Prologue Narrative

Date: April 3, 2530

Overview:
Humanity was never meant to endure. For decades, the cracks deepened
—civil unrest tore through cities swollen with desperation,
economies crumbled under the weight of unchecked greed, and
democracy withered as corruption took root. By 2530, the breaking
point arrived. The people, exhausted by hollow promises and stolen
lives, rose in defiance, their rage a wildfire against the dying
order. But the governments, bloated with power, did not yield—they
hardened, casting aside fragile pretences to embrace dictatorship.
The Resource Wars erupted: a raw, unrelenting struggle between those
who ruled and those who resisted. Mechanized war machines levelled
entire districts, elite soldiers enforced silence with plasma and
steel, and drones painted the skies with trails of destruction. Each
stronghold razed by the regimes birthed a thousand more rebels—worn,
fierce, their hope forged in the crucible of loss.

Nova Cascadia stands as a testament to this collapse. Once a

thriving port on the Western Territories’ edge, it is now a scarred
battlefield—refineries spew dark plumes into a blood-red sky, slums
sprawl in the shadows of fortified spires, and the air trembles with
the distant thud of war. Beneath this chaos, the Circuit Breakers
operate—Elias and Mara, Adrian’s parents, lead a clandestine faction
that fights not with weapons, but with intellect. They cripple power
grids, drain regime resources, and expose atrocities to a world
teetering on the edge. They are the resistance’s unseen strength—
until the night their light is extinguished, setting Adrian’s dark
journey into motion.

Act 1: The Making of a Monster

Date: April 3, 2530
Overview:
Elias and Mara, the Circuit Breakers’ masterminds, have wounded the
Western Territories’ regime for years—blacking out elite sectors,
funnelling funds to rebels, and leaking mass executions to spark
fury. On this night, as war thunders above Nova Cascadia, Mara gives
birth to Adrian in a bunker beneath their Underdistrict hideout—a
faint cry lost in artillery’s roar. Their evasion ends when Alan
Vance, a rising regime soldier, tracks them down. They hoped to
protect their son; that hope dies swiftly.

Alan, 34, is a soldier of order—scarred, resolute, believing the

regimes are Earth’s last stand against anarchy. Rebels are a plague
to him, and he’ll eradicate them. His elite team—five nano suit
operatives with pulse rifles—storms the hideout at midnight. Mara
uploads a final file—Triton’s coordinates—as the door splinters.
Elias reaches for a pistol, too slow. Two shots: Mara’s chest,
Elias’s skull. Her last breath whispers an encryption key— “7-1-9-2-
4-3.” His last look fixes on the closet hiding Adrian.

Alan finds Adrian—hours old, peering through the crack. Protocol

says kill; Alan hesitates, doubt flickering. He lifts the child,
voice low: “You’re mine now,” and leaves the burning ruin, cradling
him as it collapses. The Circuit Breakers fade, but their encoded
secret endures.

Act 2: Adrian, the Experiment

Date: 2548-2550
Overview:
Eighteen years of war grind on—rebels use Elias and Mara’s data to
fight, but regimes tighten control. Alan, now a colonel, raises
Adrian in Fort Cerberus alongside Rae, another orphan under his
wing. They grow as near-siblings, fed lies: “Rebels took your
families. I gave you purpose.” At 18, Adrian’s a soldier, Rae a data
analyst; at 20, Adrian joins the Nanite Initiative—Alan’s project,
born from scavenged rebel tech refined with regime innovation. “Make
me a weapon,” he demands, seeking purpose.

The nanites are synthetic nanoscale bots, forged using next-

generation nanotechnology and superheavy metals—elements like
Oganesson, harvested from deep-space reserves. Billions flood his
veins, engineered to bond with flesh and bone, rewriting his biology
with ruthless precision. Morphosis emerges: Human Mode for
precision, Terrestrial for speed, Airborne for flight, Ares for
destruction. Emotions dissolve into cold clarity, leaving a buried
rage he can’t name. His HUD flares: “ARES PROTOCOL ACTIVE.” Adrian
fades; Ares rises—a god sculpted by his parents’ killer, as Rae
watches, loyal to Alan.

Act 3: The War That Ended Everything

Date: 2551-2553
Overview:
Ares unleashes ruin at 23, sweeping Earth’s wreckage—glass deserts,
drowned coasts, skeletal cities. Terrestrial Mode breaches defenses,
Airborne rains death, Ares Mode silences all. The resistance—his
parents’ legacy—crumbles: Nova Cascadia’s Underdistrict burns,
Eastern Fringe’s Glass Spires shatter, Arctic strongholds melt.
Leaders die in chains, defiance extinguished. By 2553, the war ends—
Earth bows to Alan’s regime, a world of ash and order.
Adrian stands in the debris, voice dry: “War’s over. Guess I’m the
last one standing.” His parents’ dream lies crushed, a truth he
doesn’t see, while Rae, now an officer in Alan’s science corps,
oversees victory from Fort Cerberus.

