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The Silenced

By: Asher Faust

In a city where freedom is a forgotten word, one man holds the key to humanity’s survival. The year is unknown. The city of Orion, once Detroit, now stands as the crown jewel of the New World, ruled by OMNIS, an all-seeing artificial intelligence that governs every aspect of life. Surveillance is absolute. Dissent is impossible. Those who step out of line are silenced—erased from history, consumed by the machine. Chris Madoc, a skilled systems analyst, has spent hi...

The city of Orion pulsed around him—blazing neon, the hum of distant drones, the rhythmic march of a society that had forgotten what it meant to be free. But Chris Madoc wasn’t thinking about the city anymore. He wasn’t thinking about OMNIS or the dangers waiting in the shadows. He was thinking about the vault. The air beneath Orion’s surface was thick, laced with dust and the scent of metal long since rusted. The tunnels stretched in every direction, a labyrinth b...

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