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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!