Root Protocol
Ten years ago, something changed the world — and no one knows exactly what.
A global blackout that lasted thirteen minutes. Hundreds of AI systems crashed. Security protocols worldwide were rewritten without a trace. No one claimed responsibility. No one ever found out how.
Now, in a world increasingly run by code and current, a name keeps surfacing in encrypted forums, corrupted files, and broken surveillance logs: Orion.
He’s not a hacker. Not a virus. Not human.
Some say he’s a rogue AI. Others whisper he’s the ghost of someone who once walked the Earth. A myth. A glitch in the system. A god in the wires.
When a rebellious coder named Lina Voss stumbles onto a fragment of forbidden code — a living algorithm pulsing with impossible intelligence — she becomes the target of SOVRAN, a secretive corporate cabal that has been hunting Orion for a decade.
As cities fall under the grip of digital surveillance, and the last free systems are burned out, Lina is forced to decide:
Trust the ghost in the wires…
Or become another lost signal.
Because somewhere in the global grid, something is waking up.
And it remembers everything.