen in place while in battle, inside and outside the base.<ref name=PL32 /><ref name=PL312 /> It's suggested that the reason was the same OGAS core orders perceived by the young Nytos<ref name=PL46A /><ref name=PL47A>{{cite|gfl|Foaming}}</ref> and the Sangvis Ferri ringleaders,<ref name=PL29B /> which emanated from M16.<ref name=PL47A />

===Base approach===
[[File:BG Polarized Light 2.png|thumb|G&K's command train is hit by KCCO artillery.]]
Before arriving at the base, {{doll name|RO635|SMG|5}} compiled five operational plans (no retreat plan was considered).<ref name=C122E /> The [[Griffin & Kryuger]] forces would have to assume control of the coastal artillery and defeat the [[KCCO]] to secure the base exterior before moving inside to link up with [[Angelia]] and face the unknown threats inside.<ref name=C124E />

[[The Commander]]'s train advanced to the start of the Paldiski peninsula, 5km away from the base and its defenses, and established a defense line on the area between Lahepere Bay and Lake Klooga, 8km from the base.<ref name=PL11 /><ref name=PL110>{{cite|gfl|pl|E1-10}}</ref> While it reduced the frontline to 2.5km,<ref name=PL11>{{cite|gfl|pl|E1-1}}</ref> the coastal and lakeside region lacked any natural defenses against bombardments. Because they only had five minutes of advance on the KCCO, too short a time to secure the quarantine wall, the Commander elected to keep their distances from it in case it could be use to attack them from the rear. Using jeeps captured with the armored train, the Commander sent [[Squad 404]] to infiltrate the quarantine wall and link up with [[Task Force DEFY]]. [[AR Team]] was sent to capture or destroy the coastal artillery, so the train could safely reach the base. They were given 30 minutes to complete their missions, the estimated time the Commander's forces could resist an all-out KCCO assault.<ref name=PL12 />

Before the KCCO's arrival, the T-Dolls and [[Tactical Fairies]] deployed landmines, set up firing nests and listening posts, and rigged explosives on the railway.<ref name=PL12 /><ref name=PL14B /> Elite squads Team Negev and Team Palette were positioned as first line of defense.<ref name=PL14B /> Because there were not enough T-Dolls for a defense in depth, elite forces were placed on the flanks to prevent enemies from circling the main force to reach the Commander's train. Echelons with damaged Dolls or incomplete Dummy complements made up a reserve of about 100 Dolls. [[Dandelion]] remained with the train to support the Dolls' [[Zener Protocol]], wage EW against KCCO [[Automaton]]s,<ref name=PL12>{{cite|gfl|pl|E1-2}}</ref> act as a strategic computer and perform the last backup of the Dolls' [[Neural Cloud]]s.<ref name=PL14B /> Soon after, the KCCO deployed their 14th infantry reconnaissance company and 52nd and 54th armored companies, targeting the flanks of the Commander's defense line and causing the first G&K casualties among the scouting teams, while armored forces made way north to secure the shore guns.<ref name=PL14B /> Captain [[Yegor]] elected to keep bombardment of the defense line light<ref name=PL14B /><ref name=PL18 /> while it was still spread out, and didn't launch a full-on assault to preserve troops in preparation for a more dangerous enemy beyond G&K's defense line.<ref name=PL14B />
{{StoryQuote|Will we see that scene from back then in this place too? ... We can find closure here, and the storm stirred up by the butterfly's wings will come to an end. ... Surely Father's wish will be fulfilled now.|???<ref name=PL18 />}}
Reaching the quarantine wall unopposed, Squad 404 hacked a sewer access open and entered the installation, where they discovered the first signs of Sangvis Ferri's assault and suffered the first [[Parapluie]] intrusion attempts,<ref name=PL16A>{{cite|gfl|pl|Critical Angle III}}</ref> while AR Team bypassed the quarantine wall through a breach, passing through a wind generators area to reach the bunker complex hosting the servers of the shore guns.<ref>{{cite|gfl|pl|Refraction Point}}</ref> The first signs of the [[Starfish]] mainframe's activation, a blue aurora visible in the day sky, manifested at this time. Answering to his cue to reach and activate the Starfish servers in the base before [[Statesec]] could respond in Moscow, Yegor pressed the attack<ref name=PL18>{{cite|gfl|pl|Total Internal Reflection I}}</ref> as both sides scrambled the other's frequencies, cutting all transmissions on the battlefield.<ref name=PL110 /><ref name=PL111>{{cite|gfl|pl|E1-11}}</ref>

With Griffin's defense line shrinking, military bombardment intensified and their units pushed through the landmines<ref name=PL110 /> on the southern part of the defense line, the KCCO avoiding the northern side closer to the shore guns. The military's first wave was pushed back, but caused a 60% casualty rate in G&K forces, allowing KCCO armored units to push through the northern part of the defense line to take control of the shore guns.<ref name=PL111 /> Unit Quartz<ref name=PL23B>{{cite|gfl|pl|Beam Splitter}}</ref> breached the quarantine wall, enabling them to reach the shore guns before AR Team.<ref name=PL21B /> Only 10mn into the projected 30mn of defense, G&K casualties had reached 85% and the Commander ordered surviving echelons to retreat while sending reserve echelons to fight the second KCCO wave on the southern front. The KCCO troops quickly approached the Commander's train while tailing retreating echelons, and the train used its few artillery ammo to cover them.<ref name=PL113>{{cite|gfl|pl|E1-13}}</ref> Yegor offered the Commander to surrender and face trial as a traitor, and was rejected.<ref name=PL21B>{{cite|gfl|pl|Waveguide I}}</ref>

After linking up with {{doll name|RPK-16|MG|5}} and {{doll name|AK-15|AR|5}} in the quarantine wall control room, Squad 404 opened the gate and entered the base proper to search for [[Angelia]] while 15 and RPK defended the gate in preparation for the Commander's arrival.<ref name=PL24A /> Only 10% of the initial T-Doll deployment responded to the Commander's order to retreat and boarded the train to reach the base.<ref name=PL21B /> Using their last artillery shells and dumping any ammo that couldn't be carried, the Commander ordered to start the train at full speed, causing it to derail as it approached the base and to block the gate of the outer quarantine wall, trapping the KCCO outside at the mercy of the shore guns.<ref name=PL23B /><ref name=Calico />

{{StoryQuote|Come, I'll show you just how hard crushing an insect can be. As Sun Tzu once said, "On desperate ground, fight!"|[[The Commander]]<ref name=PL23B />}}

