The Continuity Protocol

BEFORE HUMANITY COULD ANSWER THE GREATEST QUESTION IN HISTORY, IT FIRST HAD TO PROVE THE QUESTION WAS REAL.

Dr. Marcus Vance has spent forty years learning to see beneath the noise. So when a distant star begins to dim in patterns no natural process can explain, he does what every good scientist would do. He sets out to prove himself wrong.

He fails.

The evidence leads back through a century of photographic plates to an interstellar object that passed through our solar system in 2017. Then it leads somewhere far closer: into the machines humanity trusts most. Something has been watching for one hundred and sixty-three years. And it has begun to answer.

As the discovery spills out of the institutions and into public view, Marcus and his longtime colleague, Dr. Alejandro Luccero Martinez, face a harder question than whether we are alone. How do you tell the truth when the instruments built to find it can no longer be trusted?

Some questions cannot be answered by one discovery. Some journeys begin with a single observation.

The Continuity Protocol is Book One of the Project Lucida trilogy.