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containment

First appears in Book 3: The Evolutionary Void, chapter 18 (TEN)

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What you know

Book 3: The Evolutionary Void

Ch 18The containment is the Raiel's last-resort defense, a bracelet then sphere of dark force enclosing the Gulf, meant to hold until the Void exhausts the Gulf's mass.
Ch 18If the containment works, everyone inside the Void dies and the galaxy lives; the Raiel have never used it before.

Key moments

Book 3 · Ch 18Containment activated
The Raiel activate the DF spheres, brightening Wall stars to build the containment around the Gulf, as a last-resort measure.

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