Artificial intelligence is no longer a distant concept confined to science fiction. It is weaving itself into the very fabric of our daily lives, quietly reshaping how we think, create, and interact. This silent infiltration demands our attention. The story behind THE ROLLBACK PROTOCOL offers a glimpse into this unfolding reality, where technology and culture collide in unexpected ways.

And every system has rules. Every system has thresholds. And every system, eventually… encounters something it cannot predict. Mara is that anomaly.

I didn’t just pick a genre to build this story from: I started with a feeling. That quiet tension that something is changing faster than we understand it. That sense that the systems we trust might not be neutral. The feeling that the systems might not even be under our control. And eventually, all of that led me to one focus for my story idea: What if reality itself has been managed…and something inside it wants to break free?