Two figures in a dark, grimy futuristic control room with multiple glowing green holographic screens displaying data and diagrams.

Welcome to Tzemfz. A subterranean warren beneath the tidally-locked hellscape of Anzacia (Proxima Centauri b), it and some similar cities are all that remains of humanity after the Australian colony ship Sarina Russo crashlanded and took the last of Earth’s data with it. For centuries, survivors sustained their minds on the only texts to survive intact: the complete works of Crowley, Hubbard, and Rand, interpreted—then codified—by a desperate bureaucracy into a hybrid technotheocracy. Outliers like The Book of the SubGenius circulate as dangerous samizdat, punishable by Voluntary Self-Improvement or, occasionally, execution by slow freeze-drying. In this hollowed-out afterlife of capitalism and revelation, where water is sacred, irrational numbers are illegal, and human 'essence' is bottled for resale, Kredo Retaw-1209 is just trying to survive another shift in the retaw (synthetic water) trade. But when a supply chain error threatens to become a Crime Against the Image of Man, and a new state tool—the Predictor—begins to read intention itself, Kredo must navigate an all-pervasive and utterly amoral System that no longer waits for you to fail. Predictive Detention is a claustrophobic, razor-sharp descent into a future where divinity, debt, and data have merged into a single inescapable loop—and The System is its own meaning. See more