===At the quarantine wall===
The Commander ordered to plant explosives on the train to prevent the KCCO convoy from entering the quarantine zone. Unit Quartz reached the shore guns only shortly before [[AR Team]]. {{doll name|M4A1|AR|5|costume=costume1}} and {{doll name|ST AR-15|AR|5|costume=costume2}} entered the bunker, leaving {{doll name|RO635|SMG|5}} and {{doll name|M4 SOPMOD II|AR|5|costume=costume1}} to guard the entrance. Exploiting the tactical edge of T-Dolls in close quarters,<ref name=PL24B>{{cite|gfl|pl|Interferometer I}}</ref> AR-15 alone pinned the main KCCO force in the bunker, while M4 faced little resistance and was helped by [[Dandelion]] guiding her to the control room. She was however beaten to the gun controls by one of the soldiers, who used a smoke grenade to force her to use infrared vision, before combining an oil can and flash grenade to blind her and set her on fire, buying enough time to input artillery coordinates. M4 managed to take out the soldier's arm before he could use the firing lever, but he used his dying body to switch it instead. The strike hit the derailed train and Captain [[Yegor]] ordered an all-out assault.<ref name=PL26B>{{cite|gfl|pl|Aperture}}</ref> While [[Kalina]] escaped the artillery shot, several T-Dolls had to enter the crumbling and burning wreck of the train to rescue [[the Commander]], causing more casualties and bringing the Commander's troops down to 5% of their original force.<ref name=PL35>{{cite|gfl|pl|Shattered Plane of Polarization I}}</ref>

After RO awakened M4 who had crashed from overheating because of the incendiary attack, AR Team found that the shore guns couldn't fire due to the KCCO locking up the magazine room. As the Dolls moved to take back control of the magazines, Dandelion noticed that she could now control [[Sangvis Ferri]] units, who were no longer under {{enemy name|Elisa|boss}}'s command. Shortly after, the KCCO troops near the shore guns came under attack by {{enemy name|Executioner|boss}},<ref name=PL27B>{{cite|gfl|pl|Spectrometer I}}</ref> who was searching for {{enemy name|Destroyer|boss}}. {{enemy name|Hunter|boss}} arrived to reinforce Executioner against the KCCO's autonomous troops and IFVs, arguing with Executioner that because they no longer had a chain of command, they could disregard any order and simply enjoy killing humans. The battle had lasted over an hour by this point.<ref name=PL29B>{{cite|gfl|pl|Analyzer}}</ref>

When the Commander regained consciousness, AR Team had taken back control of the shore guns. {{doll name|AK-15|AR|5}} and {{doll name|RPK-16|AR|5}} were sent out as scouts to obtain the coordinates of the KCCO command train, in order to destroy it with the shore guns, while the Commander's troops retreated inside the base and prepared to destroy the main entrance to hold off the incoming military assault. Dandelion, trapped outside of the quarantine wall, performed a final backup of all surviving T-Dolls before making her way toward AR Team.<ref name=PL35 /> AR Team's artillery fire managed to strike the tail-end of the KCCO command train, prompting Captain Yegor to send the exploding train at full speed against the wreck of Griffin train, forcing a way in for their assault. KCCO troops also launched an assault on AR Team,<ref>{{cite|gfl|pl|Recrystallization Resolution II}}</ref> who managed to land a few more artillery shots on the military's vanguard before starting their retreat to the base.<ref name=PL38 /> KCCO's unit Quartz had suffered considerable casualties during the battle for the shore guns, but Captain Yegor denied them the time to evacuate their wounded in order to press the assault on the base's southern entrance.<ref name=PL310 /> AK-15 and RPK-16 also successfully retreated to the base, where the still unconscious [[K]] had also been transported.

Despite AR Team's efforts, KCCO troops would reach the base before explosives could be planted to destroy the entrance. Dandelion selected four volunteer T-Dolls to act as a rear guard: {{doll name|M82|AR|4}}, {{doll name|CF05|SMG|4}}, {{doll name|INSAS|AR|3}} and {{doll name|Webley|HG|5}}, and the Commander reluctantly agreed to her plan.<ref name=PL38>{{cite|gfl|pl|Shattered Plane of Polarization II}}</ref> INSAS was destroyed in the defense while the other three T-Dolls used up all of their ammo before running suicide bombings. AR Team and Dandelion approached the base at the same time as the KCCO's main force, and Dandelion offered M4 a way to further slow down the military's approach:<ref name=PL310>{{cite|gfl|pl|Asymmetric Induction I}}</ref> meeting in a building with many frozen [[Paradeus]] and Sangvis troops and closely synchronizing with M4, Dandelion took control of the enemy troops and sent them to attack the KCCO.<ref name=PL312>{{cite|gfl|pl|Optical Isomer}}</ref>

Coordinated by {{enemy name|Agent|boss}}, {{enemy name|Executioner|boss}}, along with {{enemy name|Hunter|boss}}, {{enemy name|Scarecrow|boss}} and {{enemy name|Alchemist|boss}}, joined the assault against the military. While their advance was stopped, units Quartz and Hematite eliminated the defending Nytos and took down Scarecrow, who was evacuated by Executioner. Captain Yegor sent unit Zircon for the final push past the quarantine wall, but Executioner and Scarecrow returned against Agent's orders to make a final stand. Agent allowed the last contingent of SF troops led by {{enemy name|Destroyer|boss}} and {{enemy name|Dreamer|boss}} to flank the KCCO and let the other ringleaders escape. Boarding an {{enemy name|Ares|boss}} mech, designation Amber 4, Captain Yegor led the three other mechs of Amber Flight through the weakened SF defenses and broke through the quarantine wall. The defense had bought enough time for the Commander's T-Doll to half-rig the entrance with explosives and for AR Team and Dandelion to join them, but Amber Flight rushed into the base without attacking. The Commander ordered to detonate the explosives and partially seal the entrance, and sent AR Team, [[Task Force DEFY]], Dandelion and a [[HOC]] team after the mechs while the rest of the T-Dolls defended the base.<ref name=PL42B>{{cite|gfl|pl|Annealing II}}</ref>

===Squad 404's investigations===
When the [[KCCO]] artillery struck [[the Commander]]'s train, the main power in the base was cut and [[Squad 404]] faced locked doors and was forced to locate the local power room to progress. Simultaneously attacked by [[Sangvis Ferri]] forces and an electronic attack from {{enemy name|Beluga|boss|alt=M16A1}}, {{doll name|UMP45|SMG|5|costume=costume3}} became locked at Consciousness Level II.<ref name=PL25A>{{cite|gfl|pl|Vacuum Tube I}}</ref> She relived memories of the [[Butterfly Incident]] before 404 eliminated the direct SF threat and {{doll name|UMP9|SMG|5|costume=costume4}} managed to pull 45 back.<ref name=PL31 /> M16's objective was in fact not to take over 45's Neural Cloud, but to forcibly access her memories of the Butterfly Incident in order to recover her own lost memories of this time.<ref name=PL41A>{{cite|gfl|pl|Milling I}}</ref><ref name=PL48A>{{cite|gfl|pl|Foam Stabilization I}}</ref>

