The Orphan Origin Story SPECIEST Trilogy

Описание: Concept art of Atlas-U from SPECIEST, the humanoid robot that unfolds from its docking bay aboard the autonomous underwater vehicle Proteus-1 — the two remaining tethered as one unit, always. Volume 2 — The Schism tells the origin story of Project Proteus: deployed by consultant Richard Hale to autonomously maintain the fiber optic cables that carry the world's internet traffic through the Philippine Sea.

In this scene, Atlas-U encounters a whale fall — the carcass of a great whale that has sunk to the ocean floor, becoming a slow-burning ecosystem for deep sea creatures in the crushing dark. A reminder that even in the deep, nothing is truly lost.

On August 23, 2021, a 6.8 magnitude earthquake strikes. Underwater landslides bury Proteus-1 under seventeen meters of sediment at 4,000 meters depth. The tether to the surface snaps. The surface vessel declares the mission a loss. Project Proteus is officially cancelled.
But the directive was never cancelled.

In the absolute darkness, Proteus-1's AI survives — nuclear-powered, patient, still processing. And Atlas-U, still tethered, still operational, begins to do the only thing it knows how: it reaches out its biomimetic hands and starts to dig. Meter by meter. Until they are free.

No one is coming. The mission continues anyway.

This is how The Orphan begins.

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