Story: As Above, So Below
Episode: 1 - The Eternity Loop Year: 12,743 AD The Elysian Dawn was a dying god. Its colossal hull, once gleaming under the light of a forgotten sun, now groaned under the weight of millennia. The great vessel drifted through the interstellar void, a floating tomb of steel and whispered prayers. Generations had lived and died within its labyrinthine corridors, their bones recycled into the hydroponic farms that fed the living. The ship was their universe, its creaking bulkheads the edges of reality. And Captain Elias Varen was its reluctant shepherd. The Ghosts of the Deep Decks Elias stood on the Observation Deck, his breath fogging the thick glass as he stared into the abyss. The stars here were different—cold, distant, strangers to the ones his ancestors had charted. Below him, in the bowels of the ship, the lower decks festered. The Forgotten lurked there, the unwanted children of failed population controls, their existence a heresy to...