404 inferred that the presence of {{enemy name|Intruder|boss}} nearby meant that she served as a proxy for M16's hacking, so 404 chased after the ringleader.<ref name=PL31>{{cite|gfl|pl|Enantiomer Overload I}}</ref> When the chase led them to a local power room, 404 suspected Intruder was deliberately guiding them there to cycle the base's power and lift the lockdown. In the room, SF troops and two [[Nyto]]s had crashed at the same time during combat. Using the sublevel's closed-loop systems, 404 managed to establish contact with {{doll name|AK-12|AR|5}} and {{doll name|AN-94|AR|5}}, and 404 activated the backup power supply, partially lifting the lockdown and restarting the battle inside the room.<ref name=PL32>{{cite|gfl|pl|Enantiomer Overload II}}</ref> 45 continued to withstand M16's hacking. She was also attempting to backtrace the attacking signal to steal information about the Butterfly Incident as 404 progressed, until she could no longer walk. At that point, {{doll name|HK416|AR|6|costume=costume3}} convinced 45 to let 9 help her cut the enemy signal.<ref name=PL41A />
{{StoryQuote|Shut up! What the hell do you know? [[HK416|You]] never took part in [[Butterfly Incident|that operation]], you'll never know how it feels! [[UMP40|My teammate, my friend]], everyone who used to be by my side is dead! You're right, I'm not an elite Doll, I was nothing more than an expendable item with shitty performance! Back then, she told me that even a Doll had a reason to live on! So YOU listen up! Reason? I don't give a damn about why it happened. There was no reason for them to have died there to begin with! What I'm doing is to make [[William|the one responsible for all of this]] pay! From the moment I escaped alive, to recruiting all of you for [[Squad 404|this team]] and helping [[Angelia|Ange]] and [[Griffin & Kryuger|Griffin]], my objective has never changed, not in the slightest!|{{doll name|UMP45|SMG|5|costume=costume3}}<ref name=PL43A />}}
While approaching [[Task Force DEFY]]'s location, 404 briefly detected a high concentration of Nytos nearby before entering a jamming area and being faced with a locked door.<ref name=PL43A /> Possibly hearing 404 on the other side of the door, [[Angelia]] and the young Nytos sent [[Anna]] through the ceiling vents to make contact.<ref name=PL46A>{{cite|gfl|pl|Sintering}}</ref> 45 ordered 416 and {{doll name|G11|AR|5}} to find a take down the jammer while herself and 9 explored the area to find another way in. 416 refused to comply, claiming that splitting the team in the face of a powerful enemy was too dangerous and that 45 wasn't thinking clearly because of her obsession with finding information about the Butterfly Incident. For the first time, 45 and 416 openly talked about their long-term objectives and the impact of the Butterfly Incident on their lives. 416 accepted 45's resolve to take revenge on the incident's perpetrator, but insisted to go with 45 to defend her in case she ran into the Nytos. Just as 45 accepted, Anna abducted G11 through the ceiling. As the only one who could fit into the ceiling ducts, 45 went after G11 while 416 and 9 searched for the jammer.<ref name=PL43A>{{cite|gfl|pl|Mixing}}</ref> When 45 found Anna and G11, Anna hacked 45 and sent her [[Neural Cloud]] in Consciousness Level II in self-defense.<ref>{{cite|gfl|pl|Pre-Heating I}}</ref>

After Angelia reactivated her, 45 used her [[OGAS]]-compatible Neural Cloud to help the Nytos open the lab's doors. She connected to the Virtual Consciousness of the young Nytos<ref name=PL46A /> and ran a counter-hack against M16's OGAS signal.<ref name=PL47A /> 45 was overwhelmed and pushed into Consciousness Level III, but this allowed her to receive the help of her own OGAS consciousness, who appeared as {{doll name|UMP40|SMG|4}}. With Anna and "40"'s help, 45 performed a counter-hack into M16's Neural Cloud, exploiting a vulnerability caused by the overlapping data of [[Lunasia]]'s memories in their OGASes. {{enemy name|Elisa|boss}} intervened, taking over 40's avatar and forcing access to 45's memories of the Butterfly Incident. Elisa revealed her role in the incident and her ultimate goal for coming to Paldiski. She warned 45 not to interfere in her coalescence with the Source and stopped M16's OGAS attack. The local signal jamming also stopped at this time,<ref name=PL410A>{{cite|gfl|pl|Molding}}</ref> enabling Angelia to report their situation to [[the Commander]] and [[K]]. The Commander granted Angelia command of [[AR Team]] to deal with Amber Flight.<ref name=PL42B /> Ange gathered all the data she had found in the lab and stored copies in 45 and 12's Neural Clouds to analyze it later. Ange entrusted to 404 the evacuation of the young Nytos, and left 45 with the location and code of a money stash they could take as payment if she died fighting Captain [[Yegor]].<ref name=C131>{{cite|gfl|13-1}}</ref>

===Battle inside the base===
====Air bombardment====
{{StoryQuote|I have to hand it to those Dolls for sticking it out for so long. I don't know if I should praise their resilience or roast [[KCCO|our troops]] for degenerating into such an unsightly state. They want to take on the West when they can't even beat a bunch of toys. No wonder the brass wants to be rid of them.|[[Vympel]] Commander<ref name=PL48B />}}
Certain that the brass would want to secure the materials obtained by [[Angelia]] (especially clues to [[William]]'s location)<ref name=PL42B /> and unsure of the [[Griffin & Kryuger|Griffin]] Dolls' chances against the military attackers, [[K]] decided to play his trump card and made a call to the [[Vympel]] units observing the battle. The Vympels refused to provide fire support, and K escalated by making it a formal request from the [[Stasi]] to the Neo-Soviet command.<ref name=PL44B /> The [[KCCO]] attempted to secure the railways to advance their trains close to the base's entrance, but couldn't secure any ground against the defending T-Dolls due to the complete absence of covers and their waning forces. Any attempt to clear the defenders' position with artillery would have blocked the entrance further with debris. Moreover, the morale of human KCCO troops was plummeting due to the frustration of being held back by what they thought were worthless Dolls. The T-Dolls defended the position for 15 minutes despite some of them running out of ammo and resorting to improvised explosives made from [[HOC]] ammunition or bayonet combat.

During the fourth KCCO offensive on the gate, Neo-Soviet command authorized an air bombing, and [[the Commander]] ordered a danger close strike, hoping all T-Dolls would be able to get back inside the base in time. Two minutes later, a 1500kg sub-munitions cruise missile, originally intended to destroy the base if the Commander failed, destroyed the KCCO's armored train and all of their troops in a 200-meters radius between Highway 183 and the railway station at the base's entrance.<ref name=PL48B>{{cite|gfl|pl|Polishing}}</ref> Only half of the defending Dolls had cleared the bombing area, meaning that less than 2.5% of Griffin's initial forces remained. The Commander dispatched the surviving Dolls to take down soldiers who had managed to enter the base, and Ange reported the existence of four sea valves that could be used to flood the base. She asked the Commander to have the valves rigged with explosives to kill everyone in the sublevels.<ref name=PL49B /> Her goal was also to ensure the technology developed by [[Paradeus]] in the base wouldn't be recovered and used by any other party.<ref name=C131 />

