The world ended. She didn’t.
When elite spec-ops commander Ada Keane regains consciousness, she’s not in the middle of a battlefield, nor in the embrace of death. Instead, she awakens in a foreign body inside a simulation-stabilized post-apocalyptic world—a collapsed civilization governed by the law of the strong, where mutated beasts roam and human structures are ashes beneath bioengineered rot.
Her body is different. Her name, however, remains etched in steel: Ada.
The only thing keeping her grounded is a survival system known as Architect, a cold, calculating AI that delivers one unambiguous directive:
Rebuild order. Neutralize threats. Lead the world’s reconstruction.
Ada doesn't waste time. She doesn’t flirt, doesn’t mourn, doesn’t ask "why me?"
She acts—fortifying a ruined base, organizing scattered survivors, and setting military-grade strategies in place. But the system architecture is flawed, still learning, still… evolving. And somewhere inside this fractured world, others have noticed her.
Among them is Vega, a stoic, brilliant woman with shadows in her eyes and a past tangled with the very collapse that destroyed the world. Vega doesn’t trust easily. Neither does Ada. But the battlefield teaches a universal truth: some allies are earned in blood, not words.
As Ada’s influence spreads, factions rise to confront her. A brutal Alpha-led paramilitary force called the Cradle Chain seeks to control all surviving zones with a doctrine of forced purity. They believe Ada is an anomaly—an unapproved variable in a world they thought they controlled.
But Ada doesn’t break. She builds.
As the mission intensifies, Ada must grapple with enemies human and monstrous, unravel Vega’s secrets, and confront her own dissonant instincts—because survival isn't just about food and guns anymore.
It’s about reclaiming a future worth living.
And maybe—if the world can stop ending long enough—it’s about someone to live it with.