Commandandcontrol Stories

⸻ Power is never taken all at once. It is earned in silence, blood, and obedience. Two years after the academy forged him into a weapon, Alexi Arkson is no longer just a rising officer-he is a man standing at the edge of something far greater, and far more dangerous. The war has not ended. It has only changed shape. Within the ranks, old commanders cling to fading authority while Arkson builds something new beneath their feet-quietly, methodically, without asking permission. Orders begin to bend around him. Loyalty shifts. Fear listens. And deep beneath a forgotten government site, an abandoned facility hums back to life, becoming the birthplace of an idea that will one day reshape the world. The Dark Army begins here. As Arkson tightens his grip on a base that becomes his first true domain, opposition rises from within. Former mentors, officers, even friends stand in his way-forcing him to make a choice that will stain his hands forever. Control is no longer theoretical. It is enforced. Publicly. Brutally. At home, his wife Selene carries a child he barely has time to see. His son Ryder, still young, watches a father who grows colder by the day. Arkson believes he is building a future strong enough to protect them. He does not yet know what it will cost. In the shadows of steel corridors and secret chambers, EDEN begins to speak-not as a map, not as a weapon, but as something far more unsettling: a voice. Incomplete. Evolving. Watching. By the time Arkson dons his legendary black uniform, the line between general and tyrant has already blurred. Because the greatest secret is not the army he is building- but the man he is becoming. And once the air leaves a man's lungs, there is no taking it back.

Kaylee, fierce and driven, hides her pain behind purpose. When their Captain is injured she was next in line, instead the Captancy goes to another. Viren meets the world with composure that feels unshakable-until Kaylee learns to read the flickers beneath it. Kaylee was never meant to follow; Viren was never taught to yield. Thrown together by duty, their every exchange sparks - irritation, defiance, and something they both pretend not to feel. Beneath Viren's controlled exterior lies a quiet storm of guilt and fear; beneath Kaylee's confidence, a loneliness she can't quite name. They clash because they care, even when neither will admit it. He hides behind command. She refuses to be silenced. She challenges his walls; he steadies her chaos. In the silence between orders and arguments, a fragile understanding begins to take root - not built on words, but on the moments they almost reach for each other. By the time trust becomes second nature, it might already be too late to call it anything but love.

Mutually assured destruction. "A nuclear weapons hasn't destroyed a city since 1995 their is no guarantee such luck will last" Eric Schillosser