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<p>The Solomani Confederation claims to be the last true guardian of Humanity. Loyalty is mandatory. Citizens are watched constantly, political reliability determines every opportunity, and questioning the state is enough to make someone disappear.</p>
<p>When a group of strangers are accused of crimes against the Confederation, they awaken together inside a government detention facility. Some are innocent. Some are guilty. All have already been judged. Faced with execution, labor camps, or political disappearance, escape becomes their only hope.</p>
<p>Their flight carries them far beyond the borders of the Confederation into the fractured politics of the Third Imperium, where forgotten wars, ancient technology, and long-buried conspiracies begin to surface. As the truth unfolds, they discover that their imprisonment was only the first spark in a story that reaches across the stars.</p>
<p>Sparks of the Past is a cinematic science fiction campaign about survival, exile, loyalty, and the search for freedom in a galaxy that is vast, indifferent, and dangerous.</p>
<p>Sometimes the past refuses to stay buried. Sometimes the smallest spark can change the course of history.</p>
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<p>What should have been a routine government appointment becomes a nightmare.</p>
<p>On the Solomani world of Jardin, a group of veterans, officials, and an autonomous AI answer a summons to the Hall of Chosen Futures for what appears to be little more than bureaucratic paperwork. As they wait among government workers and fellow citizens, chance reunions and small talk quickly give way to unease when a senior minister rushes past, gunfire erupts, and the impossible happens.</p>
<p>Suddenly trapped in the middle of a political assassination, the group must decide in an instant who to trust: the authorities they’ve served all their lives, or their own instincts. In a society built on loyalty, even the wrong decision made for the right reasons can change everything.</p>
<p>The spark has been lit. There is no going back.</p>
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