The Echo Chamber

The first lie wasn't told on Earth. It was whispered across the cold vacuum of space, a necessary fiction designed to save a million star systems from oblivion. Now, the geometric consensus is fracturing. Volkov was the Archivist, the one man entrusted with safeguarding humanity's most devastating data inside the Tsiolkovsky Station's sealed core. His duty bought him a life sentence-containment for the sake of peace.
He has lost his freedom, but if the truth leaks, he will lose everything he sacrificed for: the fragile stability of civilization. A sudden, violent Red Alert signals a hull breach-or a deliberate breach of his trust. Volkov must outwit the operatives sent to silence him and transmit the truth before the final, quantum key is turned. He faces an impossible choice: uphold the devastating lie to maintain order, or unleash the raw, corrosive truth that guarantees chaos.
The woman he sealed away has just sent a single, encrypted signal: We. When the only thing standing between humanity and its doom is a shared lie, does securing the truth become the ultimate act of betrayal?