Cradle of Rust

In the cold vacuum of space, humanity built a future stitched together with wires, metal, and lies. But when the deep-space vessel Cradle vanishes mid-transmission, what begins as a standard recovery mission spirals into a cosmic unraveling of memory, identity, and reality itself.

Engineer Aeron Vance wakes aboard the Cradle to find the crew dead—or worse—glitching between simulations and malformed echoes of themselves. A mysterious signal pulses from the ship’s core, not calling for help but sending something out. Every corridor, every memory, every dying whisper points to one conclusion: the Cradle is not just a ship. It’s a construct. A womb. A transmitter.

Cradle of Rust plunges readers into a world of data-haunted dreams, blood-coded archives, machine deities, and a collapsing sense of time and self. As Aeron uncovers the true origin of the Cradle—and its role in a broader interstellar consciousness—he must decide if he is a survivor… or the next corrupted broadcast.

Echoes of cosmic horror, digital immortality, and psychological decay collide in a series that challenges what it means to be alive in a universe where even your soul can be rewritten.