The Cycle

When the sky burns, survival is no longer human.

Caught between the tyrannical meat-grinder of King Stan's 1st Equal and the unstoppable, thousand-meter mechanical Giants of the 1st Republic, the surface of the world has been reduced to irradiated ash. Now, an engineered sub-micron aerosol known as Red Rain is thirty days away from saturating the atmosphere and dissolving human lungs on contact.

Deep inside a subterranean sanctuary, a fractured band of survivors races to assemble an escape ship out of salvaged lunar metal. But escaping a doomed continent requires impossible science, cybernetic metamorphosis, and shedding organic fragility to outrun the coming fire.

Yet the greatest threat does not fall from orbit:

• Iter, a battle-scarred sentinel governed by ruthless logic, will crush anyone-and anything-that threatens the women under his protection.

• Sam, a hollowed-out survivor grieving the loss of his soulmate, carries a mysterious mechanical wristwatch capable of warping linear spacetime.

• Sena, the Iron Queen of the Moon, hijacks an unshielded interceptor and plunges through atmospheric plasma to reunite with Promise, the girl she crossed the stars to save.

When an anomalous kinetic strike cleaves the bunker in two, the survivors are forced to turn their crude chronal cuffs. To outrun extinction, they must pay for time with their own lives, tearing reality open into a fractured war across the centuries.

Some debts are written in blood. Some vows refuse to die even when the universe collapses.

Step into the fallout. The countdown to extinction has begun.