Minions of the Crystal Sphere

An authoritarian technocracy suspended over Neptune confines millions inside vast transparent spheres where every life is mapped and enforced by a secretive Inner Circle of scientist-Protectors and a decadent ruler known as His Benevolence. Rituals, masquerades, masked intrigue, and the ever-present threat of the punitive Blessed Sleep maintain order while assassinations and factional plotting secure power for elites. Beyond the sealed cities, dissident Irreconcilables live precariously and are hunted as quarry. Rising tensions coalesce around a figure named Vyrl Guerlan, whose call to arms awakens simmering resistance and sets engineered science against human yearning for freedom.