Deep beneath the Pennsylvania mountains, hidden within solid granite and steel, the Raven Rock Mountain Complex—code-named "Site R"—had been built to survive the unthinkable. Nuclear war. Total invasion. Global collapse. It had outlasted administrations, weathered Cold War paranoia, and survived biological scares.
But not this.
Within the central operations command chamber, fluorescent lights flickered overhead as the last known officials of the pre-apocalypse United States huddled around a dying holographic table. The digital feed stuttered with pixelated artifacts. Only three people remained in that room who had ever sat in the White House.
Former Acting Secretary of State Hal Whitman.
Defense Liaison Brigadier General Erin Kemple.
And former Vice President Edward Langston—now the last in the line of succession.
