While Nova Technologies was fundamentally restructuring the political and economic realities of Earth, Liam Scott remained entirely detached from the passage of local time, suspended in a lotus position in the silent, freezing vacuum of deep space.
His physical body was a motionless statue anchored above the Earth, but his immortal consciousness was tearing through the cosmos at speeds that defied the boundaries of physical reality.
He was locked in an endless, hypnotic rhythm of mental transit, projecting his spiritual sense from one galaxy-wide entropy law gear to the next.
His objective was clear: trace the mechanical web of universal decay all the way to the absolute edge of the cosmos—the vanguard where the accelerating heat death was violently eating away at the surviving universe.
It had been days since he first linked his mind to the Milky Way's local gear and began his outward jump, but the sheer monotony of the void was beginning to erode his perception of time.
