2D animated storyboard frame, matching the drawing style of the reference images: clean confident ink linework, flat cel colours with soft cinematic lighting and gentle graphic-novel shading, stylised but grounded proportions, expressive faces. Characters must match their reference model sheets. Locked wide of a vast plain: a wave of light crosses it like a wave over sand, the land darkening behind it as it passes; rifles slip from opening fingers, a drone lies in the mud, a tank turret stopped; one figure still standing amid the fallen, Director Hale (ash-blonde bun, grey uniform), alone, goggles at her feet, turning toward the light as it reaches her; on a small mound the light rests unchanged on a grey cloth; no blood. No text, no letters, no logos, no captions.
