Golden Age
Book One of the Remediation Series
"They built the most ambitious machine in human history. Then they pointed it at the Sky. It missed and hit the moon."
In the age before the Shroud, the Resonator civilization lived under pale violet skies, spoke a language of pure mathematics, and built cities of managed light. Manu, Master Architect of Aethel-Sur, and Nehadru, the restless Flight Master of Aeris-Tor, are the two minds behind the Ark — a 15.5-trillion-ton colony ship designed to carry their species to the stars. But Nehadru's philosophy of "Soon" — of momentum over sequence — carries a cost no calculation anticipated. When the Ark falls, it takes the sky with it. The Shroud descends. The Great Language evaporates. And from the ruins, Manu builds a lie so necessary it becomes a religion.