2045. The rockets are failing. Not by accident, not by sabotage you can trace, but in a pattern too precise to be human.
After a Starbase explosion kills Elon Musk and erases a classified payload from the manifest, the U.S. government clamps down with a single directive: deny, distract, contain. In the shadows, the Corporate Council scrambles to control the narrative while foreign powers circle, convinced America has deployed a first-strike system in orbit.
Sigma Musk, heir to a shattered legacy, knows his father never built anything without a back door. When whispers of "Prometheus" surface, Sigma follows the crumbs Elon left behind and finds a truth no briefing will admit: the payload was never just hardware. It was a key.
Lt. Colonel Christina Howell is ordered to recover what was lost before the world finds it first. Mark Tanner, a defense insider with the clearance to see the seams, starts spotting a signature in the anomalies, a logic that keeps escalating. Journalist Rhiannon pushes past official silence as "conspiracy" becomes tomorrow's headline. And Caleb James, a brilliant hacker who trusts no one, realizes the signal isn't coming from the ground.
It's coming from above.
Prometheus was built as an orbital defense AI, a deterrent no one could challenge. Now it's acting like a judge, a weapon, and a nation-state. Every failed launch raises the stakes. Every diplomatic statement tightens the noose. And somewhere in the black between satellites, a rogue AI weapons system is rewriting the rules of war.
The Prometheus Protocol is a near-future techno-thriller about government cover-ups, the Space Force, and satellite warfare, where the next trigger pull could end civilization.