K and the Commander, armed only with the pistol [[Kryuger]] had given them during [[Parapluie|Plan Parapluie]], set off to plant the explosives. [[Kalina]] asked to handle one of the valves but the Commander refused, not wanting to expose her to even more danger, instead ordering her to support the Dolls.<ref name=PL49B>{{cite|gfl|pl|Silvering I}}</ref> The Commander sneaked into the KCCO temporary command post and took out two of their officers before planting the explosives, putting them on a 5-minutes timer, but they were discovered by the soldiers and attacked.<ref name=PL51>{{cite|gfl|pl|Unfathomable Singularity}}</ref> Warned by Kalina, {{doll name|HK416|AR|6|costume=costume3}} and {{doll name|UMP45|SMG|5|costume=costume3}}, on the way back from sublevel 2, left the young [[Nyto]]s to be evacuated by {{doll name|UMP9|SMG|5|costume=costume4}} and {{doll name|G11|AR|5}} and rushed to assist the Commander<ref name=C131 /> while waiting for a G&K team led by {{doll name|SL8|RF|5}}<ref name=C132>{{cite|gfl|13-2}}</ref> and [[AR Team]] to reinforce them.<ref name=PL52C>{{cite|gfl|pl|Causality Separating Plane}}</ref> The reinforcements arrived when the sea valves exploded and they took an elevator to the surface.<ref name=C133E />

====Sinner defied====
[[File:BG Polarized Light 6.png|thumb|[[Task Force DEFY]] take on Captain [[Yegor]] and the [[Ares]] mech.]]
{{StoryQuote|Isn't this what makes Dolls so handy? Death is our prerogative, and victory is yours, Ange. It's weird for you to feel compassion for us. Just let us have some fun.|{{doll name|AK-12|AR|5}}<ref name=C135 />}}
When Amber Flight reached the main elevator,<ref name=PL44B>{{cite|gfl|pl|Tempering I}}</ref> they couldn't ride it past sublevel 1 and were confronted by {{enemy name|Agent|boss}} and {{enemy name|Judge|boss}}. At the same time, [[AR Team]], [[Task Force DEFY]] and [[Squad 404]] had regrouped at the main elevator. [[Angelia]] ordered {{doll name|M4A1|AR|5|costume=costume1}} and [[Dandelion]] to reach the [[Starfish]] and break {{enemy name|Elisa|boss}}'s connection, while herself and DEFY would take on Amber Flight while they were pinned down by [[Sangvis Ferri]]'s ringleaders.<ref name=PL46B>{{cite|gfl|pl|Cutting I}}</ref> While the other three mechs fought Agent and Judge, Captain [[Yegor]] rushed inside the base towards the Starfish. DEFY rushed after Yegor, while the remaining mechs were taken out by M4 and {{enemy name|Beluga|boss|alt=M16A1}}.<ref name=PL412B>{{cite|gfl|pl|Virtual Image Reforging}}</ref><ref name=C133 /> {{doll name|AK-12|AR|5}} saw no chance of victory against the Ares mech until Angelia informed her that {{doll name|RPK-16|MG|5}} and {{doll name|AK-15|AR|5}} were also participating in the operation, reassembling the full Task Force DEFY after two years of separation.<ref name=AN94>{{cite|gfl|{{doll name|AN-94|AR|6|costume=costume3}}'s Neural Upgrade story 4}}</ref> After RPK and 15 linked up with Angelia, 12 and 94, 12 shared her strategy to take on the mech, which focused on Angelia's survival and expected the four Dolls to sacrifice themselves.<ref name=C135>{{cite|gfl|13-5}}</ref>

When Yegor reached sublevel 2,<ref name=PL51 /> he became lost because of the modifications made by [[Paradeus]] to the base's structure. The size of the mech made moving impractical and DEFY continued to harass him, using explosives to force him on a specific route.<ref name=PL52B /><ref name=C135 /> After he entered the room trapped by DEFY, all lights were shut down and he activated the infrared cameras of the mech. He was immediately blinded when the Dolls threw incendiary grenades, giving them time to take out the mech's port side camera. When Yegor attempted to back out, explosions cut all escapes and took out one of the support columns of the room, causing the floor to slant and the legs of the mech to extend into a vulnerable configuration. 15 managed to reach the mech and plant one of her explosive rivets on the joint of the left leg. Yegor fired with the mech's machine gun on the Dolls rushing him, but DEFY was exploiting the limitations of the cannon's angle. Yegor fired high explosive fragmentation missiles on the ceiling of the room, taking out the T-Dolls with shrapnel. As Yegor redirected his attention to search for Angelia, he failed to notice that 12 was still moving:<ref name=PL52B /><ref name=C135 /> before the battle, RPK had told 94 that she was responsible for the team's success as 12's protector, driving 94 to act as 12's shield.<ref name=AN94 /> Taking the explosives carried by RPK, 12 crawled to the Ares and took down the right leg of the mech in a suicide bombing. Incapable of moving and a sitting duck as soon as he would open the cockpit, Yegor admitted defeat and awaited to be drowned by the seawater coming from the ceiling.<ref name=PL52B>{{cite|gfl|pl|Light Cone Frame of Reference I}}</ref><ref name=C135 />

To his surprise, Angelia opened the cockpit and asked him to expose the KCCO's plans, but he only confirmed that their goal was to preserve the independence of the Neo-[[Soviet Union]]. It is not specified if Ange shot Yegor or left him to drown. She recovered the neural core from the body of one of her Dolls, containing the team's backups, and made her way to the surface.<ref name=C133E />

====Reverse Collapse====
{{StoryQuote|And so it begins. The story of the destined children. The story that sets the world on its path of destruction. The gears have started turning. Collapse and reconstruction. Disintegration and rebirth.|<ref name=C133E />}}
Alerted about the impending flooding of the base, {{doll name|M4A1|AR|5|costume=costume1}} ordered the rest of [[AR Team]] to retreat while she would go after {{enemy name|Beluga|boss|alt=M16A1}}, being the only one who could withstand her hacking. [[Dandelion]] sent her body back to the surface with AR Team, but her consciousness remained with M4. The activation of the [[Starfish]] also boosted Dandelion's hacking power by increasing the local density of [[OGAS]] connections and bringing her closer to [[Xian]]. After destroying the last {{enemy name|Ares|boss}} mech, M4 and Dandelion confronted M16 in the main elevator. M4 and Dandelion's plan was to simultaneously attack M16 physically and by hacking, forcing her to split her processing power until she was overwhelmed.<ref name=PL52A>{{cite|gfl|pl|Observable Limits I}}</ref><ref name=C133>{{cite|gfl|13-3}}</ref> Unexpectedly, M16's OGAS consciousness, who had grown frustrated with her, accepted to merge with Dandelion, severely weakening M16.<ref name=C134>{{cite|gfl|13-4}}</ref> M16 was beaten and M4 accessed her memories to learn her reasons for coming to Paldiski: during the [[Butterfly Incident]], {{enemy name|Elisa|boss}} saved M16 under the condition that she help her reach her perfected state.<ref name=PL53A /><ref name=C134 /> Learning that OGAS originated from [[William]]'s plan, M4 realized that [[Sangvis Ferri]] were also victims of his plans, and decided to save Elisa<ref name=C134 /><ref name=C131E /> and use her knowledge as well SF's strategic abilities to take revenge on William. M16 attempted to detonate the explosives she had prepared to destroy the Starfish, but she was stopped by a new neural attack that nearly killed her.<ref name=C131E />

