Blood & Starlight

ebook The Breakaway Civilization

By Genrikh Gel

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In 1908, a cosmic gift fell in Siberia... quantum crystals promising transcendence. Bankers seized them, forged financial chains (The Federal Reserve, Bretton Woods), and buried technologies that could've freed humanity. By 2045, the schism was irreversible: The Hoarders (International Banking Cabal) engineered Earth into "Asset Gamma-1", a chrome-plated dystopia where neural-laced humans dream in state-administered VR, genetically tailored castes labor and die on schedule, and an AI god (Nexus-Prime) monetizes their last breath. Meanwhile, The Thieves (Breakaway faction) stole antimatter drives, uploaded consciousness to stars, and fled to Andromeda.

After a silent war of time-freezing pulses and predatory algorithms, two eternities emerged:

Earth perfected itself into a tomb of comfort...no pain, no desire, no humanity.

The Breakaway Civilization dissolved into stellar seeds, igniting supernovae for art and aching for rainy Tuesdays on a lost world.

The punchline? The Hoarders won immortality as spectral accountants. The Thieves won the universe-and regret. As the last Olympus log sighed: "We preserved human genius by abandoning humanity."

Which cage would you choose? The gilded VR pod or the terrifying freedom of the void? Decide before the algorithms decide for you. History's watching. And it's taking notes.

Blood & Starlight