The Silver Plague

The story follows Julian Varon as a devastating silver plague spreads across inhabited worlds and he struggles to halt its advance while becoming personally marked by the contagion. Interwoven episodes center on Fermin, an Arch‑Mutant who contemplates the exile of silver‑haired Mutants to the Jovian moons and the brittle complacency of a World‑State that suppressed effort and desire. The narrative examines how segregated lunar societies respond to external threat and internal unrest, exploring themes of exile, engineered peace, social guilt, and the human need for the conditions that make freedom meaningful.