"You can do this," Milly replied.

Elizabeth smiled at her daughter and kissed her forehead, before hugging her and her brother.

Soon everyone was gathered together for the presentation.

Emilie took a moment to admire how vast and diverse her collective had become. After basking in its glory, she addressed them directly: "Thank you all for coming, even though this gathering is under less than desirable circumstances."

They all just gave her their undivided attention.

She drew everyone's attention to a massive screen on the nearby wall. She activated it, and the image of their target destination appeared. "Some time ago, we seized the underwater city of Rapture. Now, we set our sights on its sister city in the sky."

"Suffice to say, despite the fall/erasure of its founder and leader, Zachary Hale Comstock, across all various incarnations and versions of it, the city has not particularly improved for the better. It is still the same hotbed of dueling passions: religious fundamentalism, hypernationalism and xenophobia on one side; untrammeled anarchy and chaos on the other."

"However, it is not the human inhabitants themselves we should be most wary of. It is the unfathomable nature surrounding how it remains airborne and the threat it poses, should it seek to expand its borders to the rest of the sky, or, God forbid, the surface."

Everyone took a deep breath at that. "We have identified the perfect location as our staging ground and headquarters. A particularly notable, abandoned estate property that we managed to spruce up."

Elizabeth then took over the explanation from here, as she had been the one to select this particular compound on the city.