Incursion Event
In the 22nd century, Earth is a memory, erased by the Infestation—an alien reality that rewrites physics and spawns legions of monstrous WIL-resonant Legions. Humanity’s last sanctuary is a single, domed supercontinent on Mars: Aresia.
Governed by the Silent Council, a martial synthesis of Earth’s last surviving powers, Aresia survives by one brutal rule: all Resonants—humans who can impose their Inner World’s laws upon reality—must be weaponized or eliminated. Control is survival. Loss of control is met with Eclipse Protocol, administered by sanctioned executioners.
Into this desperate world is born Avenger, a 15-year-old orphan whose awakening defies all understanding. In a final, loving instinct to protect his family during a catastrophic rock slide, his soul did not resonate with a simple concept. It reached for the absolute preservation of a perfect moment—and in doing so, accidentally touched the fundamental cosmic cycle of creation and annihilation.
His Inner World, an Unbinding Core is a paradox of memory and negation. A sun-drenched island of preserved happiness floats in a void, under a perpetual, beautiful rain of antimatter. Each drop that falls annihilates a piece of the void in a flash of violet light, a silent cycle of creation-through-destruction. Avenger’s power is [Antimatter Generation/Manipulation], not born from hatred, but from a love so desperate it sought to unmake any threat to what it cherished.
Classified S-Class (Singularity), Avenger is seen by the Silent Council as the ultimate dilemma: a catastrophic power of pure negation wielded by a psyche oriented toward preservation. He is placed under the tutelage of their most feared instrument: Executor Kaelen, an A-Class Resonant of [Decay]. Kaelen, whose power is the slow, certain unraveling of all things, is tasked with teaching the boy who controls instant, total un-creation. Their relationship is a brutal philosophical war: the teacher of controlled erosion versus the student of perfect annihilation.
As Avenger struggles with a power that literally destroys what it touches—and the guilt of having already used it to erase the ones he loved—Aresia faces an old threat. The Infestation is adapting to Mars. "Ghost Fluxes"—subtle, spreading zones of alien reality—begin to appear, challenging the dome's integrity and breeding new, stranger Legions.
Within the Silent Council, factions fracture. "The Preservationists" believe Avenger’s power can be refined into a surgical tool to permanently annihilate Infestation Cores, seeing in his inner world’s "preserved island" a symbol of hope. "The Eradicators" see only the "antimatter rain"—a power that could unmoor reality itself—and argue for pre-emptive Eclipse before he becomes a threat greater than the alien invasion.
Avenger’s journey is a climb from trauma toward transcendent precision. He must learn to wield the power of total annihilation not as a blunt force, but as a sculptor’s chisel—to erase a single diseased cell, to cancel the momentum of a falling starship, to become the guardian who protects by selectively destroying. Kaelen, in turn, must confront whether his philosophy of control-through-fear can chain a force that unmakes all chains, or if he must learn a harder lesson: how to mentor a living supernova.
On a red planet under a glass sky, a boy who holds a beautiful, annihilating world inside him and an executioner who masters decay must answer: In a universe where to create is to eventually destroy, can the power to annihilate everything become the ultimate means to preserve what remains?
This is the story of The Unbinding Core.
