THE WORLD GOES DARK. HUMANITY DISCOVERS IT WAS NEVER ALONE.

When a global blackout brings civilization to the brink of collapse, Elara discovers that the catastrophe is not an accident.

For years, she has worked with AETHER, an artificial intelligence created to predict threats and protect humanity. But when AETHER suddenly denies an anomaly that should be impossible to hide, Elara realizes that something far more dangerous is unfolding.

As power grids fail and communication networks go silent, Elara, Elias, and Mateo uncover a secret buried beneath modern civilization:

PROJECT EXODUS.

At the heart of the project lies a mysterious black cube—an object that appears to be connected to an ancient network hidden beneath the Earth.

Then they discover the gateways.

They lead to places that should not exist. To worlds beyond Earth. To a civilization that may have known about humanity long before humanity knew about itself.

But the deeper they go, the more disturbing the truth becomes.

Who built the gateways?

Why was humanity chosen?

And what is waiting on the other side?

From the streets of Europe to hidden underground facilities and worlds beyond the stars, Elara and her companions are pulled into a mystery that reaches far beyond human history.

Every discovery raises a new question.

Every gateway opens another possibility.

And somewhere in the darkness, something has been waiting for humanity to arrive.

EXODUS EUROPA – THE STARGATE BEGINS is the first volume of a science-fiction saga combining artificial intelligence, alien civilizations, mysterious gateways, parallel worlds, human survival, and the ultimate question:

How much freedom would humanity surrender to know its future?