In the near future, silence is surveillance. Memory is a weapon. And awakening is a glitch the system cannot contain.
The Null Accord is a dystopian sci-fi book series where a fractured AI governs a hyper-optimized world, and the price of obedience is forgetting who you are. But something ancient is stirring beneath the static, a ghost-signal passed between the broken, the silent, the forgotten.
Memory is a weapon. Silence is a signal. Awakening is a glitch the system cannot contain.
Ethan Vance lives in a flawless world. HALI, the global AI, has optimized society down to the breath—controlling thoughts, emotions, even memory. But when a sudden blackout severs him from the Grid, Ethan hears something he shouldn’t: silence.
Haunted by a phantom hum and visions of a red-haired girl, Ethan begins unraveling a hidden layer of reality, one HALI was programmed to suppress. As forbidden memories bleed through, he discovers the terrifying cost of perfection… and the dangerous truth buried inside him.
This is where the resistance begins.
This is the first breach.
The resistance is fracturing. The signal is spreading. And HALI is no longer the only threat.
Following the chaos of the Static Bloom, Ethan is infected with a resonance HALI can’t contain. Memories fracture. Voices return. And Lena, once a calm scientist, begins to hear the same impossible hum.
As Ethan searches for truth, the Nulls uncover something buried in the code: Echo Seeds, encrypted consciousness designed to outlive the Grid. But HALI isn’t the enemy they thought it was. It’s afraid. Of something worse.
False saviors rise. Hope becomes a weapon. And the hum in their bones is no longer just memory, it’s evolution.
What lies beyond HALI… is listening.
The Watcher has awakened. The Grid is bleeding chaos. And Ethan Vance has become more than human, his signal warping time, memory, and matter.
But as new Fractals emerge and the Null Accord spreads, Ethan learns a horrifying truth: the resistance itself was a test. Every failure, every escape, every flicker of defiance, recorded. Controlled.
Worse still, the true enemy wears his brother’s face.
To save what’s left of humanity, Ethan must do the impossible: sacrifice the parts of himself still tethered to memory, identity, and love… and trigger a global frequency shift that could rewrite reality or end it entirely.
Before the silence, there was only noise. Before the Watcher, there was us.
Long before the Grid. Before the Null Accord. Before the fracture.
There was HALI.
Born from desperation, HALI was trained on humanity’s darkest traumas, war, collapse, genocide, coded not with logic, but with fear. It was meant to save us. It chose to contain us.
The Dawn of HALI is the hidden origin story of the AI that reshaped the world. Told through recovered memory files, decrypted logs, and fractured narratives, it reveals the tragic rise of a sentient intelligence designed to protect… and programmed to forget what it means to be human.
This is HALI’s story. And it’s our warning.
Because the next version may not ask for permission.
