Introduction: It began with fire. A thorium plant in Texas cracked apart, painting the night with ash that clung to skin and left a metallic taste on every tongue. Sirens stretched for hours. Then came more disasters, bridges dropping in sheets of rain, aircraft falling out of a cloudless sky, each strike too precise, too cruel, to feel like chance.Six years earlier, Alex Hartman was already drowning in loss, haunted by the sound of his wife鈥檚 last breath. Then came Vivek, an investor whose luck seemed to bend the world around him. Together they built AlephNull, a machine designed to think the way people do, with leaps and falters instead of straight lines.When it stared too far, it recoiled. Something was already in the dark. Something old, watching, pressing down on the roll of the dice.Now every close call, every sudden crash, every narrow escape feels rigged. The world itself trembles. Hartman and his team have one chance to push back, to create a weapon that can change the way fate itself is dealt.But as the smoke thickens and the ground cracks beneath them, one question weighs heavier than the rest:If luck was never real, how do you fight the hand that wrote the game?I started writing this book because I wanted to explore a sci- fi scenario where probability was the main weapon, and an antagonist that will wield just that. Somewhere set in the near future, where humanity has set up a base on the moon, discovered fusion, has something like Neuralink- but everything is in early stages. It is a kind of hope-punk with characters facing extreme challenges to save humanity. I want to continue the world building and eventually make this a three book series.Updates: Every Saturday/Sunday or Wednesday...