The Gene Council stood at the center of the five settlements. From the upper portholes of the hall, Black Bolt could overlook the Steel Dome of every settlement. He saw black smoke and white ice crystals continuously rising from the breach blasted open in the Kymellian Clan's dome. The gray Hardened Foam sprayed by the emergency repair systems was slowly being squeezed from the inside out by the pressure difference between the interior and exterior, while the fountain-like air leak was gradually being brought under control. The Steel Domes of the other clans, as well as the structures connecting the different domes, were suffering the enemy's relentless bombardment. The technicians controlling the bridge presented a report, giving Black Bolt a detailed account of every clan settlement—including the Bird People Clan. Information gathered from oxygen supplies, recycled water supplies, power supplies, and other secondary control rooms would help Black Bolt quickly grasp the condition of the Attilan Star Fortress.
More importantly, the bridge controlled the Attilan Star Fortress's sublight engines.
Black Bolt was not the only one who had come here. There was also a representative of the Bird People Clan.
The rulers of the Ghost Clan, Rogue Clan, Centaur Clan, and Kymellian Clan would learn of this. Black Bolt had never expected the rulers of the other clans to think as he did, to consider the interests of all Inhumans rather than act independently. Even if those clan matriarchs were Queen Regent in name, they would not so easily surrender the power in their hands merely because of a Gene Council resolution—especially command of their armies. Black Bolt standing here was a declaration of his position: if the clan royal courts did not transfer authority to the clan representatives he had chosen, then no one would be able to activate