Manuscript: Lem's Memories

Lem's suburban life shatters as machines appear on the horizon.

Lynn arrives and forces Lem into activation.

Lem discovers he is not human; Lynn installs remote compulsion.

Lem is embedded with soldiers for a desperate Moon mission.

Soldiers discuss psychological warfare and hidden truths.

Visual confirmation that the Moon is not what humanity was taught.

Ship reaches lunar altitude; one soldier breaks psychologically; Lynn makes a ruthless decision.

Tor's broadcast; Moon begins to fragment; The Caucasian Eagle is struck and falls toward surface.

Lem survives impact and Aether-Drive fugue; rescued by repair vehicle; Novak activates Lem's mission; isolated on lunar surface.

Lem joins strike team; plasma cannon engagement; multiple casualties; Rahu emerges as active threat.

Lem recognizes Rahu as a Vessel; Tor sacrifices the Hermes to suppress Rahu's advance; Novak assumes command; the mission continues.

Strike force reaches pyramid at base's center; Tor emerges alive; Rahu revealed to be alive inside; soldiers prepare for battle.

Soldiers engage Rahu; Lynn reveals share history and ancient argument; Lynn merges with Lem into Wood/Water entity; Rahu defeated; Lynn dissolves into Lunar Capacitor to initiate system reset.

Rahu disrupts the system reset causing the 'Great Fry'; Lynn remains missing; Novak places both Rahu and Lem into stasis.

Lem's stasis dream; Lynn's software visitation; revelation of the Cosmic Life Cycle and the warning of the Bright Path snare.

Mission 1 has already begun; Lem's consciousness migrates to a Gorgon body at Cradle Zero; Rahu arrives.

Rahu probes the 'Staring Gorgon's' memories; Lem is identified as 'Mara.'

Rahu panics and is remote-detonated; Core's remote operation and limited visibility highlighted.

Lem's spirit is captured and analyzed by Dr. Vane and Novak; Core is mystified by his survival.

Reconnected with AI Lynn, Lem resists reformatting while hiding his true memory.

Lem is put onto Mission 2 immediately; Core ignores the significance of his power; briefing on utopian cities.

Deployment to the equatorial dead zone; introduction to the 'wild' Monoliths; the dangerous loyalty test.

The mission turns violent; Lem experiences his first reincarnation; Metal Vessels begin to see him as Rahu's replacement.

Perimeter cleared; Lem is awarded as the 'New Hero'; Metal Vessels recognize his spiritual life and independence.

Utopian Hive takes shape; Lem realizes the paradise is a prison; he reaches the height of his esteem with the Corps.

Lem is sent to the north; Rahu is redeployed but contact is forbidden; Lem meets Arlo.

Rapid deployment; villagers' distrust of tech; Arlo's desire to join the Corps vs. village rigidity.

Tripods refuse to attack the village; a soldier shoots unprovoked; the moral dilemma of engagement.

Core orders a hunt for the Tripods; violent forest engagement; Arlo refuses conscription; beacon removal demanded.

Mission 4 infiltration; search for inhabitants; Cassia gives Lem tactical control.

Lem is consumed by an electronic snake; the anomaly of high-detail reincarnation memory.

Multiple deployments; the 'grinding' nature of the mission; discovery of the sunlit clearing.

Contact with Myrr; revelation of the 'King of the Gorgons'; analog vs digital sanctuary.

Lem agrees to the analog read; Myrr encounters the Cataclysm data; the psychic crash and Lem's shattering.

Confrontation with Anton Drexler; the "Fatalist Fallacy" revealed; Lem forced into electrostatic stasis.

Years pass in stasis; Lem's recursive vision of the White Forest massacre.

Lem returns to the White Forest ruins in his dream; transition to reality in the clearing.

Lem manifests as Analog Lem; the forest assault continues; ambush at the crashed carrier.

Conversation with Myrr; the revelation of the "Key"; reabsorption of the cargo vehicle.

Lem observes Rahu and the arsenal; final departure into the wilderness.

Solitude and aetheric evolution; the realization of the "Maya Match" software clue.

Return to the White Forest ruins; the stolen database revelation; manifestation of the Analog Hovercraft.

Flight across the Hive Cities; discovery that the Mission 3 villages remain untouched.

Reunion with Myrr; Lem manifests a new Human Interface Device; shared mission to find the Water Vessel.

Lem reunites with Arlo; disclosure of the Tripod attacks and the Beacon resistance.

Lem identifies Arlo as the Water Vessel's spirit; Arlo rejects the "Maya" identity.

The hike out of the village; Arlo maintains his skepticism while seeking to save his village.

Arlo uses the HID to witness the raw record of the Moon Cataclysm; the Fallacy is shattered.

Arlo rejects the mission and his identification as a Vessel spirit; the Crew's disillusionment.

Arlo returns to the village; the Crew resolves to launch a direct assault on the Core's desert base.

Lem develops hybrid wood-core tech; Mission 5 deployment; the Node strategy.

The automated assault on the city node; the mystery of the absent defense.

The Node trap is sprung; city-wide blackout; the "Architect's" propaganda statement.

The Crew's refusal to quit; massive mobilization of the Tree Army.

Moon pods launch a counter-attack; the arrival of the Sky-Monoliths; symmetric warfare.

The infiltration fleet's dash for Cradle Zero; the gamble against the Core's infrastructure.

The infiltration battle at Cradle Zero; the Tree Army is dismantled by a phantom enemy.

Rahu is identified as the invisible foe; the terrifying reality of his mastery.

Disillusionment and the passage of time; the Crew's isolation in the wilderness.

Internal debates within the Core leadership regarding the "Maya" problem.

The rise of pro-villager sentiment in the Hive Cities; failure of the Core's utopia.

The Core's diplomatic gambit; a respectful emissary arrives with an ultimatum.

Cassia Vane's secret plea to Arlo; the revelation of "Plan B."

Arlo's reasoned rejection of the Core's offer; acceptance of the inevitable cost.