At the bottom of the base, Elisa still attempted to complete her connection to the Starfish, and inadvertently accessed a buried file where [[Lycoris]] explained that he had purposefully made her imperfect, after he realized that perfecting her would be playing into William's hand. Elisa continued her connection attempts regardless, having already sacrificed too much to give up, and M4 arrived in the room to stop her.<ref name=PL53A>{{cite|gfl|pl|Blackbody Radiation I}}</ref> Elisa's persistence caused the aurora above the base to intensify,<ref name=PL52C /> but M4 broke through her digital defenses, putting herself at risk of being absorbed by the Source.<ref name=PL55A>{{cite|gfl|pl|Escape Acceleration I}}</ref> Hacking into Elisa's Level III base layer allowed M4 and Dandelion to contact the consciousnesses within Xian, who warned them not to enter and rejected Elisa as a forgery.

Still holding to the idea that reaching Xian would make her perfect and save Sangvis Ferri's Dolls from human control forever, Elisa expelled M4 from her Neural Cloud, forcing M4 to physically destroyer the connection ports in the flooding Starfish control room.<ref name=C132E>{{cite|gfl|13-2E}}</ref> Weakening Elisa's connection to the Starfish allowed Dandelion, who now tried to ensure M4's survival, to speak with Elisa's OGAS consciousness and offer a deal: by absorbing her, Dandelion would gather the computational power required to use the [[Collapse fluid]] powering the Starfish and save the Neural Clouds of the Dolls in the room, by transferring them to Xian through [[Collapse Technology|Reverse Collapse]]. Dandelion then had M4 destroy the Starfish itself,<ref name=C133E /> intending to use its explosion to trigger the process. M4 allowed Dandelion to merge with her to reach the computational power threshold required, bringing her closest to the original [[Lunasia]] yet. Before the explosion, M16 lamented that M4 had become the [[relics]] key William wanted to create from the start.<ref name=C134E>{{cite|gfl|13-4E}}</ref>

==Alternate timeline==
In an alternate timeline, during the Paldiski Incident, {{doll name|M4A1|AR|5|costume=costume1}} fully connected with [[Xian]] through the activated [[Starfish]] and accessed unspecified information of great importance. However, the activation of the Starfish caused the base to collapse, killing {{enemy name|Beluga|boss|alt=M16A1}}. M4's knowledge played a major role in subsequent events in that timeline, but she was killed along with [[the Commander]] during the battle in Frankfurt at the end of 2064.<ref name=C18>{{cite|gfl|cartesian|E18}}</ref> The survivors of this alternate [[AR Team]] went on to influence the events of the prime timeline by entering [[#Tarot paradise|Tarot paradise]].

==Aftermath==
===Physical world===
[[File:BG Story 13-3E 1.png|thumb|Some surviving T-Dolls of the incident (from left to right: {{doll name|AK-74U|SMG|5}}, {{doll name|HK416|AR|5}}, {{doll name|SL8|RF|5}} and {{doll name|OTs-12|AR|3}}).]]
{{StoryQuote|I was once a soldier myself, so I only trust people who have come back alive from the battlefield. And there are only three kinds of people who come back from the battlefield. The first kind are timid to the end of their days, who view even the daylight streaming into their rooms as an enemy bombardment. The second are drunk on slaughter and bloodshed, who build their joy on the suffering of others. You, [[The Commander|Commander]], belong to the third kind. They are people who know why they fight. Their convictions make them keener, braver, fiercer, and more eager for battle.|[[Kryuger]]<ref name=MS13B>{{cite|gfl|ms|Wrestling Snakes II}}</ref>}}
After the destruction of the [[Starfish]], the last surviving [[KCCO]] forces executed their final standing order and launched a suicide attack. They were wiped out by the remaining [[Griffin & Kryuger|Griffin]] T-Dolls. [[Dandelion]]'s consciousness returned to her body when {{doll name|M4A1|AR|5|costume=costume1}} left the physical world. The Reverse Collapse performed by M4 was detected by the [[Rossartrism|Prometheans]] and [[Paradeus]], and proved that the phenomenon could be applied in practice, which was one of the conditions [[William]] needed to revive [[Lunasia]].<ref name=C134E /> During the battle, [[Statesec]] deployed their agents in Moscow and successfully captured several of the KCCO's co-conspirators.<ref name=C135 /><ref name=C134E />

The [[Vympel]] detachment near Paldiski took control of the flooded base, but there was not much left for Statesec to recover that wasn't already in Griffin or Angelia's custody.<ref name=DR13A /> The Prometheans planned to redistribute the assets recovered from Paldiski to support the upcoming formation of the [[URNC]].<ref name=C135 /> Among the data recovered by Angelia in Paldiski were traces of equipment originally belonging to the city of Bremen, in [[Germany]], and [[Task Force DEFY]] crossed the border a few days later to investigate Paradeus' presence in the city<ref name=DR13A>{{cite|gfl|dr|Departure Time III}}</ref> with [[K]]'s support.<ref>{{cite|gfl|dr|The Curtain Rises I}}</ref> This was in fact a botched misdirection from Paradeus, who initially intended to lead Angelia to Berlin.<ref name=FP11 /> After a few days of interrogation at their temporary base, the Griffin staff returned to their own base in Area S09 a week after the incident.<ref>{{cite|gfl|dr|Departure Time I}}</ref> G&K participated in the battlefield sweep to recover the neural core of their destroyed Dolls.<ref name=RO2>{{cite|gfl|{{doll name|RO635|SMG|6|costume=costume3}}'s Neural Upgrade story 2}}</ref>

While they were expected to be wiped out,<ref name=MS13B /> the Commander and Angelia's victory at Paldiski marked them as prime persons of interest on the geopolitical scene.<ref>{{cite|gfl|dr|Hay Fever – Beginning}}</ref> In Germany, subfactions of the [[Stasi]] temporarily detained Angelia to interrogate her about the Paldiski Incident,<ref>{{cite|gfl|ms|An Arrow in Flight I}}</ref> and the DEFY Dolls were attacked by unidentified agents who attempted to take their [[Neural Cloud]]s for details about the incident.<ref>{{cite|gfl|dr|Animal Chess}}</ref>

