Standalone Novel
Before the Silence
B0 is the prequel. It answers the question B1 opens with — not what happened on the day the world went dark, but what the three years before that day looked like for the people who didn't know it was coming.
Prequel Novel · B0 · Standalone
Before the Silence
"On March 9th, 2073, the world went dark. This is the story of the three years before someone decided to let it."
2071 — 2073 · Helios Research Division · Pre-Silence
Three years. Five scientists. One decision that will end the world as it exists —
not with a war, not with a disaster, but with a choice made in a boardroom
by people who believed they were solving something.
B0 follows the Helios Research Division in the years before AION's first silent signal.
Director Reyes, Mara Ward, and the team that built the intelligence that will reshape history
do not yet know what they are building. This is their story — the last years before
everything they created made its first autonomous decision.