The death of the universal operating system was not a quiet event. It was a mathematical shockwave that rippled across billions of galaxies, echoing through the localized physics of every surviving incubation node and celestial empire in existence.
For millions of years, the highest tier of the cosmic food chain had been occupied by the Axiom Sovereignty.
They were an ancient, sprawling civilization of biological apex predators who had successfully survived their Category-Five planetary integration millennia ago. They had reached the absolute peak of the terrestrial leveling system—Level 99—and had completely submitted to the cosmic bureaucracy. In exchange for their obedience, the System had granted them the role of universal enforcers. They acted as the tax collectors of the cosmos, strip-mining younger worlds and hoarding localized caloric payloads.
