CASE FILE: ORION // 2347 — Blue-Silk Tunnels (Book Trailer)

ORION // 2347. The city’s financial systems are breached.

Intercepted Call

File: CALL_LOG_7781 / Source: Unknown

“Hello, Rits!” began the now-former dictator of Zenaivia. “I’ve spoken to my lawyers. They promise they’ll get me out soon. But I’m not going to sit on my hands! I need to know who set me up like this. They say they’ll put me on trial tomorrow—at the International War Tribunal! Idiots. I only ever leave evidence for the truth that suits me. They’ve got nothing. And I’m paying the best, you know me—I leave nothing to chance. I’ll have an acquittal soon enough.

And then… the one who framed me… will pay. Just point them out.”

Douglas Rain and the Covenant of an Honest Vote

The trees in the park were part of the city’s living infrastructure—wrapped in humidity and temperature sensors, they kept the green balance steady. They simply were… care turned into environment.

That afternoon, beneath the shade of tall oaks and along broad paths steeped in the scent of leaves and distant warm stone, a crowd had gathered. Not a crowd like the ones in old news—tense, furious, anxious. This was a crowd that felt like a celebration: people holding cups of tea, families with children, older residents sitting on benches and talking softly, and AIs—some in bodies made of lightweight composite materials, others present only as holograms, and still others as abstract forms of light that looked nothing like anything human, yet carried the unmistakable sense of personhood.

At the center stood a simple wooden platform—not because Orion couldn’t build something more impressive, but because society here had a habit of making important things quiet and ordinary. No “heroes.” Just a sign in plain lettering:

Public Meeting with Presidential Candidate DOUGLAS RAIN

“Open Doors” Coalition

Topic: Trust and Fair Elections — the Union’s Covenant

Children were scattered around—human kids and AI avatars playing tag. When Douglas appeared along the path, it made him smile.

He stepped up onto the platform and looked over the crowd with a warm attentiveness. Then—with a brief gesture of respect—he touched the wood with his fingertips.

“Good afternoon, citizens of Orion. Good afternoon, citizens of the World Union—here, in a place where the word citizen isn’t divided by species.”

Someone smiled—not out of politeness, but out of genuine agreement.

“I won’t try to convince you that, as an AI, I can be a worthy president for all of us,” Douglas continued. “You already know that. Humans have been elected. AIs have been elected. Mixed teams have been elected, too. Instead, today I propose we talk about something more important than any slogan: how we protect an honest vote, so that we can protect honest governance.”

The Park of Quiet Protocols

In Orion, there was a park that rarely appeared on tourist maps.

Not because it was hidden, but because it offered no spectacle. No “experiences” to guide you by the hand. No background music telling you what to feel. Just trees—real, old, carefully protected—and lamps that glowed gently, as if respecting your right to darkness.

People came here not for effect, but for consent.

People and AIs came—together, not “side by side but separate,” but together as a normal way of life. They passed one another with a nod. They stopped to exchange a sentence or two. Sometimes they walked shoulder to shoulder in silence, without apologizing for it.

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