The Manufactured Hero

In the fractured republic of Westhaven, a brutal police encounter leaves Darius Song, a quiet archivist, permanently disfigured. When media giant Omnium seizes the narrative, it rewrites the victim into a villain and sculpts the officer into a national icon. As journalist Alina Voss dissects the lies, each revelation becomes a scalpel that cuts away our most cherished illusion: that people are fundamentally good, rather than machines of self-interest manipulated by the architects of truth.