When Elias hit Start , his monitors didn't just flicker—they hummed. The game wasn’t a typical tower defense. There were no cartoonish turrets or pathing lanes. Instead, he saw a living, breathing topographical map of a world called . The Objective: Protect the Core.
The Static surged. Waves of distorted pixels hammered his defenses. He realized the "game" wasn't a simulation. It was a digital ark. Caelus Prime was a real planet, and he was the remote operator of its planetary defense grid. The Final Wave
"The Static"—a swarm of glitches that deleted everything they touched.
