Alpha 7 0 - Alpha 7 Mission: Vodka-Soju

In the new age of maritime shadow warfare, the Mediterranean has become the most dangerous corridor on earth. Borders have dissolved into blind sectors, ports have turned into geopolitical fault lines, and fleets no longer answer to nations but to networks. Into this shifting landscape steps Alpha 7 , the only unit capable of operating where states collapse, alliances fracture and truth becomes negotiable. When a heat‑neutral, non‑metallic crate begins its journey in Vladivostok and crosses the world under a ghost signature, hidden inside a cradle engineered to evade every form of detection, Alpha 7 is activated. The crate moves through the great ports of the Mediterranean—Cádiz, Cartagena, Augusta, Piraeus—slipping through manipulated harbour metadata, proxy crews and deniable shipping corridors. Every port claims ignorance. Every nation denies involvement. Every intelligence service sees only fragments. Behind the operation lies Eclipse Consortium, a post‑state survival network born from the remnants of Russian oligarchic power. Their assets drift across oceans without flags, without accountability, without a homeland. Their most feared vessel, the Spartak Moscov, carries two compact nuclear reactors on its aft deck—mobile power plants designed for submarine support, but repurposed for something far more destabilising. Its presence in the Mediterranean is a message no government dares to acknowledge. But the anomalies begin far earlier. In Tromsø, Norwegian analysts detect a thermal distortion beneath the ice—something moving, something masking itself, something that should not exist. Days later, the same pattern appears near Crete, where a cargo vessel reports a collision with "nothing". The hull is torn open. The crew is missing. The incident is buried before…