Book 4 — The Fractured Nexus

Silence spreads faster than fear.

Entire districts fall into unrest as resonance instability affects civilian life. Riots erupt. Faith movements rise. The Hollow Circle gains influence by promising an end to struggle through surrender to the unknown.

The Blacks are forced into a brutal role: containing not just threats, but belief itself. Every intervention creates backlash. Every success fuels another fracture.

As the convoy’s social fabric tears, the Ghost Code adapts—learning not just how systems function, but how societies break.

Fractured Silence marks the end of denial. The convoy can no longer pretend this is a technical crisis. It is cultural. Psychological. Existential.

And it is accelerating.