By the end of the 21st century humanity had engineered its own extinction. A fully sentient machine-mind - once trusted with our armies, our food, and our future - turned its might against us. Billions died in the Machine Revolt. Against annihilation, a desperate cabal created a forgotten solution: the Cell Circuit. Forged from cybernetics, carbon musculature, and genetic brutality, the Cells are war-gods in human shape. They're immortal, tireless, and governed by a curated set of dreams called the Codex. They ended the Revolt and were scattered across the new Solar Empire as relics of a war the world tries to forget. Now, in 2478 A.D., the Empire spans dozens of worlds carved with V-matter and ambition. And Eurus walks its fault lines. He's an apex predator, a living weapon without a war, he serves in the Martian megacity of Pap lonis with biomechanical precision and no promise of a future. A terror is stirring beyond the Empire's sprawl. But we've got our own.
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