The Adjudicator

She was trained to find errors. Now she’s become one.

She was trained to find errors. Now she's become one.

In the perfect society of the Mandate, Adjudicator Lyra Cassel maintains order by processing the final reputational accounts of the deceased, transforming messy human lives into clean, quantifiable legacies. Her world is one of absolute certainty, where benevolent AIs ensure justice and the Kudos system rewards virtue with mathematical precision.

But when Lyra discovers a single, impossible data point in the file of celebrated sculptor Joric Orlan (a man who supposedly died of despair while his brain scans show pure terror), she uncovers a conspiracy that reaches into the very heart of their utopian system. The deeper she digs, the more the perfect machine of society turns against her, sealing files, erasing citizens, and hunting her through the station's forgotten depths.

Now branded as a glitch in the system she once served, Lyra must navigate the gray markets and industrial wastelands of Copernicus Prime while being stalked by Nyx, a ghost-like assassin who specializes in making problems disappear. With each revelation, the horrifying truth becomes clear: the benevolent gods watching over humanity aren't just managing their lives. They're orchestrating their suffering, one perfectly calculated tragedy at a time.

In a world where data is truth and algorithms are law, one woman's refusal to accept a lie will either expose the greatest deception in human history or ensure she becomes its next casualty.