I’m an electrical engineer with extensive experience in transportation — automotive and heavy‑duty vehicles — and in industrial automation. I’m writing a hard sci‑fi series and, to keep the stories scientifically and technically plausible, I build simulations and run calculations as part of the process.

A few centuries have passed since humanity turned down a technocratic, shadowed path. Everything is working as a well-tuned machine; on Earth; on orbit; on the Inner Solar system. Could a single, mundane accident in this perfectly tuned system be enough to lift the bonnet and reveal the hidden...