A war that will decide
the fate of the universe.
It is the year 3022. Humanity and the Grays hold a fragile peace over NiFe, the rare meta-material that powers superweapons, fuels entire civilizations, and decides who holds power in the galaxy.
At the center of it all is Melcrose, a young girl whose family was killed, whose name was taken, and whose body was dismembered by Temeluchus, the god-like emperor who commands the Grays.
All of it because of what lies inside her; a power that could control the universe and creation itself.
She survived.
She remembers what was taken from her.
And there is no sacrifice she wouldn’t make… for justice.
NiFe
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Ni
Nickel
26
Fe
Iron
The Protagonist
Melcrose
“MEL-krohz”
Melcrose never asked to be the center of a thousand-year war.
She was just a kid when Temeluchus burned through her world to reach her, taking her parents, her brother, her home, everything. Captured by the Grays, she endured hell: experiments that ripped her apart until there was nothing left to save.
The humans pulled her out too late. Cybernetic rebuild was the only option. Cold metal replacing flesh, NiFe-alloy limbs, Gray tech fused into what remained. She survived because of the Pink Adallium raging in her veins… and because the ones who broke her still breathe.
The little girl who once laughed is gone. What came back is vengeance wrapped in metal: a cyborg driven by justice that won’t let her rest until the Grays pay for what they stole.
Melcrose, at three points in her life.
Neo Tokyo · 3017
Melcrose
Around fourteen years old. The version of Melcrose who still had hope and innocence, before Temeluchus took everything from her.
Kamen · 3022
Yael
Five years later, Melcrose wound up on the Kamen asteroid conducting covert operations, trying to expose what the Grays are really hiding on the rock. Yael is her disguise.
After the rebuild
Melcrose
Resurrected from the brink of death. Held together by cybernetic parts, Adallium, and a sense of vengeance and justice coursing through her veins.
The Antagonist
Temeluchus
“teh-meh-LOO-kus”
Temeluchus was born to rule. Once the pinnacle of celestial beings, second only to the Great One itself, he grew convinced nothing could stand above him. So he waged war on the Archonians and bent reality to his will, until the fabric of existence began to tear.
The Great One stripped him of godhood and cast him down, shattering his mind into three warring fragments: pride that whispers of destiny, fear that gnaws at weakness, and rage that drowns out everything else. They speak in his head, sometimes one voice, sometimes a screaming chorus.
Deformed and exiled from divinity, he clawed his way to Emperor of the Gray Alliance. On the surface he hunts NiFe to fuel conquest after conquest. Deeper, he hunts Adallium: the primal force that could restore what was taken and let him remake the universe in his own image.
Melcrose is the child he could not break, carrying the purest Pink Adallium he has ever found. She is the scar of his defeat, and possibly the final key to undoing it.
“You have something that I’ve been waiting for, for a very long time.”
NiFe
“KNEE-fee”
Nickel and iron. The meta-material that lights cities, powers superweapons and carries ships between galaxies. It exists in two places: locked in Earth’s molten core, and near the surface of Kamen.
Adallium
“uh-DAL-ee-um”
An ancient energy hidden inside human bloodlines. It flares pink in the eyes when its host fights or grieves. Most carriers live and die never knowing they had it. Melcrose burns with the rarest form of all.
Kamen
“KAY-men”
A mining asteroid caught between Earth and the Moon since 2750, and the richest reachable NiFe in the solar system. The Galactic Treaty splits it in half: humans dig one side, the Grays dig the other.
NiFe decides who can fight the war. Adallium decides who can end it.
Three issues out. Two places to start.
Issues #1 and #2 are one story across two books. Issues #3 to #5 are the Kamen Arc, and #3 was built so a new reader could start there cold.
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Issue #1: The Invasion
Melcrose stares into a mirror at a body that is not hers. The memories come flooding back: the Grays have invaded Neo Tokyo and loosed their greatest warriors, the Abboritions, on her family. Their orders are simple. Find the girl, and take her.
Live
Issue #2: The Sacrifice
Still running, with one job: get her brother Kaelen out alive. Then the real hunter reveals himself. Temeluchus, a primordial being of immeasurable power, and what he wants is sleeping in her blood.
Live
Issue #3: The Heist
Five years on, a human spy goes deep into the Gray mines on Kamen chasing a suspicion. What she finds is a host of Abborition workers and warriors pulling impossible amounts of NiFe out of the rock, all of them guarding a single device.
December 2026
Issue #4: The Hunt
Temeluchus sends his deadliest general through a Void Matrix portal with an armada behind him and one order: bring Melcrose to Nibiru. She goes to ground on Kamen with Talos, whose organisation she has no reason to trust.