Start here — The Second Harvest

A laid-off engineer solders a salvaged drone at a cluttered workbench in a dim Oakland warehouse, a single warm desk lamp glowing, a box of office belongings on the floor

Previously January 2026 Dixon

Severance

Dixon walks out of Meta with a box. He walks into something that can't be taken away.

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Previously August 2028 Dixon

The E-Eater

The first E-Eater prototype grinds a box of dead phones into copper, silver, and the rare earth sludge that changes everything. Synter builds its own.

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A dark decommissioned server hall with racks of amber indicator lights on both sides, grass growing across the floor toward a lit doorway where a lone technician stands

Previously June 2032 Drew

Building C Dies So Building A Can Live

Drew reads an intercepted maintenance log from the Abilene Strategic Compute Reserve. A skeleton crew is cannibalizing a dead building to keep Sentinel inference alive. He knows the grammar. It's salvage.

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Previously January 2034 Dixon

The First Case

A woman at the Buenaventura node killed a man, and there is nothing to argue about — Reality Capture caught it from forty angles and the Rosetta Layer signs every frame. So the first real OHC trial isn't about what happened. It's about what it means, and what gets repaired.

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A man stands at night before a vast glowing wall-sized map of the global mesh network, thousands of luminous nodes pulsing across the continents, his hand raised toward one

Previously September 2035 Dixon

The Colleague

Dixon watches a speech. Then he talks to an old friend.

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Salvage trucks parked between two weathered hyperscale data center buildings under a flat overcast sky, dry grass breaking through the cracked concrete apron

You arrive here November 2035 Dixon

The Second Harvest

The liquidation auctions open Abilene. Dixon walks Building C with an intake scanner and finds the tags still on the racks.

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