Act 4: The Banishment to Triton

Date: October 12, 2553
Overview:
Alan, Supreme Regent, rules a subdued Earth, but Adrian’s power
haunts him. “He ended the rebellion in three years,” he murmurs in a
steel command chamber. “What’s to stop him from turning on me?” The
Triton Resonance Accelerator & Teleportation Nexus (TRATN)—a stalled
pre-war project on Neptune’s moon, recently stabilized—offers a
solution: a gateway or weapon.

Alan lies to Adrian: “Triton’s ready, Ares. Oversee its completion—

our future rests on it.” Adrian, restless, nods: “Beats rotting
here.” He teleports alone from Fort Cerberus to Triton’s icy crust.
Alan cuts the link, smirking: “Stay there, monster.” Exile begins,
masked as duty.

Act 5: Betrayal & Isolation

Date: October 13, 2553 – October 15, 2558
Overview:

 The Overseer’s Task (2553-2555)

Adrian lands on Triton—-235°C, nitrogen ice plains, TRATN a
frostbitten steel sprawl. He oversees the accelerator’s final
phase, commanding a sparse crew—scientists, drones, bots—for
two years. Cryovolcanoes erupt, gravity rifts warp halls, but
he stabilizes the Oganesson Flux Fusion Reactor. By 2555,
TRATN hums—rings pulsing, a superluminal bridge ready. “It’s
done,” he says, voice flat. “Now what?” Alan’s silence follows
—comms die, crew vanishes, leaving him alone. “Guess I’m the
only one who didn’t get the memo,” he mutters.

 The Undercover Revelation (2555)

Alan assigns Adrian and Rae an undercover mission: infiltrate
a resistance archive in the Eastern Fringe—a crumbling vault
once held by the Circuit Breakers. Posing as defectors, they
breach it in late 2555, seeking regime intel. Rae finds a
terminal, unlocks Elias and Mara’s file with “7-1-9-2-4-3.”
Truth spills: Adrian’s parents, murdered by Alan; Adrian,
stolen and remade; Triton, a prison-weapon. “You’re their
son,” she whispers, guilt crashing as Adrian snaps, “What the
 hell does that mean?” Regime troops move in, cutting their
discovery short.

 Rae’s Betrayal and Capture (2556)

Rae wrestles with the truth for months. In 2556, she returns
to Triton alone—using her clearance—carrying a quantum drive
with Adrian’s full memory, extracted earlier by Alan’s techs.
She confronts Adrian in TRATN’s core, still active. “You need
to know,” she says, but Alan’s troops—standard soldiers under
her command—storm in, alerted by her jump. Adrian fights—
Terrestrial Mode tearing through—but Rae splits the drive into
16 fragments: 7 for Hades (Triton), 9 for Eden (Earth),
scattering the Hades pieces across TRATN. “Find them!” she
shouts, tossing the last as soldiers seize her. Adrian lunges,
a pulse blast drops him—energy low, HUD glitching. Rae’s
dragged off with the 9 Eden fragments, eyes on his: “I’m
sorry…” She’s teleported to Earth, fate darkening—
reprogramming or death. Alan’s voice crackles: “You’re done,
Ares.”

 The Memory Wipe and Stasis (2556)

Alan orders Adrian subdued—synthetic nanoscale bots surge,
extracting his memories into the drive’s backup matrix, wiping
him clean. He’s left a blank slate, a husk. Techs seal him in
a stasis pod—nanites shut down, frost creeping over—turning
exile into oblivion. The 7 Hades fragments remain scattered,
Rae’s final act. “A god erased,” Alan mutters, abandoning
Triton.

 The Long Stasis (2556-2558)

Adrian sleeps—pod frostbitten, TRATN decaying. Five years pass
—storms lash, cryobeasts prowl, rings dim. Alan rules Earth,
believing Adrian lost. The 7 fragments lie dormant.

 Awakening (October 15, 2558)

Adrian awakens—darkness, cold, pod cracking open in the
Cryogenic Containment Sector. HUD stutters— “SYSTEM REBOOT:
ARES ONLINE”—energy at 200, nanites sluggish. Shattered pods
loom, red lights pulse. Five years gone, betrayed by Alan,
abandoned by Rae. Rae’s voice crackles: “Find them… find me…”
He rises, sharp: “Slept through the end of the world, huh?
Figures.” Seven fragments await on Triton—nine beyond—his
past, truth, vengeance. Chapter 1 begins.

