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Chapter 126
The glow from the ice domes faded into a distant memory as Jack Parker leaned back in his Polaris Haven quarters, the last of the Arctic tea cooling at his fingertips. Sarah had drifted to sleep beside him on the couch, Emily still going through simulations on her holo-tablet.Jack exhaled slowly. The road ahead was filled with pressure, strategy, vision. But for now, they had clarity. Purpose.Then, deep beneath the layers of DragonCom’s servers, a pulse rippled.Haida AI’s voice whispered through Jack’s neural implant:"Jack. You may want to come to the tech room. Now."Jack stood immediately. "Is it system-wide?""No. It’s something... external. An inbound presence. Reidsville origin. They’re seven hours out. Armed. The signature patterns match Victor Krane’s encrypted movement protocol."He turned his eyes toward Emily, who instantly caught his shift in energy."What is it?""They’re coming."Seven hours later. Midnight.Harmonfield slept beneath starlight and sky-bridges, unaware
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The ice hummed beneath Polaris Haven as the last echoes of chants faded into silence. Jack sat with Sarah and Emily in the soft blue glow of the domed quarters, breath slowing, tea cooling between their fingers."Tomorrow’s another continent," Sarah whispered, her head still resting on Jack’s shoulder.Emily stretched, talisman still tied gently around her wrist. "Siberia first. Then Greenland. Climate equity pacts and geothermal prototypes."Jack looked between them. "And after that...?"Sarah answered, "We start planning the Celestial Energy Bridges. If we get the Nordic and Arctic Union onboard, the fusion loop becomes global."Emily gave a faint smile. "And maybe, just maybe, we’ll get ahead of the next crisis."But back in Draconia, buried beneath an obsidian skyline in Reidsville, the air was thick with a different kind of ambition.Victor Krane stood in the pitch-black conference hall of the VK Directive Building, every curtain drawn, every camera disabled, every drone jammed.
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The ocean was a soft hum beyond the dome, like a giant lullaby soothing the city of Neridia to sleep. But Jack, Emily, and Sarah remained awake, the last of the popcorn kernels scattered like little stars across the floating mat.Emily yawned. "Alright... bedtime. We’ve got a climate treaty call with the Nordic Union in six hours."Jack groaned as he stood. "Why did I agree to a 4 AM conference call across four time zones again?"Sarah grinned, brushing crumbs from her leggings. "Because you’re the guy with half the planet’s climate solutions in your portfolio. And because Emily threatened to unplug your coffee dispensers if you didn’t."Emily shrugged, innocent. "I stand by that threat."They all headed toward the sleeping quarters, still laughing, but even in rest, their work continued.The next morning, Jack was already in a high-altitude jet headed north. The view shifted from deep ocean blue to icy white as they crossed into Arctic airspace. Beneath the clouds, nestled between gl
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The soft glow of the DragonCom panel faded into the walls as the message ended. Jack, Sarah, and Emily sat quietly around the dinner table, the hum of the city outside a distant comfort. The stars no longer the only frontier—they had opened the heavens. Now, the ocean called.Emily pushed her empty bowl away and stood, stretching. "I have to finish the final recalibration for the reef sensors before we dive. They’ve been drifting south by half a meter."Jack leaned back, swirling the last of his wine. "Still worried about the current’s interference with the dome anchors?""That, and the tiger sharks nesting closer to sector 4." Emily walked toward the control deck with practiced urgency. "I’ll meet you both at the bay level in twenty."Sarah looked at Jack as Emily disappeared through the sliding door. "Do you ever get the feeling she loves the ocean more than anything?"Jack smiled. "Not more than anything. But close."They arrived at the launch bay deep beneath Dragon Corporation’s
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The flames from the ceremonial fire still flickered in Jack’s eyes as he, Emily, and Sarah stepped back from the gathering of First Nations elders. The air in Ottawa that night was crisp and alive, thick with reverence, the scent of cedar clinging to their clothes like a vow.No one spoke for a while as they walked through the quiet field that bordered the ceremonial grounds. Sarah held her woven cloak tightly across her shoulders. Emily brushed ash from her sleeve. Jack simply looked up—past the trees, past the clouds, toward a sky that no longer felt unreachable.The silence broke only when Jack said, almost absently, "They’re ready."Emily didn’t need to ask what he meant. She simply nodded. "Then let’s begin."One week later, the first public announcement hit every major network and DragonCom channel on Earth.BREAKING: DRAGON CORPORATION’S MARS COLONIES OPEN FOR PERMANENT HUMAN SETTLEMENT!Under the banner Space Dragon, the initiative Jack had quietly been developing for over a d
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Three weeks later, Harmonfield buzzed with a new kind of energy. Not from protest or panic, but from anticipation. Jack stood inside a newly constructed vault-like command center beneath Dragon Corporation headquarters, flanked by holo-screens pulsing with signals, frequencies, and light-speed packet exchanges.DragonCom had officially gone live.Not just a communications network. Not just the fastest system on Earth. It was a vision: a single interconnected platform where every voice could be heard, no matter how remote. Language barriers shattered. Cultural dialects preserved. Villages in the Himalayas connected to classrooms in Milwaukee. Elders in Patagonia exchanging wisdom with teens in Tokyo.And at the center of it all stood Jack, silent and grounded, watching the interface come to life."You’re nervous," Sarah said, walking up beside him.Jack gave a dry smile. "I’m unleashing something that could either unite humanity or erase its texture. That’s more than nerves."Emily ent
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