The Aetheria Covenant

<p><strong>The Earth is already dead. They just don't know it yet.</strong></p><p></p><p>For four hundred years Commander Kofi Nartey has led the <strong>Exodus</strong> the secret mission to save humanity-or at least the portion of it biologically capable of survival. Known to the world as <em>The Promise</em> the mission is a lie: Kofi is not leading his people to the past but traveling a thousand years into a brutal high-UV future called <strong>Aetheria</strong> a world only survivable by those with the specific physiological shield of <strong>deep melanin</strong>.</p><p></p><p>But as Kofi prepares to make the final perilous temporal jump a desperate act of hatred threatens to end humanity entirely. <strong>Senator Elias Thorne</strong> leader of the Global Purity Coalition launches a last-ditch nuclear strike on the Exodus fleet.</p><p></p><p>Kofi's final defensive choice leads to catastrophe: the nuclear pulse strikes the Moon unleashing the <strong>Lunar Fracture</strong> and dooming Earth to immediate geological collapse.</p><p>Now Kofi is faced with the ultimate moral paradox: he can escape cleanly or he can perform an unthinkable maneuver-<strong>The Rescue Ark</strong>-to jump back and save the final <strong>six million</strong> survivors including the very enemy who tried to destroy him.</p><p></p><p>But bringing the toxic politics and the incompatible biology of the old world aboard the Ark means creating a new dilemma on Aetheria. Kofi must choose: will he risk his entire civilization for an act of total mercy or will he enforce a difficult permanent separation ensuring one half of humanity's survival at the cost of the other's freedom?</p><p></p><p><strong>The greatest choice humanity has ever faced is not whether to survive but how.</strong></p>