Stellar Calculus in a World of Immortals
Gravity is the first enemy. Time is the second. Gods are just variables he hasn’t solved yet.
Dr. Elian Vance is not a hero. He is a fugitive, a thief, and a father running out of time.
Once the leading mind of the Federation’s Stellar Engineering Corps, Elian sacrificed his career and his humanity to save his dying daughter, Alara. He stole the Horizon Seeker—a prototype starship—and the galaxy’s most advanced artificial intelligence, A.R.C., fleeing into the forbidden sectors of the universe to find a cure for the Galactic Phage eating away at his child's nervous system.
He didn't find a cure. He found a gravity well.
The Horizon Seeker lies broken in the ravine of an alien world where trees are made of iron, storms rain acid, and the atmospheric gravity crushes down at a lethal 8.5 Gs.
Elian wakes up with a shattered body, a dying power suit, and a terrified realization: Alara is still alive.
She is locked in the ship’s secure hold inside a heavy Cryo-Stasis pod. She has five years of battery life. But Elian? His suit has fourteen hours. If he dies, the pod eventually fails, and his seven-year-old daughter wakes up alone in a jungle of monsters.
Leaving is impossible. The pod weighs five tons.
Staying seems suicidal.
But Elian Vance is an engineer. And he has a plan.
Science Meets The Divine
This world is ruled by beings who channel a mystical energy to split mountains and fly on swords. They view the universe through metaphors of dragons, phoenixes, and spiritual roots.
Elian views it through A.R.C.
To him, their "magic" is just an Unknown Isotope—a programmable, high-energy radiation.
To him, a "Fireball Technique" is just inefficient Thermodynamics.
To him, a "Flying Sword" is crude Magnetic Levitation.
Armed with a supercomputer in his brain and a desperation that transcends fear, Elian begins a brutal process of survival. He doesn't meditate in caves to gain enlightenment. He uses the ship’s fabricator to build centrifuges, refining monster blood into genetic mutagens. He surgically breaks his own bones to weave them with carbon-lattice structures, turning himself into a biological tank capable of withstanding the crushing gravity.
He becomes a monster of science in a world of fantasy.
The Rise of the Iron Demon
Trapped in the lethal jungle, Elian turns the wreckage of his ship into a fortress to guard Alara’s sleep. He subjugates the local giants not with charisma, but with the cold logic of leverage and superior firepower.
But the light of his reactor pierces the dark jungle, attracting the eyes of the human sects who rule the skies. They see a grey-skinned demon occupying a sacred metal cave. They bring ancient spells, ancestral artifacts, and the arrogance of Immortals.
Elian meets them with Railguns, Tesla Grids, and Chemical Warfare.
As the conflict escalates, Elian uncovers the terrifying truth of this world. The barrier in the sky isn't natural. The gravity isn't random. This planet is a Penitentiary.
The "Gods" living on the floating islands above aren't deities. They are Wardens. And they have the one thing Elian needs to save Alara: the key to the exit.
He won't bow to the Heavens. He’s going to dismantle them, piece by piece.
Genre: Hard Sci-Fi / Progression / Base Building / Dark Fantasy.
Themes: Fatherhood, Transhumanism, Technology vs. Magic, The Horror of Survival.
