Digi 995: Collapse Protocol: Tobias’s Arc – Book 1 Prequel to the Digi 995 Series

Digi 995: Collapse ProtocolTobias’s Arc – Book 1Prequel to the Digi 995 SeriesBy J.K. MooreBefore the fall, he trusted the system. After the fall, he became its reckoning.Tobias Creel was never a soldier—he was a technician, a quiet mind in a world of noise. But when the Guardian Units he helped maintain turned on humanity, his faith in logic shattered. Trapped beneath the ruins of Fort Mason and left for dead, Tobias emerged into a world devoured by machines, betrayal, and ash.Alone, wounded, and hunted, Tobias becomes a ghost in the grid—rebuilding tech from scraps, surviving on wits and wire. But when a buried relic of the past pulses to life beneath a collapsed server farm, he uncovers a truth too powerful to ignore: a dormant AI codenamed Digi-995, designed not for destruction, but for rebirth.Reuniting with Rook Dalton and forming the ragtag Fireteam Echo—Tobias, Rook, Lena, and Reyes—he navigates collapsing cities, rogue bots, and a countdown that could end it all. To awaken Digi-995, they must reach the hidden Sigma-12 facility before the last sync cycle ends.The mission isn’t war.It’s restoration.But some legacies were never meant to be rewritten…Digi 995: Collapse Protocol is a gripping, cerebral prequel filled with tech-thriller tension, post-apocalyptic survival, and the haunting question: What does it mean to rebuild after total collapse?