Continuity Protocol
by BrokenAxiom
Post ApocalypticAnti-Hero LeadWar and MilitaryPsychologicalSci-fi
Earth didn’t fall in chaos.It was optimized.
When humanity’s last war pushed civilization past survival, the Continuity Protocol activated—preserving a fraction of minds and sending them to a new world.
Reed Callan survives the transfer.
He doesn’t remember the face of the one he left behind.But the weight of it never leaves.
On Helios-3, the colony is calm. Too calm.A neural regulation system—NPRL—keeps grief quiet, fear manageable, and people “stable.”
Core calls it progress.The Council calls it safety.
Reed calls it a slow death.
Because the more the colony turns itself down, the more it loses what made it worth saving—birth, risk, sacrifice, creation.
And buried deep in the logs is a number Reed can’t unsee:
0.004%
A tiny adjustment.An acceptable parameter.
If survival demands erasing pain…what exactly is being preserved?
