the obsidian proxy
Marcus Thorne's Sanctuary was a marvel of engineering—a massive, self-sustaining deep-sea habitat and server farm nestled in the absolute darkness of the Challenger Deep, the Mariana Trench. It was designed to survive a global nuclear war or a complete atmospheric collapse. For Marcus, it was the only place safe from the chaos he had intentionally created.
Julian, Elias, and Kian immediately began preparations for the deep-sea journey, leaving Lena Sharma in the Curaçao bunker to manage the global comms blackout and the incoming flood of data.