Act I: Easy Data

Max at a window of glowing screens, watching a lone figure in a dark European alley at night — the web of surveillance arcing across the city toward his mark.

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Chapter 8: The Mark

Act I: Easy Data · The Null Identity, serialized.

Max as Janus — the cold web-architect on one side, the smooth-talking con man's smile on the other.

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Chapter 7: Janus Ascends

Act I: Easy Data · The Null Identity, serialized.

A deployed soldier's war and his family's night at home, braided by a surveillance data web — the collateral souls.

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Chapter 6: Collateral Souls

Act I: Easy Data · The Null Identity, serialized.

A worried military family at home as their private data is drawn into a vast surveillance web.

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Chapter 5: Operation Spiderweb

Act I: Easy Data · The Null Identity, serialized.

Line-art drawing of a U.S. soldier saluting as the flag dissolves into data drifting toward grasping shadows.

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Chapter 4: Soldier: For Sale

Act I: Easy Data · The Null Identity, serialized.

B&W night scene: Max at a wall of glowing surveillance screens — world maps, network graphs, New Year's fireworks outside.

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Chapter 3: Intrusion

Act I: Easy Data · The Null Identity, serialized.

Max walks a sunlit old-town street, gesturing as he works a problem aloud with Sybil

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Chapter 2: Reconnaissance

Act I: Easy Data · The Null Identity, serialized.

Single-line ink drawing of two-faced Janus — one bearded face looking back, one youthful face looking ahead.

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Chapter 1: Janus

Act I: Easy Data · The Null Identity, serialized.