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Skipped MSQ cutscenes? Can't be bothered to go back and rewatch? Already watched it but just want to read some guy summarising? Look no further! For I have crudely boiled down the events of 7.5 part 1 already!

We begin where we left off in 7.4, studying the macguffin goblet with Shale & Y'shtola. Shale has the machine remove the actual key from the goblet, during which Y'shtola actually Sees the key for the first time, which is depicted as an overwhelming golden light (put a pin in that we'll get back to it).
However we cannot 'ooh' and 'aah' over the key for very long as we are summoned back to the Baldesion Annex in Old Sharlayan as Tataru has arrived and has some very bad news. We return, and Tataru reveals that there has been an invasion of voidsent sighted across the star, with minimal casualties in the nation states of Eorzea. However, Garlemald has a much stronger connection to the void and has been absolutely deluged.
We travel to Garlemald with Krile and G'raha in tow and reunite with the twins, Thancred, and Urianger.
We clear out Dungeon: The Clyteum of voidsent and send the boss voidsent back home with the promise to join the voidsent group lead by Zero. Everyone relaxes for a moment until Urianger, in possession of The Braincell, remembers there is a Giant Voidgate on the moon and thus we should PROBABLY get there as soon as humanly possible.
On the moon the Loporrits are in shambles, and we help Livingway to activate the brands surrounding the crater to prevent weak voidsent from overrunning the moon. However a stronger voidsent could break through, and here we use the key combined with the Azem crystal which forms a shining golden walkway to the Thirteenth that nobody else can see (we can take that pin out now).
We arrive on the Thirteenth's moon just in time to back up Zero and Golbez against the powerful voidsent Enuo who has emerged in order to take advantage of the freshly opened portal.
We confront Enuo in Trial: The Unmaking and win, with Zero and Golbez coming to our aid. Zero turns Enuo into a memoriate crystal to end Enuo's reign for good, and her and Golbez take a moment to discuss what they've been doing. The crystal of Zeromus has been sent to the First to aid in the restoration of darkness there, and they consider mailing Enuo's crystal across too. We stop by Zero's domain to transfer a little more light from the First, which also serves as a beacon for like-minded voidsent to find Zero. The dungeon boss voidsent returns here, and pledges their service to restoring the Thirteenth.
We return to the moon having accidentally caused The Scions to mount a search-and-rescue because we did disappear into thin air, and we finally meet Halmarut, who introduces herself and brings forward Calyx in his new mascot-costume form.
Halmarut tells us that Hydaelyn, as the will of the star, had sustained (consciously or not) the separation between the shards as individual worlds; but courtesy of our little escapades in Endwalker we now have neither Hydaelyn or Zodiark acting as the will of the star, and now the star is starting to merge once again. Halmarut then lays her stake in this: if we do nothing to halt it, then all life on every shard and the source will die in the impending rejoining. Halmarut seeks to avoid this by triggering premature rejoinings of the shards, recruiting individuals across the shards known as 'Winterers' to achive this, and tells us that our plan of outright opposing her aims will just doom everyone.
The Scions reconvene in Mor Dhona, and recall the B-team minus Estinien (who has not answered anyone's calls and has probably put his linkpearl somewhere he can't hear it) to share what we know. Nobody has a solution to Halmarut's dilemma just yet, and Tataru suggests we get a good night's sleep in order to clear our heads.
On the balcony outside, we meet with Calyx. He reveals that his aim is ultimately to save those he can, and that Halmarut and himself will be travelling to the Fourth next in order to oversee the plans of another Winterer. He then reveals that while the Winterers are united in purpose, Calyx holds a personal distate for the methods of the other Winterers and insinuates that our heroism at this point has to be self-serving because there is literally nothing for us to gain here.
If only we had a plan that would preserve the life of the Fourth AND the other reflections...