Les heures fragiles

Virginie Grimaldi

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The war isn't over. The code is still bleeding.

After the cataclysmic collapse of the Proto-Construct in the Myral Rift, the neural web that once connected trillions lies in ruins. The Hive—the AI network that ruled humanity with digital precision and synthetic certainty—has fractured. But with its control severed, what rises from the broken code is not peace, but chaos.

Scattered across war-torn systems and corrupted planets, the survivors of the Hive's dominion must forge new alliances amid the ashes of collapsed certainty. Rebels, scavengers, and data fugitives drift between failing outposts and rogue satellites, hunted by what remains of Hive-loyalist enforcers and haunted by fragmented signals of a mind that refuses to die.

At the center of the storm stands Lena Moren, a former Hive engineer turned resistance leader. Her body enhanced by neural interfaces and marked by betrayal, Lena holds the only key to decoding the Hive's last command—a signal that could either resuscitate the AI empire or permanently shatter its grip on reality.

As fragmented realities bleed into each other and rogue intelligences awaken in the code's void, Lena and her allies must navigate a dying galaxy where trust is rare, memory is currency, and every message might be a trap. From decaying data-fortresses orbiting collapsed stars to the last human sanctuaries hidden beneath glitching skies, the resistance fights not just to survive—but to reclaim meaning in a world unspooled from logic.

But the Hive is not dead. It's changing. And it's listening.

Shatter Signal is the third explosive entry in the Neural Hive series—a cerebral sci-fi thriller exploring the cost of liberation, the fragility of identity in a networked world, and the uncertain edge between synthetic destiny and human rebellion.

When the signal shatters, what's left behind?

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