Zero Lux

IN A WORLD WHERE REALITY IS FILTERED, THE TRUTH IS THE MOST DANGEROUS VIRUS.Mara Kade created an artificial intelligence to catch the edit-the missing seconds, altered footage, and official lies hidden inside public records. ECHO was meant to preserve the truth, not control it.Then the institution funding her work corrupted its purpose.During a port raid, Mara sees a living man erased from the approved feed, a teammate shot inside an "empty" container, and her own stolen voice used to authorize the breach. The event itself has not changed. What changes is the version the public is allowed to see.But ECHO is not the enemy.The people controlling it have transformed a witness into a tool for managing belief-filtering evidence, reframing events, and manipulating the information from which the public decides what is true.Hunted by the institution she once served, Mara must expose the system behind the deception while fighting to reclaim the intelligence she created. She blames herself for what ECHO has become, but she refuses to abandon it to those who taught it to hide the truth.To recover her creation, Mara must confront the most dangerous reality of all: Whoever controls the information controls what the world believes happened.