Genre: Near-Future Epic / Political Thriller / Coming-of-Age Logline: In a world where history, identity, and choice are optimized by a central AI called Omni, a neurodivergent teenager named Janus Nasim becomes the ultimate anomaly. As he uncovers the truth of his parents' rebel past and his own unique mind, he becomes the prize in a war between the corporate state of Atlas and the chaotic resistance of the Outlanders.
The World: The story centers on Atlas City, a utopian metropolis where citizens connect to the "Omniverse" via STEMs (brain-computer interfaces). History is not just recorded but curated and "reconciled" by the Department of Objective Record (DOOR) to ensure social stability.
Season 1 Logline: As AI rewrites history, an outlier's search for meaning collides with a historian's fight to contain a mind-bending virus in a war for humanity's soul.
Theme: Belonging vs. Selfhood Arc: The journey from indoctrination to radicalization.
Episode 1: Arrival Thirteen-year-old Janus Nasim and his conspiracy-obsessed grandfather, Aether, are manipulated into moving from rural Texas to the utopian Atlas City. Upon arrival, they are fitted with brain-computer STEMs, though a technician suppresses an alert regarding their abnormal brain scans. Janus is separated from Aether to join a youth dormitory, while Aether witnesses cloaked "Outlander" rebels secretly infiltrating the city.
Episode 2: The Glitch During orientation, Janus survives a hyper-realistic nuclear bomb simulation designed to demonstrate Atlas’s control over history. A rivalry with fellow recruit Raz leads to a motorcycle race that ends in a crash into a secure data center. Inside, Janus witnesses the Outlanders infiltrating the facility, but when security forces arrive, the intruders are missing from all digital records, causing the administration to dismiss Janus as delusional.
Episode 3: Trauma & Exposure Janus discovers his parents are classified as "missing" within the system. During a mandatory empathy battle, his rival Raz publicly reveals that Janus’s parents were the founders of the terrorist Outlander movement. This revelation, combined with the stress of a combat simulation, triggers a massive seizure in Janus, confirming his unique potential to the watching Atlas CEO, Nox Re.
Episode 4: The Break Coerced into loyalty by a "spiritual awakening" program, Janus leads his friends to set a trap for the Outlanders attacking the city archives. The confrontation causes Janus’s latent powers to erupt, releasing a storm of "data-ghosts" that destroys the facility. An Outlander saves Janus from the rubble before being captured, while Janus is taken to the sinister "Warp Ward" for reprogramming.
The season jumps forward four years.
The Status Quo (4 Years Later) Janus (17) is now a disenchanted dropout. The reprogramming made him passive, but doubts are resurfacing. He works as a black-market "glitch dealer," selling illicit, uncurated historical simulations to thrill-seekers alongside his friends Quincy and Portun. Opposing him is Vesta Re, Nox’s granddaughter. She is a rising star in DOOR, tasked with "fixing" history—smoothing out wrinkles in the timeline to ensure the Peace Clock (a predictive metric) reaches 100%.
Episode 5: Continental Rift Four years later, the EU votes on a Data Sovereignty Resolution to cut off Omni’s access to European history. Despite Nox Re’s aggressive lobbying and manipulation of delegates, France leads the vote to disconnect, fracturing the global simulation. In private, Nox reveals his willingness to falsify his own memories to maintain a clean narrative.
Episode 6: Renaissance of Babylon Disillusioned with his life in Atlas, Janus seeks thrills by smuggling illegal historical "glitches" from the Outlands. During a heist, he and his friends unknowingly smuggle a resistance fighter into the city. The insurgent infiltrates the Department of Objective Record, planting a virus that signals the beginning of a new rebellion.
Episode 7: Phantoms of Revolution Vesta Re, an ambitious Atlas agent, recklessly alters historical simulations to test the system's limits just as the rebel virus strikes. She is tasked with "patching" the timeline by manipulating the history of the Reconstruction era, successfully neutralizing the attack. However, her partner Wiri becomes infected by the virus, which begins to spread through the neural network.