When the Domes Began to Hunger

The Domes were never meant to starve. They were built to last forever, sealed ecosystems

of control, efficiency, and obedience. But systems designed to dominate eventually

devour themselves. Thirty years after the last forced migrations—after the outside world

was emptied at gunpoint and families were marched beneath white arches they would never exit—the

Domes began to fail. Soil thinned. Protein vats spoiled. Algorithms rationed hope down to calories.

What had once been citizens became inventory. What had once been order became panic

wrapped in policy. When the hunger crossed a threshold, the Domes turned outward—not as saviors,

but as predators. Doors that had never opened unsealed at night. Figures emerged,