The End Protocol
The Archive holds all human knowledge. When the Signal arrives, one archivist must decide what gets saved — and what gets erased.
Synopsis
In the year 2847, humanity has uploaded everything — every book, every memory, every forgotten tweet — to the Archive, a quantum storage system buried beneath the lunar surface. The Archivists maintain it: sorting, categorizing, curating the vast digital ocean of human existence.
Then the Signal arrives. A transmission from the edge of the observable universe, carrying a simple message: the Archive must be reduced by 50% in 30 days, or it will be destroyed entirely.
Maya Chen, a junior archivist, is assigned to implement the End Protocol. She must choose what half of human knowledge deserves to survive.