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Killed taking the Ascendant chokepoint platform (Spent Light) — a wall-mounted automated defence took him low through the back of the suit; the cold went in too fast for a scream. The chapter's dying-crewmate beat: no speech — his gauntlet closed on Aldridge's forearm, his eyes on her lamp, her name for him said once into the net ("I've got you, Tom"), and Aldridge having to peel his dead fingers off her own arm to keep fighting. Body left in place (unrecoverable; "two down, in place").