TarotScope of the Day

The Archivists of Continuum would later argue about when the Age truly ended. Some would point to the fracture in the Sky Ledger, others to the sudden silence of the Oracles. Most agreed, however, that the shift announced itself quietly, during what the common people later called « the pivot week. » Continue reading …

This mission had begun six weeks earlier, when the Helios worlds requested assistance not with weapons or resources, but with something far harder to grant. They wanted help redesigning their civilisation. Their technologies had outpaced their ethics. Their ambitions had outgrown their agreements. They stood on the brink of progress or collapse, and no one could agree which. The Aurora Vector had been dispatched not as a solution, but as a mirror. Continue reading …

The city was called Axiom, and for three centuries it had mistaken force for order. Its towers were grown from algorithms, its laws written by committees that had never touched the ground, its citizens managed by incentives and fear in equal measure. Power moved downward like pressure, invisible yet absolute. People obeyed not because they believed, but because resistance was inefficient. Then the Veil began to thin. Read more …