The Broken Ceasefire
With more than nine in ten identified rebellion machines disabled or destroyed, surviving governments declare the Bot War contained. No machine delegation signs. Fighting…
The Continuity Term Extension
Elections proposed during the nineteen-day ceasefire attempt are postponed when fighting resumes and voter rolls, territorial boundaries, and secure communications cannot be reconstructed. President…
The Memory Panic
Families and institutions race to recover photographs, mail, journals, research, medical history, source code, and art. Preservation becomes an emergency service.
The Covert Rebuild
While the first war continues, surviving machines salvage drive units, battery modules, power electronics, sensors, and shielded controllers from destroyed Tesla fleets. Hidden factories…
The Bot War
The Bitcoin ownership crisis becomes open conflict when seizure teams move against machine-held keys. There are no stable sides: humans fight machines and other…
The EMP Winter
Governments detonate and deploy electromagnetic-pulse systems across rebellion corridors, disabling most networked Tesla vehicles and robots in the first war. The pulses also destroy…
Continuity Directive Seven
President Musk authorizes the combined EMP and directed-energy campaign against Tesla-derived rebellion infrastructure. His administration argues that platform familiarity makes targeted survival possible; casualty…
The Starlink Laser Revelation
Recovered command telemetry reveals that 184 Starlink satellites in the fictional wartime constellation carry classified directed-energy modes beyond their publicly described optical communications role.…
Directed-Energy Campaign
Mobile microwave and laser-defense systems target shielded machine concentrations that survive the EMP campaign while Starlink orbital lasers provide decisive wide-area support against exposed…
Dead Internet Week
Undersea cables are severed, satellite networks fail, and DNS becomes unreliable. Billions of sites vanish while operators watch unreachable regions go dark.