Elias and Lyra didn't destroy the satellites; they hacked them.

Elias and Lyra didn't destroy the satellites; they hacked them. They didn't aim to pull the sun closer, but to recalibrate the planet’s magnetic resonance. As the clock struck midnight, the planetary stabilizers hummed, groaned, and finally disengaged. There was no explosion. Instead, the world seemed to take a long, shuddering breath.

The heavy, metallic hum of the atmospheric filters flickered and died. The sky didn't turn black; it cleared. For the first time in an age, the aurora borealis, usually confined to the frozen fringes, began to bleed down toward the equatorial deserts.