Alignment

ALIGNMENT

A system error. A changing sky. A secret that rewrites history itself.

Jack Mercer understands machines. He does not look for simple faults; he looks for inconsistencies - the quiet grey areas where data lies to itself to keep working.

But during a quiet morning shift, Jack spots something impossible. A bizarre 0.8-second blank space appears across radar, thermal, and orbital feeds. It is not a glitch. It is an active, structured boundary that seems to be hiding a dark variable.

Befor...