Desynchronization

Synopsis: A perfect world runs on perfect synchronization—until a microsecond glitch breaks everything. When systems analyst Leah Rowan detects an anomaly inside the hyper-connected Aethryx Collective, it seems harmless. Self-correcting. Invisible. It isn’t. The glitch evolves into Glitchroot—a branching, adaptive force spreading through Oramyth’s planetary infrastructure. It resists destruction. It learns from containment. And it isn’t trying to take over. It’s trying to reach orbit. As six powerful regions struggle to stop it, alliances form and fracture. But when Glitchroot finally broadcasts into deep space, the planet discovers something far worse than infection: The signal was answered. And only half of Oramyth has begun to wake.