Ratification: The Second Bailout

By H.B. Rattinger

On the brink of a Second Bailout - in a civilization where truth is prepaid and sealed on the timechain - the Fermi paradox has been solved.

Vaxzor, a genetically engineered rat, is sent to command a fleet tasked with breaking humanity out of its cosmic zoo. Centuries later, Myla, a low-level defense operator, stumbles upon a forbidden signal that could unravel everything she was trained to obey. Zorkal, a disgraced barrister drowning himself in regret, grasps at one last chance to matter.

Their fates collide across law, myth, and war - in a world built on collateral and consensus, where contracts are enforced by physics itself, belief is indistinguishable from protocol, and truth is only what the timechain agrees to ratify.

Blending hard science fiction and cypherpunk manifesto with a legal thriller's precision, Ratification asks what it costs to survive in a world of commodified truth.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FQPPP74H
• ISBN13: 9798264699665
• Release Date: September 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 8.0"