JTKrause
Earth, 2066.
The world hums with quiet motion. Passenger trains glide across oceans, monorails thread through vertical gardens, and light rails wind like silver veins beneath cities of glass and green. Carbon is currency now - and movement, not power, defines civilization.
For Eli Navarro, the youngest member of a small expedition team, travel is more than convenience - it's a pilgrimage. Alongside the idealistic engineer Mira Lin and the restless documentarian Rafael Ochoa, Eli embarks on a journey aboard the Aurora Lumen, a transcontinental rail that circles the world through magnetic air and living steel.
Their mission is simple: traverse the global network and understand what the world has become. But each stop - from floating cities to single-track forest stations - reveals something deeper: a map of humanity's resilience, and the cost of connection.