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Ongoing, First published Sep 18, 2025
In the year 2342, humanity's colonization of the solar system has attracted the attention of an advanced alien race, the Lumina, who are set to arrive in twenty-eight years. Facing overwhelming odds, humanity initiates Project Chimera, a desperate plan to create a system-wide camouflage using gravitational lensing. General Aris Thorne leads this monumental effort, assembling a corps of brilliant minds and mobilizing the entire human population.

However, on the volatile moon of Io, an Everyman engineer named Jax stumbles upon evidence of sabotage targeting critical W State Transformers, the very technology enabling their invisibility. This discovery thrusts Jax into a dangerous game of cat and mouse, potentially exposing humanity's existence and jeopardizing the success of Project Chimera. The endgame hinges on whether humanity can maintain its illusion of invisibility against both external threats and internal betrayal, or if their audacious bid for survival will lead to their ultimate extinction.
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