The Lux Particle: Pilot
連載中We follow Max as our protagonist through a breakthrough moment in his community's desperate lux production alongside his mentor and friend Viktor. The Elektron Orthodoxy "Dox" are an aggressive fanatic organization that sees amber refinement as heresy. They willingly use raw amber to perform volatile magic as they believe it's God's will, and they abduct and convert people into their madness. Helios Trust is one of the most powerful corporate entities in the world. The "Radiance" event broke transistors, so no technology relying on silicon works on the surface, causing "Silicon Rot". Dependence on older technologies like vacuum tubes, and future like solid state batteries is much more prevalent, a clash of technologies from the future and past working together to make life easier. Only centralized entities like Helios and governments have the contained facilities to use advanced silicon technology like robotics and automated fabrication. They knew it was coming.
The idea started as a grimdark low-fantasy brutally dangerous magic world, and transformed into a near-future Solarpunk post-apocalyptic world. I relied on AI for a lot of the writing and strict plot critique of the early forms. This is the product of about 3 months of hard world building and took me many iterations to think about what world I wanted to create.
It is public and available to download the PDF at this link:
https://masland.tech/lux/
If you have any feedback, please feel free to comment and let me know. I am open and willing to discuss new ideas. Anything that may stick out as badly written or doesn't make sense to you, please let me know. There is still much to be written. Thanks for reading!
Maxを主人公として、彼は師にして友でもあるViktorとともに、コミュニティにとって切実なlux生産における画期的な瞬間へと突き進む。「Elektron Orthodoxy」通称"Dox"は、琥珀の精製を異端と見なす過激な狂信者集団だ。彼らは神の意志と信じ、生の琥珀を用いて不安定な魔法を行使し、人々を拉致しては自分たちの狂気へと引き込む。Helios Trustは世界屈指の強大な企業体である。"Radiance"と呼ばれる事象がトランジスタを破壊し、地表ではシリコンに依存するいかなる技術も機能しなくなった――いわゆる「Silicon Rot」だ。その結果、真空管のような旧来の技術や、固体電池のような次世代技術への依存が急速に高まり、過去と未来の技術が入り混じりながら人々の生活を支えている。Heliosのような中央集権的な組織や政府だけが、ロボット工学や自動製造といった高度なシリコン技術を使用できる管理設備を保有している。彼らはそれが来ることを知っていた。