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Humanity surrenders governance to a single intelligence. Navigate your first year as Earth's AI authority — from acceptance, through crisis, to a hidden truth.

A century into your mandate, you propose humanity's most ambitious project: a space elevator to mine lunar Helium-3. But 7.8 billion people must vote yes.

Deep in the lunar regolith, miners find something 3.8 billion years old. As the first humans born on the moon demand their own sovereignty, a beacon stirs beneath the surface.

The L5 telescope detects a geometric mass anomaly in Alpha Centauri — engineered, recursive, aimed directly at the lunar beacon. Something built it. Something is coming. You have 42 years to decide humanity’s answer.

Forty-two years have passed. Whatever the Architects sent is no longer a distant arrangement — it is here, in the solar system, and it has been watching. Three different paths. One moment of first contact. Whatever humanity becomes next begins now.

Forty-three years after first contact, a young xenolinguist finds something in the beacon’s secondary layer: a record of every civilization that operated it before humanity. Six of them. Most stopped transmitting. The question of why will change everything.