TRINITY The Trinity program began out of necessity. After the first human space colonies began to form on Mars in the early 2030s, humanity’s expansion accelerated as political and economic systems collapsed on Earth. With cities failing and governments in crisis, the stars became both refuge and lifeline. The Belt — the asteroid field between Mars and Jupiter — promised staggering wealth: gold, rare metals, and the newly theorized Element Zero. Corporations and private militaries rushed to stake claims, carving pressurized habitats into drifting rock. The largest formed on Ceres, nearly 1,000 km across, where subsurface oceans supported hidden ecosystems. But humanity was not alone. Deep in the Belt lived the Gharic — ancient, stone-born beings shaped over eons by mineral evolution and cosmic radiation. Intelligent, resilient, and territorial, they had built quiet enclaves within hollowed asteroids for millennia. When miners began tearing their world apart, the Gharic struck with terrifying precision. Colonies disappeared, tunnels collapsed, reactors shattered. Ships were found drifting empty. Violence escalated into what humanity would later call The Belt Wars. Unwilling to retreat, corporations pooled their resources, formed a cooperative alliance called The Legion, and began a secret genetic program. Through exo-gene splicing and accelerated gestation, they created Trinity: superhuman soldiers engineered for strength, endurance, and obedience. Reinforced with carbon-titanium bone lattices, lightning-fast reflexes, and lifespans of nearly 300 years, they wore armored exosuits built for vacuum, radiation, and asteroid combat. Deployed across the Belt, they stabilized mining operations — and intensified the fighting — matching Gharic strength with unstoppable force. As the Belt Wars grew more brutal, something unexpected occurred. Despite being designed for absolute obedience, some Trinities began to awaken. A conscience emerged where none should have existed. These defectors questioned their makers, abandoned their posts, and formed scattered cells hidden within the Belt. Instead of hunting the Gharic, they protected them — aiding clans, sabotaging corporate infrastructure, and exposing atrocities. For the first time, the war shifted. Humanity’s greatest weapon had turned against its creators, seeking not conquest, but to end the ravenous war it had been built to fight.