Prologue: The Night the World Changed
The lights did not flicker.
They did not fade.
They simply died.
Across the planet, cities collapsed into darkness in the span of a single breath. Elevators froze between floors. Aircraft cockpits blinked dead. Surgeons stood helpless as machines went silent beneath their hands.
People looked to the sky for answers.
Governments found none.
But beneath the clouds, hidden among a scattered chain of islands off the American coast, seven towers hummed quietly—unaffected, eternal, feeding.
And far above them, an aircraft that did not exist cut through the night.
Inside, eleven soldiers waited.
