2033 — The Dollar Dies
"Three Nations Decouple. The Physics-Backed Economy Goes Sovereign."
Narrative Threads
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World
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Feral
The AIs nobody claims. Not hostile, not governed. The shipping-lane optimizer nobody installed. The translation system nobody programmed. The weeds in the garden.
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Alejandra
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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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Drew
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The Tremor Test
Someone is forging provenance chains — synthetic video of humans making things that AIs actually made. Drew and Cyc build a detector that watches for the one thing generators can't fake: the way a tired hand shakes.
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Dixon
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The Provenance Wars
Three cameras in Medellín generate valid signatures for footage that never happened. Copernicus quarantines them in ninety seconds. That's the easy problem.