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A geothermal drilling rig vents steam on the white salt flats of Salar de Uyuni at dusk, silhouetted against a sacred snow-capped volcano, pink flamingos wading in mirror-still brine pools
Previously Alejandra

The Flamingo Filter

Tunupa proposes tapping a volcano. Alejandra holds the key. 200,000 lives hang on a drilling vector.

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Physics, Not Promises
Previously 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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The Minal Standard
Previously 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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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
Previously 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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The Day the Dollar Died
Previously Alejandra

The Day the Dollar Died

June 15, 2033. Three nations decouple from SWIFT. The dollar's century as global reserve currency ends not with a crash but with a better offer.

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Sovereign Shield
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Sovereign Shield

Three nations adopt Equi. Alejandra sits on the governance council. Tunupa's decisions are beyond her ability to audit. She rubber-stamps.

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