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<p>It's 2063, and the town along with much of the nation are in disarray. The decay started years before the Great Event. Our town still had hope thanks to the five families, who'd created a blockchain based water distribution system for the locals, a valuable secret hidden from the Global Water Commission and their network of mercenaries and contractors. Earlier in the mid-2040's, right after the state secessions of Idaho, Montana, and Texas, the Global Council of Water Commissioners made their deals and moved into towns throughout the country. They called it "the integration." The Commission and their contractors integrated with municipal water departments, using their organized network to invade like parasites on local services. It all coincided with the 29th Amendment to the United States Constitution, later referred to as the Regional Trident Plan.</p> <p>Nova is a story about survival, power structures, the turning of relationships, and the networking between people and the systems to which they belong. It's about A.I. blockchain possibility, and its potential for human betterment versus our detriment. It's about the question of whether or not we need to be saved from ourselves, and by who or what? The Great Event at the end of the first chapter might just be what actually saves us.</p> <p>The epilogue will take place in 2517. This scene is fully sketched and the full arc of the novel is set. I expect to finish Nova Interitus by summer of 2023.</p> <p>Obviously, this is NOT an anime tits and fun gamer comic strip fiction like the majority of writing here in RR. And some of that stuff is so creative and well-done; I've never known about some of these genres until recently. So I'm not dissing that stuff, I'm just saying most readers here might not find this type of realist hard sci-fi dystopian fiction very appealing. But I hope you do!</p> <p>This story is not something I planned to write. It all came to me in a dream and I haven't been able to stop writing it. This Royal Road posting is basically a beta test with chapters and drafts to get some feedback and see if there's any readership for this narrative. I will be posting a polished and further edited version on Substack with a podcast narration later this year.</p> <p>https://novainteritus.substack.com/</p>
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