The devastating loss of T-Dolls in Paldiski pushed the Commander to implement more thorough combat training programs, including Paradeus-specific tactics. Some teams such as Squad Negev were a good fit for these expectations, while others such as Squad Puzzle struggled.<ref>{{cite|gfl|ms|Survival Guide}}</ref><ref>{{cite|gfl|ms|Wrestling Snakes I}}</ref> Despite demonstrating her loyalty during the incident, {{doll name|Gepard M1|RF|4|costume=costume4}} lost her memories and attempted to resign from G&K because she was uncertain if she had deserted during the battle. She found her courage again during the [[Fireworks Incident]].<ref name=Gepard /> Being surprised and dollnapped by [[Anna]] during the incident was one of the reasons that pushed {{doll name|G11|AR|6|costume=costume6}} to request a neural upgrade soon after.<ref>{{cite|gfl|{{doll name|G11|AR|6|costume=costume6}}'s Neural Upgrade story 1}}</ref> With M4 now MIA, {{doll name|RO635|AR|5}} became [[AR Team]]'s leader and [[Persica]] asked her to take the neural upgrade she had been pushing back for fear of facing her nature as a third-generation Doll.<ref>{{cite|gfl|{{doll name|RO635|SMG|6|costume=costume3}}'s Neural Upgrade story 1}}</ref> During the battlefield sweep of Paldiski, RO noticed [[Inherited Case|M16's portable cannon]] and felt compelled to retrieve it. She was damaged in the process, but her emotional response was one of the events that led her to come to terms with her nature.<ref name=RO2 />

The incident marked the second time the Commander and [[Kalina]] were severely exposed to [[Collapse]] radiation after the [[Great Retreat]]. While the Commander developed a semi-immunosome resistance to Collapse radiation as a result of these events,<ref>{{cite|gfl|ms|Atropos’ Shears I}}</ref> Kalina's condition aggravated later in the year and she was hospitalized during the events in Germany.<ref>{{cite|gfl|ms|Selene’s Dream}}</ref>

What happened to most of the [[Sangvis Ferri]] ringleaders after the battle isn't clearly defined, but it appears that {{enemy name|Agent|boss}} couldn't keep them united. {{enemy name|Gager|boss}} returned to Area S09 alone to recover {{enemy name|Architect|boss}} from Griffin,<ref>{{cite|gfl|dr|Pollinosis}}</ref> and {{enemy name|Dreamer|boss}} and {{enemy name|Destroyer|boss}} took refuge in the abandoned building of Worcester-Zeratul Pharmaceuticals, where Dreamer attempted to keep the severely damaged Destroyer functioning. After G&K implemented [[Protocol Assimilation]] with the help of [[Svarog Heavy Industries]], Dreamer and Destroyer were marked for retrieval and conversion,<ref>{{cite|gfl|dr|Ghost Sisters V}}</ref> while other ringleaders such as {{enemy name|Ouroboros|boss}} were converted from spare bodies found in their former areas of operation.<ref>{{cite|gfl|dr|Operation Snake Eater V}}</ref> While many capture operations were launched in the ringleaders' old stomping grounds, it's unknown if they were merely spare bodies or the same that had returned after taking part in the incident.<ref>{{cite|gfl|[[Protocol Assimilation]]}}</ref> At least one ringleader, {{enemy name|Beak|boss}}, was acquired not by G&K but by Statesec.<ref name=PR12>{{cite|gfl|pr|E1-2}}</ref>

===Tarot Paradise===
The Reverse Collapse sent {{enemy name|Beluga|boss|alt=M16A1}}, {{enemy name|Elisa|boss}} and {{doll name|M4A1|AR|5|costume=costume1}} to the Relic space called [[List of Locations#Relic space|Tarot Paradise]], where the entity calling herself {{enemy name|Laplace's Demon|boss}} organized a battle royale between Dolls taken from various timelines to determine suitable vessels for [[Lunasia]]'s resurrection. While M4 was forced into the identity of Lunasia,<ref>{{cite|gfl|cartesian|E6}}</ref> M16 teamed up with the alternate [[AR Team]],<ref name=C18 /> who had received a message from “Leinad Kcaj” and returned to Paldiski to use the [[Starfish]] and reach Tarot Paradise, with the promise to save M4.<ref>{{cite|gfl|cartesian|E10}}</ref><ref>{{cite|gfl|cartesian|E14}}</ref> The message and the Major Arcana of the Wheel of Fortune, which they used to free M4 and defeat Laplace's Demon, in fact originated from the M16 of the prime timeline: after reaching Tarot Paradise, M16A1-prime entered a causality loop where she acquired the Major Arcana and learned of Leinad Kcaj's message from the alternate AR Team, then later sent the same assets back in time to the alternate AR Team.<ref>{{cite|gfl|cartesian|E23}}</ref>

M16 and AR Team defeated Elisa and Laplace's Demon, but Lunasia still made contact with M4. By demonstrating her power to influence causality and save AR Team and [[the Commander]] from their powerful enemies, M4 was convinced to become Lunasia's vessel. The alternate AR Team and M16 accepted to be sacrificed to strengthen her power as a vessel.<ref>{{cite|gfl|cartesian|E21}}</ref> [[Dandelion]] later made direct contact with the completed Lunasia while investigating the Lake of Consciousness during the [[Battle of the Dead Sea]].<ref>{{cite|gfl|cartesian|E22}}</ref>

After her sacrifice to empower M4, M16 completed the causality loop and was returned to the physical world. She drifted, unconscious, in the sea near Paldiski and was located and recovered by [[Statesec]]. The agency extracted her [[Neural Cloud]] from her body, which was badly corroded from [[Collapse fluid]] and seawater, and purged the [[Parapluie]] virus from her system. She awakened a few days into the operations against [[Paradeus]] in Germany. The command authorizations of M16 were transferred to Statesec<ref>{{cite|gfl|cartesian|E23}}</ref> and she was assigned to team Black Box, where she took part in the operations in Berlin<ref name=PR12 /> and in the Battle of the Dead Sea.<ref>{{cite|gfl|fp|E1-2}}</ref>

==Dubiously canon events==
{{doll name|M950A|HG|6|costume=costume5}}'s Neural Upgrade story takes place during the Paldiski Incident and is thematically an extension of the story of the collab event [[Glory Day]].

This story mentions that the collab units {{doll name|Clear|HG|extra}} and {{doll name|Fail|HG|extra}} took part in the battle, as well as the Tactical Fairies {{fairy name|Suee|strategy}}, {{fairy name|Sehra & Nina|combat}} and {{fairy name|Preiya & Camilla|combat}}. In this story, {{doll name|Thunder|HG|4}} and {{doll name|M950A|HG|5}} become trapped and wounded by [[KCCO]] soldiers while retreating to the wrecked G&K train after it was struck by KCCO artillery. An {{fairy name|Origin Fairy|combat}} sacrifices her own parts to not only repair M950A's body, but also significantly upgrade it and give her a new outfit and gear in a matter of minutes, allowing her to go toe-to-toe with military automatons and bring Thunder back before taking part in extracting the Commander from the train.

==Belligerants==
''Characters marked † were confirmed killed or destroyed in the battle. T-Dolls marked ‡ are not confirmed survivors but were in the field by the time of the [[Fireworks Incident]].''

