Surviving the Destroyer

The Destroyer is not a monster. He is a mathematical error.

​Elias Thorne did what the billionaires promised to do. When the oceans rose and the crops failed, he didn't try to save humanity. He boarded a private starship, left the atmosphere, and watched the apocalypse from the safety of Mars Colony One.

​For three years, he has played God from the red planet, rationing Earth's remaining resources through a remote uplink and demanding worship in exchange for water.

​But down in the ruins of "New Miami," a mechanic named Marcus dares to do the unthinkable. He doesn't fight back. He doesn't beg. He cuts the feed.

​Silence falls between the worlds.

​On Earth, humanity begins the painful work of healing without its master.

On Mars, Elias Thorne sits in a golden room, surrounded by silence, slowly realizing that a King without subjects is just a man alone in the dark.

​Written as a series of clinical case files, Surviving the Destroyer dissects the psychology of ultimate greed-from the "Extinction Burst" of a narcissist losing control to the terrifying "Zero-Sum" logic of a man who believes that for him to win, everyone else must lose.
​We thought the danger ended when he left.
We were wrong.

The Destroyer is patient, and he has been waiting forty years to deliver his final verdict.