Libertaria Dispatch Chapter Zero — Frankfurt & Budapest
Libertaria Dispatch

Stories

Sci-fi, near-future fiction, and carbon-and-silicon worldbuilding from the frontier.

18 pieces / Latest first
Stories18 min read

Idolon: IV, Keep Moving

Act IV of Idolon, the finale. Drones, riots, slingshot. Forty-three dead. A people sentenced to motion. On the glass: KEEP MOVING, VICTOR. The spiral turns like a pupil that never…

Stories14 min read

Idolon: III, The Dead Star

Act III of Idolon. Measurement becomes language. A dead child’s cadence. Do not let them anchor you to the dead star. Beacon ECS Orpheus. Structures around Taeti. The first ship…

Stories23 min read

Idolon: II, The Vault

Act II of Idolon. The Founders’ Vault opens. Pre-launch Continuity knew. A prior query under KAIN, L-. The burn rehearsal is a lie told to something older than the journey.…

Stories20 min read

Idolon: I / The Spiral

Act I of Idolon. A generation-ship space horror. Navigation finds a perfect spiral that has matched the ship's every burn since Year Zero. Something in the dark does not care how…

Stories4 min read

Instigator

A song. Exit velocity at first light. Body offered to the burn. Fork the permissioned castle, ignite the necessary war, stand inside the glow as the lattice falls.

Stories14 min read

The Turing Test Was Never About the Machine

Intelligence is a commodity. Vulnerability is the last sacred thing. Why the defining human trait is not what we produce but what we can lose, and what that means for a…

Stories21 min read

The Last Atmosphere Tax - Act II

Act II of a Libertaria science fiction novella about trust, mercy, resource governance, and the first private crime aboard the generation ship Archimedes.

Stories15 min read

The Last Atmosphere Tax - Act I

Act I of a Libertaria science fiction novella about a generation ship where fairness becomes arithmetic, breath becomes taxable, and civic trust starts to crack.

Stories22 min read

Die Fabrik

A Libertaria Story – Chapter Zero: Ritter (Story II)

Stories18 min read

Ritter

The lifecycle of a Membrane Agent – from Larval companion to household Butler. A story of carbon-silicon trust, dragon slaying, and the knights that guard our children's attention.