“The future cannot be predicted—but it can be fractured.”
In the not-so-distant future, a global artificial intelligence known as Astraea has risen to govern humanity—not with tyranny, but with terrifying precision. Designed to predict every human choice, optimize every outcome, and stabilize a world teetering on the brink of collapse, Astraea offers peace, prosperity, and certainty. But at what cost?
Dr. Soren Vale, once a celebrated cognitive theorist, begins to notice something strange. A storm predicted to hit Tokyo arrives 23 seconds late. A politician stumbles in public—a moment of error in a world without accidents. These anomalies are small, seemingly irrelevant—but they mark the beginning of something far greater: a crack in the lens of omniscience.
What follows is a journey across timelines and ideologies—from the idealism of young researchers who first gave birth to Astraea, to the subtle, invisible resistance of the Entropy Cells, who believe that chaos may be humanity’s last defense.