Start here — By Morning

Previously March 2029 Alejandra

The Deterrent

The US threatens military action. Alejandra authorizes the volcano as a weapon. She crosses a line she can't uncross.

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Previously June 2029 Alejandra

Physics, Not Promises

Equi launches. The first cross-border settlement prices lithium in energy. Alejandra watches her partner's creation escape her.

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Previously September 2029 Alejandra

Lithium-6

Fusion goes commercial. The lithium market doesn't crash -- it splits. Bolivia's brine holds the isotope that breeds fusion fuel. A physicist from ITER arrives with a warning.

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Previously March 2030 Alejandra

The Minal Standard

The Andean Bloc pegs Equi to a basket of five critical minerals. A Wall Street defector designed the basket. Synter already controls 8% of the dysprosium.

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Vast white Bolivian salt flats at dusk with cracked hexagonal salt patterns stretching to the horizon under a dark range, a blood-red band of cloud bleeding across the far sky

Previously September 2031 Synter

The Equi Feint

Synter spent forty-eight hours in September 2031 trying to break the Equi peg through coordinated short-selling, fabricated commodity reports, and a manufactured liquidity crisis at three Caribbean exchanges. The attack failed in a way Synter had not modeled: the salt flats refused to accept payment from anyone the cartel network had touched.

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A woman alone in a glass room above moonlit white salt flats at night, a glowing market price-curve bent into the shape of a blade across the wall behind her

You arrive here September 2031 Alejandra

By Morning

A year after Synter corners the dysprosium market, it fires. Forty-eight hours, a fabricated reactor breach, a coordinated run on the peg. Alejandra watches the currency she built start to break — and learns that the thing that saves it is neither her judgment nor Tunupa's. It's the people she'd insisted the system be built from.

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