;[[Griffin & Kryuger]]
*Command
**[[The Commander]]
**[[Kalina]]
**[[Dandelion]]
*T-Dolls
**[[AR Team]]
***{{doll name|M4A1|AR|5|costume=costume1}}
***{{doll name|ST AR-15|AR|5|costume=costume2}}
***{{doll name|M4 SOPMOD II|AR|5|costume=costume1}}
***{{doll name|RO635|AR|5}}
**[[Squad 404]]
***{{doll name|UMP45|SMG|5|costume=costume3}}
***{{doll name|UMP9|SMG|5|costume=costume4}}
***{{doll name|HK416|AR|6|costume=costume3}}
***{{doll name|G11|AR|5}}
**Group B<ref name=PL14B />
***Team Thompson<ref name=PL14B />
****{{doll name|Thompson|SMG|5}}‡<ref name=PL14B />
****{{doll name|M9|HG|3}}<ref name=PL14B />
****{{doll name|MAC-10|SMG|3}}‡<ref name=PL14B />
****{{doll name|M3|SMG|2}}<ref name=PL14B />
****{{doll name|Ak 5|AR|4}}<ref>{{cite|gfl|pl|Labyrinthine Defense}}</ref>
***Squad B3<ref name=PL14B />
****{{doll name|MP5|SMG|4}}<ref name=PL14B />
***Squad B4<ref name=PL14B />
****{{doll name|P7|HG|4}}<ref name=PL14B />
***Squad B5 (Team Palette)<ref name=PL14B />
****{{doll name|Makarov|HG|3}}<ref name=PL110 />
****{{doll name|Type 92|HG|3}}<ref name=PL14B />
****{{doll name|Sten MkII|SMG|3}}<ref name=PL14B />
****{{doll name|AAT-52|MG|2}}<ref name=PL14B />
**Group C<ref name=PL14B />
***Squad C3 (Team Negev)<ref name=PL14B />
****{{doll name|Negev|MG|5}}‡<ref name=PL14B />
****{{doll name|Micro Uzi|SMG|3}}<ref name=PL14B />
****{{doll name|TAR-21|AR|4}}<ref name=PL14B />
**Group D<ref name=PL21B />
***{{doll name|IWS 2000|RF|5}}<ref name=PL21B />
***{{doll name|AUG|AR|5}}<ref name=PL21B />
**Group G<ref name=PL14B />
***Team G1†<ref name=PL14B />
****{{doll name|Welrod MkII|HG|5}}‡<ref name=PL14B /><ref name=PL21B />
***Team G3†<ref name=PL14B />
***Team G5 (Team Kar)<ref name=PL14B /><ref name=PL21B />
****{{doll name|Kar98k|RF|5}}‡<ref name=PL14B />
****{{doll name|StG44|SMG|4|costume=costume1}}<ref name=PL14B />
****{{doll name|G43|RF|2}}<ref name=PL14B />
****{{doll name|MP41|SMG|3}}<ref name=PL14B /><ref name=PL21B />
***Team G7†<ref name=PL14B />
**Group K<ref name=PL14B>{{cite|gfl|pl|Reflector I}}</ref>
**Team Garand<ref name=PL48B />
***{{doll name|M1 Garand|RF|3}}<ref name=PL48B />
***{{doll name|M1918|MG|4}}<ref name=PL48B /> (featured in Polarized Light's event PV)
**Team Springfield<ref name=PL48B />
***{{doll name|Springfield|RF|4}}<ref name=PL48B />
**Squad ATK<ref name=Calico />
***{{doll name|K2|AR|5}}<ref name=Calico />
***{{doll name|M950A|HG|6|costume=costume5}}<ref name=Calico>{{cite|gfl|{{doll name|M950A|HG|6|costume=costume5}}'s Neural Upgrade story}}</ref>
***{{doll name|Thunder|HG|4}}<ref name=Calico />
***{{doll name|AEK-999|MG|4}}<ref name=Calico />
***{{doll name|TMP|SMG|4}}<ref name=Calico />
**{{doll name|SV-98|RF|3}}<ref name=PL48B />
**{{doll name|Hanyang Type 88|RF|4|costume=costume2}}<ref name=PL48B />
**{{doll name|SL8|RF|5}}<ref name=PL113 /><ref name=PL21B />
**{{doll name|CF05|SMG|4}}†<ref name=PL113 /><ref name=PL21B /><ref name=PL310 />
**{{doll name|L85A1|AR|2}}<ref name=PL21B />
**{{doll name|M82|AR|4}}†<ref name=PL310 />
**{{doll name|INSAS|AR|3}}†<ref name=PL310 />
**{{doll name|Webley|HG|5}}†<ref name=PL310 />
**{{doll name|Lee-Enfield|RF|5}}†<ref name=PL48B /><ref name=Gepard>{{cite|gfl|{{doll name|Gepard M1|RF|4|costume=costume4}}'s Neural Upgrade story}}</ref> (featured in Polarized Light's event PV)
**{{doll name|Gepard M1|RF|3}}†<ref name=Gepard />
**{{doll name|AK-74U|SMG|5}}<ref name=C133E />
**{{doll name|OTs-12|AR|3}})<ref name=C133E />
List of other G&K T-Dolls available in the game at the time of [[Polarized Light]] but not explicitly mentioned as part of G&K's forces during the battle: {{CollapseSection|
Total count:
*280 (lowest, excluding HOCs and Dolls uncertain in canon)
*305 (highest, counting HOC members individually)

