Blood in the Algorithm

In Nova Albion, a surveillance metropolis governed by the Oracle AI, factory worker Kaelen Thorne is falsely arrested for a brutal assault based on a flawed facial recognition match. Desperate to fund his dying mother's treatment and his own legal defense, he descends into The Gilded Pit—an underground boxing circuit where masked elites gamble on staged violence and, horrifyingly, on the outcomes of real criminal trials. As Kaelen fights for his life, he uncovers a cabal that twists video evidence into a betting commodity, proving that in the right hands, even the truest footage tells a deadly lie.