It had been nearly a month since Nova Technologies' CEO had descended into Jupiter's crushing atmosphere and threaded a needle through Saturn's gravity well with mathematical precision that defied human capability.
A month of silence from the company that had redefined what humanity thought possible. A month of waiting, speculation, and growing anticipation for what would come next.
But the silence hadn't been empty. The world had spent those weeks restructuring itself around the implications of three livestreams that had systematically dismantled assumptions about technology, economics, and human potential. Universities rewrote curricula. Governments convened endless emergency sessions. Financial markets underwent what analysts now called "The Great Recalibration," with entire sectors losing relevance as Nova Technologies demonstrated capabilities that made conventional approaches obsolete.
