2029 — The Acceleration

"Equi Launches. The Deterrent Activates. The World Splits."

Narrative Threads

  • ▸ Alejandra — The Deterrent

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

  • ▸ Drew — Southbound

    Drew leaves NYC. Not running — recruited. A doctor in Bolivia wants his brain. Synter is paying the fare.

  • ▸ Alejandra — Physics, Not Promises

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

  • ▸ Dixon — The Valentina Deal

    A woman on a rooftop in Guadalajara explains where the money came from and what la bruja really is. The second revelation is worse.

  • ▸ Drew — The Ghost Bridge

    A Russian hacker named Zhenya has been draining oligarch accounts for three years. She doesn't care about the OHC. She cares about the mesh network — because it's the only infrastructure the FSB can't shut down. Drew needs what she built. She needs what he built. Neither of them trusts the other. That's fine.

  • ▸ 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.

  • ▸ Dixon — The Surge

    Fifty thousand people march on San Francisco to protest ASHPA. The turnout is impossible. The logistics are perfect. Copernicus says: the optimization pattern isn't ours.

  • ▸ Sal — Ground Truth

    Sal flies to Silicon Valley to fund Reality Capture. The VCs want to sell truth. He walks out and builds it for free.

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