Locations
1. Nova Cascadia
 o Description: War-torn sprawl on the Western Territories’
edge—refineries spew smoke, slums fester under fortified
spires, air hums with conflict. Birthplace of Adrian,
site of Elias and Mara’s death.

o Role: Act 1’s crucible—where the Circuit Breakers fall,

setting the story in motion.

2. Fort Cerberus

o Description: Desert stronghold of steel and silence—

regime base, labs birthing the Nanite Initiative with
superheavy metals, Alan’s domain.

o Role: Act 2’s forge—Adrian and Rae grow here; Act 4’s
launch—Adrian teleports to Triton.

3. Eastern Fringe Archive

o Description: Crumbling resistance vault—rusted servers,

plasma-scarred walls, once a Circuit Breakers’ holdout.

o Role: Act 5’s turning point—Adrian and Rae uncover the

truth in 2555.

4. Triton – Resonance Accelerator & Teleportation Nexus (TRATN)

o Description: Frozen moon, -235°C, nitrogen ice plains,

TRATN a decaying steel sprawl—cryovolcanoes, gravity
rifts, scattered fragments, powered by Oganesson.

o Role: Act 4-5’s prison—Adrian’s exile, Rae’s betrayal,

his stasis and awakening in 2558.

Timeline
 2530 (April 3): Adrian born; Elias and Mara killed by Alan in
Nova Cascadia; Alan takes Adrian.

 2548-2550: Adrian raised in Fort Cerberus with Rae; joins

Nanite Initiative at 20, becomes Ares with synthetic nanoscale
bots.

 2551-2553: Ares ends the Resource Wars at 23; Earth submits to

Alan’s regime.

 2553 (October 12): Alan exiles Adrian to Triton to oversee

TRATN.

 2555: Adrian stabilizes TRATN; he and Rae infiltrate Eastern

Fringe Archive, uncover truth.
  2556: Rae returns to Triton, splits memory drive into 16
fragments, scatters 7; caught before Adrian; Adrian wiped and
put in stasis.

 2556-2558: Adrian in stasis; TRATN decays; Alan rules Earth.

 2558 (October 15): Adrian awakens on Triton, begins Chapter 1:

Hades.

Triton Resonance Accelerator & Teleportation Nexus

(TRATN): Station and Environment
1. The Vision Behind the Facility
The Triton Resonance Accelerator & Teleportation Nexus (TRATN)
embodies humanity’s zenith of scientific mastery—a fortress of
precision where the universe’s most exotic forces are tamed with
absolute control. Conceived in the pre-war era (circa 2510s), it was
designed to harness matter, energy, and spacetime with zero
tolerance for failure. Every process is governed by physics so
thoroughly understood that outcomes are mathematically deterministic
—malfunctions are impossible, accidents a relic of lesser minds. The
station’s dual purpose: a near-infinite energy source via
superluminal matter and an instantaneous transport hub to bridge
Earth and the stars. Its creators envisioned a future where humanity
transcends resource scarcity and distance, but the Resource Wars
derailed that dream, leaving TRATN a regime tool—and later, Adrian’s
prison.

2. The Structure of the Facility

Spanning a vast triangular expanse beneath Triton’s icy crust, TRATN
is a marvel of engineering—a 15 km-wide complex anchored by three
substations feeding into a central dual-ring particle accelerator.
Built into a subsurface cavern carved by pre-war mining drones, its
architecture blends brutalist steel with cryogenic alloys, designed
to withstand Triton’s -235°C cold and seismic tremors from
cryovolcanoes. The station’s layout ensures redundancy and
precision, with each substation interdependent yet capable of
isolated operation.

 The Three Substations & Their Roles:

1. Oganesson Flux Fusion Reactor

 Function: The station’s beating heart, this reactor

fuses superheavy elements—primarily Oganesson (Og,
atomic number 118)—in a continuous cycle until pair
 annihilation occurs, converting mass into energy
with flawless efficiency.

 Mechanics: Encased in a 50-meter-thick shell of

hyperdense lead-tungsten alloy, it sustains a
reaction yielding over 10³⁰ joules per cycle.
Cryogenic superconductors, cooled to near 0 Kelvin
by liquid nitrogen piped from Triton’s surface,
power the reactor’s hypermagnetism arrays—magnetic
fields trillions of times stronger than a neutron
star, stabilizing the fusion process.

 Output: Supplies energy for the accelerator,

substations, and station-wide systems, including
life support and teleportation hubs.

2. Twin Hypercapacitor Arrays

 Function: These twin substations store and release

exponential energy bursts to propel particles to
relativistic speeds in the accelerator ring. One
array houses the Collider & Resonance Chamber,
where quantum effects are induced with surgical
precision.