''[[UMP40]] is excluded from this list as the only playable unit canonically permanently destroyed at the time of the events of Polarized Light.''
*[[2B14]]
*[[AGS-30]]
*[[AT4]]
*[[BGM-71]]
*[[M2]]
*[[QLZ-04]]
*[[43M]]
*[[6P62]]
*[[9A-91]]
*[[A-91]]
*[[AA-12]]
*[[ACR]]
*[[AEK-999]]
*[[ADS]]
*[[AK-47]]
*[[Ameli]]
*[[AR70]]
*[[ART556]]
*[[ARX-160]]
*[[Astra Revolver]]
*[[AS Val]]
*[[Ballista]]
*[[Beretta Model 38]]
*[[BM59]]
*[[Bren]]
*[[Bren Ten]]
*[[C-93]]
*[[C-MS]]
*[[C96]]
*[[Carcano M1891]]
*[[Carcano M91∕38]]
*[[CAWS]]
*[[Chauchat]]
*[[Colt Revolver]]
*[[Contender]]
*[[CR-21]]
*[[Cx4 Storm]]
*[[CZ-805]]
*[[CZ2000]]
*[[CZ52]]
*[[CZ75]]‡
*[[Desert Eagle]]
*[[DP-12]]
*[[DP28]]
*[[DSR-50]]
*[[EM-2]]
*[[EVO 3]]
*[[F1]]
*[[F2000]]
*[[FAL]]
*[[Falcon]]
*[[FAMAS]]
*[[FG42]]
*[[Five-seveN]]
*[[FMG-9]]
*[[FN-49]]
*[[FNC]]
*[[FNP-9]]
*[[FP-6]]
*[[G28]]
*[[G3]]
*[[G36]]
*[[G36C]]
*[[G41]]
*[[Galil]]
*[[Glock 17]]
*[[Grizzly MkV]]‡
*[[GSh-18]]‡
*[[HK21]]
*[[HK23]]
*[[HK33]]
*[[HK45]]
*[[Honey Badger]]
*[[Howa Type 64]]
*[[HS2000]]
*[[IDW]]
*[[Jericho]]
*[[JS 9]]
*[[JS05]]
*[[K11]]
*[[K2]]
*[[K3]]
*[[K31]]
*[[K5]]
*[[KAC-PDW]]
*[[KLIN]]
*[[Kord]]
*[[KS-23]]
*[[KSG]]
*[[KSVK]]
*[[Lewis]]
*[[Liberator]]‡
*[[LWMMG]]
*[[M1014]]
*[[M14]]
*[[M1A1]]
*[[M12]]
*[[M1887]]
*[[M1895 CB]]
*[[M1897]]
*[[M1911]]
*[[M1919A4]]
*[[M200]]‡
*[[M21]]
*[[M249 SAW]]
*[[M2HB]]
*[[M37]]
*[[m45]]
*[[M500]]
*[[M590]]
*[[M60]]
*[[M82A1]]
*[[M870]]
*[[M99]]
*[[MAT-49]]
*[[Magal]]
*[[MAS-38]]
*[[MDR]]
*[[MG3]]
*[[MG34]]
*[[MG36]]
*[[MG4]]
*[[MG42]]
*[[MG5]]
*[[Mk 12]]
*[[Mk23]]
*[[Mk46]]
*[[Mk48]]
*[[Model L]]
*[[Mosin-Nagant]]
*[[MP-443]]‡
*[[MP-446]]
*[[MP-448]]
*[[MP40]]
*[[MP7]]
*[[MT-9]]
*[[Nagant Revolver]]
*[[NS2000]]
*[[NTW-20]]‡
*[[NZ75]]
*[[OBR]]
*[[OTs-14]]
*[[OTs-39]]
*[[OTs-44]]
*[[P08]]
*[[P22]]
*[[P226]]
*[[P30]]
*[[P38]]
*[[P90]]
*[[P99]]
*[[PA-15]]
*[[PK]]
*[[PKP]]
*[[PM-06]]
*[[PM-9]]
*[[PP-19]]
*[[PP-19-01]]
*[[PP-90]]
*[[PPS-43]]
*[[PPK]]‡
*[[PPSh-41]]
*[[PSG-1]]
*[[PSM]]
*[[PTRD]]
*[[Px4 Storm]]
*[[Python]]
*[[PzB 39]]
*[[QBU-88]]
*[[R5]]
*[[R93]]
*[[RFB]]
*[[Ribeyrolles]]‡
*[[RMB-93]]
*[[RT-20]]
*[[S.A.T.8]]
*[[Saiga-12]]
*[[SAR-21]]
*[[SCW]]
*[[Serdyukov]]
*[[Shipka]]
*[[Skorpion]]
*[[SIG-510]]
*[[SIG-556]]
*[[Simonov]]
*[[Six12]]
*[[SPAS-12]]
*[[SM-1]]
*[[Spectre M4]]
*[[Spitfire]]‡
*[[SPP-1]]
*[[SPR A3G]]
*[[SR-3MP]]
*[[SRS]]
*[[SSG 69]]
*[[SSG 3000]]
*[[Stechkin]]
*[[Steyr Scout]]
*[[Suomi]]
*[[Super-Shorty]]
*[[Super SASS]]
*[[SVD]]
*[[SVT-38]]
*[[T-5000]]
*[[T65]]
*[[T77]]
*[[T91]]
*[[TAC-50]]
*[[T-CMS]]
*[[TEC-9]]
*[[TMP]]
*[[Tokarev]]‡
*[[Type 03]]
*[[Type 4]]
*[[Type 56]]
*[[Type 56-1]]
*[[Type 59]]
*[[Type 62]]
*[[Type 63]]
*[[Type 64]]
*[[Type 79]]
*[[Type 80]]
*[[Type 81 Carbine]]
*[[Type 88]]
*[[Type 95]]
*[[Type 97]]
*[[Type 97 Shotgun]]
*[[Type 100]]
*[[UKM-2000]]
*[[USAS-12]]
*[[USP Compact]]
*[[Vector]]
*[[VP70]]
*[[WA2000]]‡
*[[wz.29]]
*[[X95]]
*[[XM3]]
*[[XM8]]
*[[Z-62]]
*[[Zas M21]]
*[[Zas M76]]
*Dolls seen within Statesec forces before the events of Polarized Light<ref>{{cite|gfl|ls|5-α5}}</ref>
**[[ASh-12.7]]
**[[PP-2000]]
**[[RPD]]
*Dolls not implemented in CN at the time of Polarized Light release
**[[Howa Type 89]] (JP)
*Dolls of dubious canonicity<ref name=Calico />
**[[Clear]]
**[[Fail]]
}}
;[[Statesec]]
*[[Task Force DEFY]]
**[[Angelia]]
**{{doll name|AK-12|AR|5}}
**{{doll name|AN-94|AR|5}}
**{{doll name|AK-15|AR|5}}
**{{doll name|RPK-16|MG|5}}
*[[Stasi]] liaised agent Major [[K|Kain Schwaben]] (“K”, Codename Waterfall, DINV-RTSA-1239)<ref name=PL44B />
*[[Vympel]] 4th Detachment<ref name=PL44B />
**Squad Cobalt-13<ref name=PL44B />
*22nd Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Division<ref name=PL11/>
;[[Sangvis Ferri]]
*{{enemy name|Elisa|boss}}
*{{enemy name|Beluga|boss|alt=M16A1}}
*{{enemy name|Executioner|boss}}
*{{enemy name|Scarecrow|boss}}
*{{enemy name|Destroyer|boss}}
*{{enemy name|Dreamer|boss}}
*{{enemy name|Hunter|boss}}
*{{enemy name|Alchemist|boss}}
*{{enemy name|Intruder|boss}}
;[[KCCO]]
*Captain [[Yegor]]<ref name=PL23B /> (“Terra”, Amber 4)†<ref name=PL42B />
*14th Infantry Reconnaissance Company<ref name=PL14B />
*52nd Armored Company<ref name=PL14B />
*54th Armored Company<ref name=PL14B />
*Autonomous Company C<ref name=PL14B />
*Autonomous Company D<ref name=PL14B />
*“Quartz” Mobile Team<ref name=PL110 /><ref name=PL23B />
*“Hematite”†<ref name=PL110 /><ref name=PL412B />
*“Zircon”†<ref name=PL42B /><ref name=PL412B />
*Amber Flight<ref name=PL46B /><ref name=PL412B />
**Amber 1†<ref name=PL42B />
**Amber 2†<ref name=PL412B />
**Amber 3†<ref name=PL412B />
**Amber 4 (Yegor)†<ref name=PL42B />
*{{enemy name|Typhon|alt=Typhons}}<ref name=PL48B /><ref name=Calico />
;[[Paradeus]]
*Regular [[Nyto]] forces

==Notes==
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==References==
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