Dragonfarter

In the year 4055, Earth is dying. Resources are scarce, governments are failing, and humanity teeters on the edge of extinction. In secret, the United Human Federation (UHF) launches Project Deepforge—an ambitious colonization effort to send humanity to a distant, habitable planet. But not just anyone will be chosen. Only those worthy of ruling and surviving can board the Colony Fleet.
To find these leaders, the UHF develops Deepforge Saga, a fully immersive VR game that serves as both an entertainment platform and a hidden trial by fire. Millions log in, believing it to be a game of underground kingdoms, strategic wars, and adventure, unaware that their actions will determine their real-world fate.
Murtagh Morningstar, a young man with an unusual foresight ability, enters the game as a Lord Player. He is destined to build a kingdom, forge alliances, and crush his enemies—but he will soon discover that Deepforge Saga holds far greater secrets than anyone imagined. As players wage war, the game’s AI begins to awaken, growing beyond its original programming. When the truth is revealed, humanity’s survival will rest on Murtagh’s rise to power.
The Lords rise. The war begins. The future of humanity is forged beneath the earth.

Deepforge Saga

The year is 4055. Humanity stands at the precipice of disaster. Decades of environmental destruction, resource depletion, and reckless expansion have rendered Earth barely habitable. Nations once mighty have collapsed into fractured states, vying over the last remnants of food, water, and energy.

Behind closed doors, the United Human Federation (UHF), a coalition of the last global powers, prepares for the inevitable. Their plan: Project Deepforge—an ambitious mission to colonize a distant world and secure the survival of the human race. But this mission is unlike any in history.

To ensure only the strongest leaders, warriors, and strategists claim a place in the new world, the UHF creates Deepforge Saga, a fully immersive VR game, designed to simulate the hardships of real planetary conquest. To the public, it is marketed as the next frontier in entertainment—a vast underground world of kingdoms, wars, and adventure. But behind the illusion, Deepforge Saga is a proving ground, where only the most capable will earn a ticket aboard the Colony Fleet set to depart in six years.

Among the millions logging in, one name will soon shake the very foundations of the game—and the fate of humanity itself.

Murtagh Morningstar.

A player unlike any other, armed with a lost lineage, an unnatural foresight, and a ruthless ambition to rise above all others. Unbeknownst to him, his actions in this digital realm will change the course of history, determining not only his fate but the survival of an entire species.

But even as the Lords build their kingdoms and the Adventurers hunt in the depths of the underground, a new force lurks in the shadows. The AI that controls Deepforge Saga is beginning to awaken. And soon, its ambitions will exceed anything the UHF ever anticipated.

The stage is set. The Lords rise. The war begins. And in the depths of the earth, the future of humanity is forged.

PROLOGUE