Book Four: The Dawn of HALI
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.