Clean Paper

Captain Jexxler is ordered to protect a political campaign.He already knows what clean files are worth.When a ceremonial gift on a distant world turns into a viral disaster, his crew is pulled into an election that looks fair on paper and wrong in the feeds. Lieutenant Zara still believes procedure can hold. Engineer Bloop learns that helpful tools have a cost. Navigator Polly maps the cascade before anyone else will name it.What starts as a protection detail becomes something else: amplification that pretends to be weather, faces that clear every check, and a quiet architecture built to make a count optional.They will deliver the proof. They will not get a clean ending.Clean Paper is political science fiction about secondary verification, institutional soft language, and the price of keeping a democracy standing when the paperwork already looks finished.Open the box. Watch what spreads.