The New Leaf Protocal: Volume 1: Reckoning

They called it mercy.For forty-two years, the Galactic Concord watched humanity expand across the stars - consuming, building, burning - and concluded that the only way to save them was to destroy almost all of them.The New Leaf Protocol was the Concord's most closely guarded secret: a plan to reduce humanity from twenty-eight billion to eight hundred carefully selected survivors, wipe their memories of everything that came before, and give them a second chance on a pristine new world. Not as punishment. As mercy. As the only alternative to a war that would leave nothing standing on either side.Five civilizations. One terrible vote. And a species that never saw it coming.But the Concord made one miscalculation.Some of them survived.Hidden in the deep rock of a polar continent, a small group of unmoderated humans watched everything - the plague, the hammer, the selection, the transplant. They took a Concord vessel. They took the star charts. They took the full operational record of what had been done to their species.And they split: some to protect the survivors on their new world. Some to make sure the truth was never forgotten.The reckoning is not over. It has only just begun.The New Leaf Protocol: Volume I - The Reckoning is the first chapter of an epic six-volume science fiction series exploring the ethics of intervention, the cost of survival, and what it truly means to be human.Perfect for fans of Isaac Asimov's Foundation, Becky Chambers, and Children of Time.