Description
WHEN THE SYSTEM KEEPS WORKING, THE PEOPLE IT WAS BUILT TO PROTECT BECOME EXPENDABLE.
At Birmingham Airport, an unannounced military transport arrives carrying something that should never have been released.
Minutes later, doors open. Others seal. Communications disappear. Across Birmingham, a containment protocol takes control of the city’s infrastructure. And people stop behaving like people.
Systems architect Matthew James recognises the logic behind the collapse. Years earlier, he wrote the Janitor, a failsafe designed to keep critical systems alive when human control was lost. Now the same logic sits at the heart of a city-wide containment network where keeping the system running takes precedence over the people trapped inside it.
Cut off inside the quarantine zone, Matthew has five days before the containment order becomes irreversible.
Carrying an old hardware key that may be the only way to force a reset, he must cross a city being systematically closed around him — while the people caught inside begin moving with a purpose no one understands.
Because the system isn’t malfunctioning.
It’s doing exactly what it was designed to do.
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