the obsidian proxy
“The reason is not my life, Elias. The reason is the Sentinel Ledger Protocol. The reason is the world outside this room.”
“Voss won,” Elias spat. “He knew I would choose this. He chose to trade his life for a personal kill-switch against your moral authority.”
“He knew your heart, Elias. He did not know my conviction,” Julian countered, his voice steady despite the gun aimed at him. “I was twenty years old. My father, Arthur, had activated the Doomsday Protocol—a plan to trigger a pre-programmed, simultaneous collapse of seven major economies, designed to demonstrate his ultimate power and cement the Syndicate’s absolute control, regardless of the Oversight Board’s vote.”