Under a Silent Sky

The grid is dead. The sky is empty. And beneath the mountain, the architects of the new world are waiting.

Three years after the AI Wars left global infrastructure in ruins, a synthetic plague swept away the remaining cities. Seven months later, pilot John Miller and his pointer, Jack, patrol the silent Appalachian ridges in a 1978 Cessna 180-one of the few mechanical aircraft left untouched by the collapse.

Hiding out at a hidden airstrip with a small circle of survivors, John and nineteen...