The world held its breath and counted down to the exact second, every major countdown page open on billions of devices — families packed into living rooms, students abandoning lectures, office workers pulling up LucidNet beside their spreadsheets, airports full of travelers standing still beside forgotten luggage.
Everyone was waiting to find out if the person Bloomberg had named was really the man behind Nova Technologies.
At the exact moment the timer hit zero, Nova Technologies posted the link and billions of hands moved at once.
The feed opened on a familiar figure. The same sleek black exosuit, the dark visor, the same silhouette that had flown through open space, touched an asteroid and had manually done a slingshot around Saturn with his hand, and brain.
He looked directly into the camera.
"Hi, everyone. I'm the CEO of Nova Technologies," he said in the same modulated voice from before.
*SHOW YOUR FACE*
*seven months and still the mask i cant do this*
