The Quiet Race to the Domes

RACE TO THE DOMES Money moved first. It always did. Not as cash or numbers on a screen,

but as intent—algorithms rerouting liquidity, assets shedding visibility, ownership dissolving

into trusts, shells, and sovereign corridors. Capital didn’t wait for permission.

It sensed pressure the way animals sense storms. By the time the headlines caught

up, the transfers were already complete. The domes were never advertised as shelters.

That word implied fear. These were safeguards. Continuity zones. Strategic havens

designed to preserve what mattered when systems destabilized—data, influence, leverage,

and the people who controlled them. They were framed as innovation hubs, climate research