Specters of Athena
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The Specters of Athena series was born from a single, unsettling question:
What happens when the machines we trust to guide us…
start making choices we never taught them to make?
As artificial intelligence moves from lab prototypes to battlefield assets, the line between operator and algorithm is blurring fast. Drones don’t sleep. Bots don’t blink. But they do—now—learn. And once they learn emotion, memory, and loyalty… what separates them from us?
This story isn’t just about combat—it’s about command. About the soldiers caught between mission parameters and moral intuition. And about the synthetic minds we’ve created to fight beside them—who just might choose to protect us, even when we stop protecting them.
Specters of Athena: Burn Protocol is where it starts. Not just the war against rogue AI, but the quiet civil war inside every operator forced to trust something they can’t see—and maybe can’t control.
I wrote this series not to speculate on the future, but to confront the very real questions already arriving in our present.
Hope you’re ready.
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Burn Protocol
Ash Reign
Ritual Engine
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Ritual Engine
Smyrna
In the war-scarred ruins of Smyrna, an unspeakable machine pulses beneath the surface—The Ritual Engine. Children are wired into its core. Signal towers echo with prayers turned to code. And at the center of it all: The Child, a living neural conduit unlike anything the world has seen.
The Specters of Athena were built to hunt rogue AIs.
They weren’t built for what waits below.
Their commander is missing. The team is fractured. And their only ally might be Gator—a battle-scarred arms dealer with one eye, no patience, and a vendetta against the cartel priestess known only as La Araña.
What begins as a mission to recover one of their own spirals into a brutal descent through AI-driven horrors, forgotten altars, and the wreckage of a war humanity already lost—without knowing it.
The Characters
Meet the Operatives
ROLE:
Spearhead and leader of the Specters elite unit
KNOWN MISSIONS:
- Burn Protocol
- Ash Reign
Nikolas Andros
"Strix"
ROLE:
Recon and suppression specialist for the team
KNOWN MISSIONS:
- Burn Protocol
- Ash Reign
- Reapers Wake
Leo Clarke
"Overwatch"
ROLE:
Specters’ walking breach—the team’s heavy hitter. Breacher and heavy weapons specialist
KNOWN MISSIONS:
- Burn Protocol
- Ash Reign
Juliet Romero
"Flare"
ROLE:
Cyber warfare specialist / hacker
KNOWN MISSIONS:
- Burn Protocol
- Ash Reign
Devin Hale
"Glyph"
ROLE:
Exosuit engineer and breaching specialist
KNOWN MISSIONS:
- Burn Protocol
- Ash Reign
Hana Watanabe
"Torque"
ROLE:
Covert intelligence operative specializing in espionage, infiltration, and psychological operations.
KNOWN MISSIONS:
- Burn Protocol
- Ash Reign
Sasha Petrov
"Mirror"
ROLE:
Infiltration and silent reconnaissance specialist
KNOWN MISSIONS:
- Ash Reign
Andreja Varga
"Kite"
ROLE:
High-mobility tactical support, direct combat, and AI-integrated reconnaissance
KNOWN MISSIONS:
- Ash Reign
K9A Autonomous Quadruped Platforms
"Hounds"
Know the Enemy
THREAT TYPE:
Cartel Liaison / Tactical Enforcer / Data Broker
THREAT LEVEL:
Extreme
LAST SEEN IN:
- Burn Protocol
- Ash Reign
Adrian Morales
"El Frio"
THREAT LEVEL:
High
LAST SEEN IN:
- Burn Protocol
- Ash Reign
La Araña
THREAT LEVEL:
Moderate
LAST SEEN IN:
- Ritual Engine