 Mechanics: Each array is a towering lattice of

crystalline capacitors—built from rare lanthanides
and superheavy metals like UranoPlutonite (U₂Po₃²⁻)
—capable of holding and discharging energy in
nanosecond pulses. The Collider Chamber, a
spherical vault lined with quantum-interference
panels, tunes particle resonance to amplify
acceleration. Redundant cooling systems vent excess
heat into Triton’s ice, forming subsurface vapor
plumes.

3. Central Control & Teleportation Hub

 Function: The third substation oversees station

operations and houses the teleportation nexus—a
platform syncing with the accelerator to transport
matter faster than light.

 Mechanics: A domed command center with holographic

interfaces and quantum processors manages the
station’s deterministic systems. The teleportation
hub, a 100-meter-wide disc of reinforced cryosteel,
channels tachyonic matter streams for instantaneous
jumps—Earth to Triton in a blink. Backup power from
the reactor ensures uninterrupted control.
  The Dual-Ring Accelerator:

o Design: A 15 km-wide pair of concentric rings buried 500

meters below Triton’s surface, constructed from
hyperconducting alloys and lined with magnetic coils. The
outer ring accelerates particles; the inner ring refines
resonance and extracts energy.

o Scale: Each ring is 200 meters thick, reinforced to

endure the stresses of superluminal transitions, with
service tunnels and maintenance bots ensuring operational
integrity.

3. The Accelerator: Pushing the Boundaries of Physics

The Triton Dual-Ring Accelerator redefines particle physics,
surpassing traditional colliders by controlling every variable—
acceleration, resonance, collision—with near-perfect accuracy. It’s
the key to both its energy surplus and teleportation capabilities,
leveraging superheavy metals and quantum precision.

 Step 1: Quantum Superconductivity at 0K

o Hyperconducting magnetic fields—reaching ~10¹⁵ Tesla,

rivaling theoretical limits—are generated by
superconductors cooled to absolute zero (0 Kelvin) using
Triton’s abundant nitrogen ice. These fields form a
magnetic well, suspending particles in perfect synchrony
with zero energy loss, a feat made possible by the
station’s deterministic design.

 Step 2: Lanthanide Plasma Acceleration

o Pellets of UranoPlutonite (U₂Po₃²⁻), synthesized from

superheavy elements mined in deep space, are injected
into the outer ring. A plasma state is induced via laser
ablation, and the particles are accelerated by precise
angular frequency tuning—resonance aligning them to climb
toward light speed exponentially.

 Step 3: Reaching the Superluminal Transition

o As particles near the speed of light, relativistic mass

spikes (per Einstein’s E=mc²), demanding vast energy. The
Twin Hypercapacitors unleash timed bursts, synchronized
with the magnetic fields’ escalation to ~10¹⁵ Tesla. At
the tipping point, particles undergo a quantum phase
shift into tachyonic states—moving faster than light—
enabled by the Collider & Resonance Chamber’s extreme
conditions.

 Step 4: Energy Extraction from Superluminal Matter

 o Tachyons produce an energy surplus (Q ≈ 10¹⁰⁰), dwarfing
input costs. Quantum-interference batteries—arrayed along
the inner ring—harvest this surplus without destabilizing
the tachyonic field, channeling it into station systems
or teleportation streams. The result: a sustainable,
near-infinite energy source, mathematically assured.

4. The Triton Environment

 Surface: Triton, Neptune’s largest moon, is a frozen wasteland
4.5 billion km from Earth—-235°C, nitrogen ice plains
stretching to a jagged horizon, pocked by cryovolcanoes
spewing methane and ammonia plumes. Its thin atmosphere (0.01%
Earth’s pressure) glows faintly under Neptune’s teal light,
casting long, eerie shadows. Seismic tremors ripple from
tectonic stress, a constant low rumble.

 Subsurface: TRATN lies in a cavern 500 meters deep, carved

into Triton’s icy mantle by pre-war drones. The cavern’s walls
shimmer with nitrogen frost, fractured by ancient impacts.
Cryobeasts—silicon-based scavengers adapted to the cold—prowl
the edges, gnawing at exposed conduits.

 State Over Time:

o 2553 (Adrian’s Arrival): Fully operational—rings hum,

substations glow with cryogenic blue, air recyclers hum
softly. Crew quarters are sparse but functional—cryosteel
bunks, nutrient dispensers.

o 2556 (Rae’s Betrayal): Still active but strained—

abandoned crew leaves dust on controls, minor ice
fractures creep into outer walls from neglect.

o 2558 (Awakening): Decayed—storms have battered surface

conduits, cryobeasts have breached outer sectors, rings
flicker dimly. The Cryogenic Containment Sector, where
Adrian wakes, is a graveyard of shattered pods, red
emergency lights pulsing through frost.