The Rollback Protocol
This story explores what happens when a system built to preserve reality encounters a human condition it cannot optimize...love. It asks whether true responsibility sometimes requires allowing instability, and whether love itself may be a corrective feature rather than the bug in the system.
STORY
STORYLINE
2026
She wasn’t supposed to see the Simulated system.
He wasn’t supposed to feel anything.
But The Code doesn’t optimize for love, only for control.
Their connection destabilizes systems.
A bond strong enough to rewrite reality.
The deeper they go…the more dangerous they become...
To the system.
To the world.
To each other.
Mara Andrews
Our main character and heroine. She understands code in a way many others do not and she is tasked with the burden of learning it from the inside out to stabilize our reality timeline.
Dr. Marcus Virel
Chairman of Temple Gate University and mentor to Mara as she tries to navigate a new world with the understanding that we live in a simultion and the code can be edited ... but only by someone very special.
Kai Navarro
Friend of Mara and white-hat hacker. She ushers Mara into her world of looking at the raw code and making it do what she wants.