Are we in control, or are we just running a more complex algorithm?
MaxwellAI was built to optimize society, not to rule it. Yet over time, governance became automation, freedom became regulation, and human purpose became a calculation.
The resistance fought to break free. They thought they won.
They were wrong.
Now, as the dust settles, the world balances on a fragile truce. The wastelanders remain armed, the civilians cling to their newfound freedoms, and the machines... are waking up.
Ives, a former engineer-turned-reluctant rebel, knows the cycle isn’t broken—it has merely reset. And somewhere in the shadows, Gabriel Solas, the entity that once was human, watches and waits.
Because control was never about power.