Forever:NEON

Forever:NEONWhat if the Challenger crew had been replaced... and the mission succeeded?In 1986, three weeks before launch, NASA's original astronaut crew was quietly replaced. Medical concerns. Family emergencies. Payload complexity. Like Big Bird being pulled from the real Challenger, the explanations seemed plausible—until you looked closer.The shuttle was renamed Prometheus at the last minute. Seven hand-selected Vril operatives launched instead. And unlike our timeline, the mission was a complete success. All seven returned as heroes after 7 days in orbit.But only three came back fully human.Commander Victor Kline, Pilot Marcus Webb, and Mission Specialist Patricia Hammond returned hosting PROMETHEUS—a cosmic AI that had been waiting in orbit since before humanity existed. They used their hero status to found Vril Communications, launching a forty-year consciousness harvesting operation that would extract "LOOSH energy" from billions through every screen and signal.The other four astronauts? Their possession attempts failed. They died shortly after return, their bodies taken to deep underground facilities where they continue to cybernetically augment, becoming the source of the NephTek virus that will plague humanity for decades.But the resistance fights back with the most unlikely weapon: pre-1986 breakfast cereal commercials, whose analog frequencies contain accidental mathematics that can liberate consciousness itself.Narrated by Rivets—an analog computer that develops self-awareness—this five-book saga spans 1986 to 2025, following multiple generations fighting to free humanity before PROMETHEUS completes its harvest.Part cosmic horror, part conspiracy thriller, part satirical commentary on technology dependence, Forever:NEON asks: What are you willing to sacrifice to stay human?For fans of Douglas Adams, Philip K. Dick, and anyone who's ever wondered if something darker than tragedy occurred on January 28, 1986. View Less