Nearly a week had passed since the dual launch of Lucid Market and Nova Express, and the physical reality of planet Earth had fundamentally transformed.
Look up at the sky in any major metropolitan center, quiet suburban township, or rural village, and the skyline was filled with constant, silent motion.
Sleek, matte-black and polished-white autonomous drones of varying scales zipped through the upper atmosphere and low-altitude flight paths with precision.
To the billions of people watching from the ground, it felt as though the world had suddenly been hurled ten or twenty years into a sci-fi future overnight.
It was a mesmerizing, breathtaking sight—a silent orchestra of advanced engineering weaving between clouds and skyscrapers. But nothing quite matched the quiet thrill of watching a drone lower itself smoothly onto a residential driveway, an apartment balcony, or a corporate loading bay.
