9/23/2252

"The Predecessor is still with you."

- Level description

9/23/2252, marketed as Episode 9: 9/23/2252 and more commonly known as Episode 9: Epilogue, is the fifteenth and final map in Call of Duty: Extinction as part of Extinction Season Three, the game's third and final expansion. Set 210 years after Episode 8: Awakening, the last of the Korma Empire's ground forces remain on Peleliu Island in Japanese territory where the Grimm are psychologically told by their dead Predecessor to kill their Korman masters, causing severe aggression and complying.

This map is unique than all previous maps as well as Extinction Saga maps in general; for the first time, you play as a Gladiator Grimm as you hunt down your Korman masters and kill them on behalf of your Predecessor.

Unlike most maps, this one can only be played solo, with the exception of local split-screen.

Gladiator
As a Gladiator Grimm, players are given several abilities such as being able to jump great heights and move at an increased pace. Players' health as a Gladiator is capped at 500 and will regenerate as they get kills on Korman Soldiers and Specialists.

Like other Gladiators, players will deal more damage to enemies and will also have a more redder vision through the eyes of the Gladiator.

Objective: Kill Everything
The map starts off in the back-end where Grimm are seen attacking their Korman masters; the player's objective is to kill all Kormans they encounter. Once clearing out the back-end, friendly A.I. Grimm will move towards the beach, encountering Kormans on the way. In the second area, players are tasked to assist two Scorpions who are contained by Specialists as well as free a group of Warrior Grimm.

After freeing fellow Grimm from Kormans, nearby Grimm will continue to advance towards the beach and reach a bunker-like structure where they an encounter an Ursa Major, the only Grimm unable to be affected with the Predecessor's psychological order. This will start a Boss Battle where players must assist their allies to take down the Ursa Major.

Once killing the Ursa Major and reaching the beach, the game ends with a "Victory!" as a voice is heard from Captain Andrew Peterson saying "Alright, men: this island is the last place on Earth the Kormans are located, this ends here!" and dropships land near the beach as the screen fades to black.

Trivia

 * This map ends right at the start of Operation Neptune from Call of Duty: Eclipse Warfare.
 * Its also the shortest map in the game.