Carter and the Stockpile

The year is 2070. Deep beneath the desolate salt flats of Utah, the fully automated Dugway Defense National Stockpile guards America's most terrifying secret: the Equinox Relic. A crystalline artifact of unknown origin, the Relic holds a dual power that could instantly rewrite the global balance of power—granting its wielder absolute physical invincibility and instantaneous, telepathic control over every automated weapon, drone, and orbital strike platform in the United States military grid. For Carter, a rogue operative with a desperate mission and nothing left to lose, infiltrating the heavily fortified Sector Omega was supposed to be impossible. But when he successfully bypasses the AI-driven security matrix and closes his hand around the pulsing, absolute-zero stone, he triggers a countdown he cannot stop.