In the year 2050, the United Americas tear themselves apart in a war no one can agree how began-and no one will ever agree how it should have ended. A single shot in the heat-choked streets of Dallas shatters a fragile ceasefire, and from that moment forward, the continent fractures into two rival nations: the Republic States of America and the Democratic States of America. Each claims to be the last true inheritor of freedom, unity, and truth. Cities burn. Borders harden. History is written in ash. One hundred and thirty years later, students from both sides gather for a final attempt at reconciliation. Instead of peace, they inherit something far older: grief passed down as doctrine, memory sharpened into weaponry, and myths treated as fact. The debate collapses into violence, proving what time has already suggested-the war never truly ended. It only learned how to speak through memory. Fifteen centuries after the first shot, humanity lives among the moons of the outer planets, far from the scorched soil of Earth. Ceal Vincent Williams, descendant of the man who stood at the center of the fracture, is a historian on Titan, raised on curated records and half-buried truths. When a forbidden archive resurfaces-evidence of a secret genetic experiment meant to forcibly erase ideological division and engineer unity-Ceal discovers that the past was not merely remembered. It was manipulated. As war is revisited through blood-soaked battlefields, shattered cities, desperate medics, and ordinary people refusing to let their humanity die, Ceal is forced to confront a question that has haunted his bloodline for over a millennium: Was the fracture inevitable... Or was it designed? And if unity can be manufactured- is it still unity at all? The Dust Remembers is a generational science-fiction epic about civil war, inherited myth, historical erasure, and the terrifying possibility that healing the world may require changing what it means to be human.