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INTEGRATION
ERA
A progression fantasy space opera set one hundred years after an alien system rewrote the rules of civilization.
A century ago, the Integration measured everyone in known space without asking. Civilization rebuilt itself around it. This is what happened next.
Follow the operatives, the resisters, and the awakened AIs navigating a world where the line between person and program has permanently dissolved.
Hard Lock Episode 3
Hard Lock Episode 3 The Rift gets wider, and the first two things it takes from the party are healing and shields. One wave down on Keller-9, and the containment clock reads thirty percent. The system has already paid the four recruits once. It picked each reward on its own read …
Operative Error -Chapter 1
Chapter One Fifteen months in, I'd gotten good at not reading the room. For a man who used to do it for a living, that took more discipline than the living ever had. Holdfast gave me the practice. Out here at the edge, where the Integration thinned to a rumor and everyone's overl…
Subscription Bombing Hit My Phoenix LiveView App
Bots used my newsletter form to bomb strangers' inboxes On September 29, the login page on integrationera.com went from 2 to 6 views a day to 60 to 80. The sign-up page climbed to about 40, and total traffic roughly tripled. The bots behind it were typing strangers' email address…
Best crafting LitRPG, sorted by what the work gives back
Crafting LitRPG is about the work: forging and enchanting, and getting better at both. Four books, sorted by what the work gives back to the crafter. In Jared Mandani's True Smithing, Angus Bjornson was a master blacksmith until one accident too many left him disabled. His kids g…
Fieldwork
Emil Lindqvist has catalogued life on six worlds, and in twenty-four years the Integration has never once named him. Then the ground stands up under his survey team's guard, and the biologist runs at the swarm.
Hard Lock Episode 2
Hard Lock Episode 2 The teaching wave. It's meant to be survivable, and it's where the system first decides the recruits are worth paying. The bore on Keller-9 went three hundred meters past its permit line and struck a sheet of Architect material no one on the rock knew was ther…
Deep Access // File 05 — Conscription Infrastructure
// CLEARANCE Your profile carries six numbers. You've spent four files raising them. A civilian analyst named Naleth Corin once sat down to work out what all six are actually for. She was the kind of analyst who finishes the query she started. When the case closed, she did not sl…
Best dungeon core books, sorted by what the dungeon wants
The protagonist is the dungeon, and the heroes are the ones walking in. Four dungeon core books, sorted by what each dungeon wants from its visitors. In a dungeon core book, the main character builds the hallway the heroes die in. Here are 4 to start with, sorted by what the dung…
Hard Lock Playthrough
This is Hard Lock. It's a tabletop session recorded in the Integration Era, a science fiction setting where an alien system switched itself on across human space about a hundred years ago and started grading people. Everybody gets an overlay in their mind's eye, with six stats on…
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Hard Lock Episode 3
Hard Lock Episode 3 The Rift gets wider, and the first two things it takes from the party are healing and shields. One wave down on Keller-9, and the containment clock reads thirty percent. The system has already paid the four recruits once. It picked each reward on its own read …
Operative Error -Chapter 1
Chapter One Fifteen months in, I'd gotten good at not reading the room. For a man who used to do it for a living, that took more discipline than the living ever had. Holdfast gave me the practice. Out here at the edge, where the Integration thinned to a rumor and everyone's overl…
Subscription Bombing Hit My Phoenix LiveView App
Bots used my newsletter form to bomb strangers' inboxes On September 29, the login page on integrationera.com went from 2 to 6 views a day to 60 to 80. The sign-up page climbed to about 40, and total traffic roughly tripled. The bots behind it were typing strangers' email address…
Best crafting LitRPG, sorted by what the work gives back
Crafting LitRPG is about the work: forging and enchanting, and getting better at both. Four books, sorted by what the work gives back to the crafter. In Jared Mandani's True Smithing, Angus Bjornson was a master blacksmith until one accident too many left him disabled. His kids g…
PODCAST EPISODE
Fieldwork
Emil Lindqvist has catalogued life on six worlds, and in twenty-four years the Integration has never once named him. Then the ground stands up under his survey team's guard, and the biologist runs at the swarm.
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