Title 37 - The Half-Life Laws

The 22nd century pulsates with the 60-hertz hum of the Hive, three-mile-high spires shielding twenty billion souls from a hostile sun. But the heartbeat is stopping. In twelve hours, a celestial scythe known as the White Ribbon will strip the Earth's atmosphere into the dark.

As extinction looms, the Ministry executes Title 37. Marketed as humanity's rescue, these "Half-Life Laws" are actually a lethal trap. They commodify the human soul, partitioning the world into a protected "Main List" of elites and the "Genetic Inventory" abandoned in the shadows.

From glass sanctuaries to oil-slicked sumps, a group of outcasts-a betrayed engineer, an exiled physicist, a shamed astronomer, and a sentient network of scrap-must bypass the corrupt laws to protect the secret Gene-Seed. Against the blinding fire of the sun, they are the final stroke of ink on the scroll of humanity. In a world where immortality is bought, how much is one soul worth?