SOON TO BE A UNIVERSE-SPANNING CINEMATIC EVENT
What if the universe’s oldest secret was a blueprint for its destruction?
Dr. Aris Thorne, a brilliant but haunted astronomer, believed the whispers of the early cosmos held the key to understanding creation. But a routine scan of the cosmic microwave background – the universe's fading baby picture – reveals an impossible pattern. Not random chance, but a chilling echo of intelligent design, imprinted on the very fabric of spacetime.
This celestial anomaly is only the beginning. Thorne’s investigation unearths terrifying connections between this ancient signal and catastrophic global events, including the Horizon Cascade, a digital dark age that Thorne, in part, helped cause. Haunted by past failures, Aris is driven into a desperate search for answers, a quest that spirals from isolated observatories into the hidden depths of a fractured, AI-managed world.
Joined by a cynical data-wraith navigating the darkest corners of the net, Thorne uncovers a truth far more profound and terrifying than rogue code or human error. Vast, ancient intelligences have been shaping human history for millennia, their motives as inscrutable as the stars themselves. Now, as new cosmic forces emerge – from the enigmatic Kestrel offering cryptic guidance, to the silent, reality-bending influence of the Cosmic Others, and the creeping, simplifying dread of The Unmaking – Aris must confront not only the nature of reality but the very definition of human significance.