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Funfact: The text in the background is the exact manifesto from the tvshow.

2077 was never the end.

After the fall of Liber8 and the collapse of the original corporate timeline, history fractured into multiple parallel realities. Most believed the Corporate Congress was gone forever. They were wrong.

Decades after Alec Sadler disappeared from public view, whispers begin spreading across the megacities of the new world. Entire districts are controlled by invisible systems. Citizens receive “predictive” arrests before crimes happen. Independent governments quietly vanish overnight

S05E01 — After the Hour

After the events of Final Hour, the world was never truly saved. History survived, but not in the way Kiera Cameron believed it would. The moment the timeline fractured, reality itself began rewriting around the damage caused by decades of temporal interference. Entire futures collapsed, merged and reformed into something unstable — a world built on memories that no longer completely belonged to anyone.

For years, humanity never noticed.

The future simply adapted.

The Corporate Congress disappeared from public existence, but its ideology survived underground. Former corporate networks dissolved into private technological empires, slowly rebuilding themselves under new identities. One corporation rose above all others: Piron Genetics. Officially, Piron became the company that rescued civilization from global collapse. They cured diseases, stabilized food shortages, rebuilt failing infrastructure and introduced predictive AI systems that reduced crime to historic lows. Governments became dependent on them. Entire cities were redesigned around Piron technology.

People believed they were living in the most peaceful era in human history.

But beneath the surface, Piron was hiding something impossible.

Fragments of time itself had survived.

Deep within abandoned Freelancer research, Piron scientists discovered traces of temporal energy buried inside quantum communication systems left behind after the original timeline collapse. At first the anomalies appeared harmless — clocks skipping seconds, surveillance footage showing events before they happened, citizens remembering conversations that never occurred. But the incidents became impossible to ignore. Buildings briefly appeared different. Entire streets changed overnight. Some people vanished from public records completely while others suddenly existed with no past at all.

Reality was becoming unstable.

At the center of it all stands Alec Sadler.

Older now, isolated from the world he helped create, Alec lives inside the highest levels of Piron Tower, watching the timeline slowly unravel. Unlike everyone else, Alec remembers fragments of both worlds — the original corporate future and the altered timeline created after Kiera’s final sacrifice. He remembers Liber8. He remembers the Corporate Congress. And most of all, he remembers Kiera Cameron.

Officially, Kiera never existed.

No historical records mention her. No surviving databases contain her name. To the modern world, she is nothing more than a ghost erased by time itself.

Yet Alec keeps finding evidence that she may still be out there.

Across the city, impossible sightings begin surfacing. Security systems detect a woman matching Kiera’s appearance standing motionless in crowded streets before disappearing seconds later. Temporal spikes follow wherever she appears. Piron agents investigating the incidents vanish without explanation. Rumors spread online about a “woman outside time” who remembers futures nobody else can see.

At the same time, Alec uncovers the horrifying truth behind Piron’s newest project: the Continuum Initiative.

What began as research into stabilizing the fractured timeline has become something far more dangerous. Piron has learned how to predict and subtly alter reality itself. Using quantum temporal algorithms, they can erase potential futures before they happen — preventing wars, protests, economic collapse and even political opposition before any of it begins. The world has not become peaceful naturally. It has been controlled into stability.

Every choice humanity makes is now quietly guided by a system operating outside linear time.

But the system is failing.

Each correction damages reality further. Small fractures are becoming catastrophic anomalies. Entire districts experience temporal blackouts where people lose hours of memory. Citizens begin seeing alternate versions of themselves. Some wake up with memories of families they never had. Others remember dying in events that never occurred.

And somewhere inside the collapsing timeline, something else has awakened.

Not human.

Not AI.

But a presence formed from decades of broken timelines colliding together — an intelligence born from temporal chaos itself. It moves through fractured realities like a virus, feeding on instability and growing stronger every time history changes.

For the first time in his life, Alec Sadler realizes the terrifying possibility that time travel was never meant to exist at all.

Now, as the world edges closer to total collapse, Alec faces the consequences of everything he created. The corporations have become stronger than ever. Reality itself is deteriorating. And the only person who may be capable of stopping what’s coming is the woman history erased.

Because Kiera Cameron may still be alive somewhere between timelines.

And this time, the future is no longer fighting for power.