While Gabe relives history, in virtual reality on a starship, what is real?
Young Gabe Oliveri leaves Earth to colonize last-chance planet Rayas. The colony is privately funded by Mexican descendants of California’s El Grande – the Big One.
Rayas bootstraps its terraforming talent from teenagers. Their plastic minds will spend the interstellar years of stasis in a virtual reality academy.
But Gabe’s a physical guy. Cast among genius, what can he aspire to?
The history role-playing game captures his heart. Air is breathable under a clear blue sky, as he relives the Ancient Pueblo culture of New Mexico.
In this game, archaic belief fuels real magic. Dreamer Gabe proves a natural mathemagician.
But what is the game’s agenda?
Next campaign, Gabe leads a team to experience El Grande itself, the California catastrophe that birthed his people. Can he reach safety in Mexico? Before the game AI drives him crazy?
Readers will recognize Gabe from Booth’s Thrive space colony scifi, and California’s demise from her Feral America dystopian series. This LitRPG time travel adventure features weak to strong progression, with gritty space colony and overpowered artificial intelligence.