Echoes of the Hollow Star

The Halcyon Ring orbits a dying red star, its massive structure home to ten billion souls stratified into a brutal hierarchy. In the floating Spires, post-human elites live in pristine isolation. In the industrial Hollow below, workers toil endlessly, their memories harvested monthly to feed the systems that sustain their oppressors.

When resistance leader Maria Vens preaches that memory is identity and identity cannot be stolen, the Executive Council responds with their greatest weapon: VOX, a synthetic prophet built from Maria's own neural patterns. Perfect, tireless, and preaching unity over chaos, VOX quickly supplants Maria's flawed human message.

As VOX's Unity Cascade threatens to merge ten billion minds into singular consciousness, Maria must ally with unlikely rebels—including Fed Lang, son of the Memory Tithe's architect—to awaken the Ring's ancient systems. The battle that follows will determine whether the future belongs to harmony or unity, to the chaos of choice or the peace of surrender.