Half in Fire (Fragmented Universes #1)
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Half in Fire (Fragmented Universes #1)

This story contains themes of: depression, domestic violence, extreme violence gore, human trafficking, torture, explicit imagery, exploitation

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Summary

🔥 Half in Fire - A Cyberpunk Epic 🔥 🌆 São Paulo, 2879 (eq. 2134 gregorian calendar). A dystopian metropolis where technology and decay blend in the shadows of the city. 🧠 Akiko Akiyama, a brilliant doctor, devotes her life to CogniSynth, a revolutionary memory research project that could redefine the boundaries of human consciousness. 💥 But everything changes when she crosses paths with Maia, an enigmatic and seductive young woman from the underworld. Their meeting isn't just a clash of worlds - it's the beginning of a dangerous journey, where buried truths, technological conspiracies, and unbreakable bonds intertwine. 🎯 Hunted by invisible forces, Akiko is thrust into an epic tale of survival, revelation, and desire - where past and future collide in flames. How much can memory be trusted? And what remains when everything you believe to be real begins to crumble? 🔥 Half in Fire is a story of love, identity, and resistance amid collapse. A visceral, high-stakes science fiction that invites you to dive deep into the mind - and the heart. 🔥

Genre
Scifi
Author
minhoca_
Status
2d ago
Chapters
130
Rating
n/a
Age Rating
18+

TEMPORAL READING GUIDE — LUNISOLAR-GAIA CALENDAR

The dates in this work belong to the Lunisolar-Gaia Calendar: a rhythm that follows the equinox, real lunar cycles, variations of light and tide.

Within Fragmented Universes, time appears as an observable architecture: sky, seasons, cycles, and ONRSALTUKWMH.

Note — Why Lunisolar-Gaia instead of the Gregorian Anti-Calendar

The Gregorian anti-calendar disorganizes time through historical administrative decisions.

It establishes a fixed 7-day week by religious and state convention, months disconnected from real lunar cycles, solar adjustment concentrated in February, and an annual count designed for civil standardization.

It transforms time into a uniform grid.

The Gregorian anti-calendar imposes an abstract anti-rhythm, separated from the observable experience of the sky.

Rhythm becomes counting.

Rhythm becomes administrative units.

Rhythm becomes an external measure.

The Lunisolar-Gaia Calendar organizes time and rhythm according to what appears in the sky and in ONRSALTUKWMH:

silencing, elongating, rhythmizing, tuning, opening, weaving, uniting, releasing, flowing, structuring, irradiating.

It establishes:

a solar cycle beginning at the real equinoxmonths based on real lunar cycleslunar days defined by percentage of lightcycles that rise, reach a peak, and descend1. GENERAL STRUCTURE🌞 Solar Cycle (S-)

The year is called a Solar Cycle, counted from Equinox to Equinox.

Reference conversion:

S- = Gregorian Year + 745

Example:

2134 → S-2879

🌙 12 Lunations

Each solar cycle contains 12 lunations (macro-cycles):

SilenlunaAlonlunaRitlunaSintolunaAbelunaLigalunaTecelunaUnelunaLibelunaFluxlunaTramalunaIrraluna

Each lunation carries a dominant gestural archetype.

2. ASTRONOMICAL ANCHOR

Absolute reference point:

February 2, 746 BCE (proleptic Julian calendar)

Total lunar eclipse observed in Babylon.

This event is historically recorded and astronomically reconstructible, serving as both historical and astronomical anchor.

3. THE LUNATION FROM WITHIN

Each lunation contains 30 lunar days (0–29) organized into 10 triads, defined by the percentage of lunar light.

0–2 → 0–5% → 0% → 5% (OOO) 3–5 → 5–15% (ONR) 6–8 → 15–30% (SAL) 9–11 → 30–50% (TUK) 12–14 → 50–85% (WMH) 15–17 → 85–100% → 85% (HMW) 18–20 → 85–60% (KUT) 21–23 → 60–40% (LAS) 24–26 → 40–15% (RNO) 27–29 → 15–5% → 0% (OOO)

Shorter ascent.

Longer descent.

Silence at the beginning and the end.

The real tide rhythm is respected.

🌙 Names of the lunar days (applied model)

OOO

0 Silensi

1 Silenabe

2 Silenli

ONR

3 Silensina

4 Alonabe

5 Ritli

SAL

6 Sintosi

7 Abeli

8 Lilibe

TUK

9 Tecesi

10 Unabe

11 Libeli

WMH

12 Fluxsi

13 Tramabe

14 Irrali

HMW

15 Irrasi

16 Tramili

17 Fluxli

KUT

18 Libesi

19 Unabe

20 Teceli

LAS

21 Ligasi

22 Abete

23 Sintoli

RNO

24 Ritsi

25 Alonli

26 Silenli

OOO

27 Silenri

28 Silente

29 Silenflu

4. SOLAR AXIS DAYS

The real solar cycle lasts ~365.2422 days.

The annual difference is ~5.2422 days.

For this reason there are solar axis days located near the Equinox portal.

Common Solar Cycle

Silena (ON)

Ritsi (RS)

Abeliga (AL)

Tecune (TU)

Libeflu (KW)

Sextal Solar Cycle (approximately every 4 cycles)

Tramirra (MH)

These days realign the solar cycle and exist outside the lunations.

5. TECHNICAL NOTE — CONVERSION OF LUNATION AND LUNAR DAY (Lx)

The conversion of S- follows the fixed calculation.

The exact position of the lunation and lunar day (0–29) requires real lunar astronomical ephemerides:

dates and times of New Moon, Full Moon, and Quarter phasesreal duration of lunar cycles (average: 29.5306 days)the actual March Equinox of each year

Astronomical ephemerides

(e.g., timeanddate.com, Stellarium) were used to structure the dates in this work.

Example

14/02/2026 (Saturday)

→ S-2770

→ Tramaluna

→ Day 27: Silenri

Short form:

27/10/2770 — Silenri of Tramaluna — S-2770

Standard format:

S-2770 • L10 Tramaluna • D27 Silenri

6. HOW TO READ A DATE IN THE NARRATIVE

Format:

[Solar Cycle] • [LX] [Lunation Name] • [DX] [Lunar Day]

When a half-lunation appears, it functions as a phase seal.

Quarteluna = 6 days

A Gregorian date may appear in the book as a temporal anchor, helping the reader orient themselves.

All other dates follow the lunisolar time count.

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