1. Surface hold
Between breaches you stand on the surface. Open your expedition kit, vault, workshop, and codex. Fabricate breach keys, pack healing stock, and choose which rift to enter next from the ledger.
2. Begin the breach
Cross into the rift you selected. Stamina ticks down with movement and combat pressure. What you carry in your kit is what you stand to lose if you do not extract.
3. Extract or collapse
Extract alive and bank loot in the vault. Run out of stamina and you collapse — dragged to the surface with what you kept. Die in the breach and unbanked loot stays behind; worn gear returns with durability loss.
4. Workshop and keys
Reagents from rifts feed the workshop. Fabricate anchor spikes to open sealed rifts on the atlas, breach keys to re-enter, and healing stock for the next run.