Before · Regional Prelude
Regional Prelude
Twelve regional stories of a world already straining under the civic pressure that makes the system possible.
Hotels, borders, shelters, housing markets, municipal offices, and local communities become places where fear and administrative language collide. These stories reveal the conditions that make NEMOS possible — long before anyone is sent anywhere.
The ensemble
Who you'll read.
Spoiler-safe profiles of the people (and the system) at the center of this book.
Claire Whitby
England · hotel events manager
An events manager whose coastal hotel is contracted, overnight, for asylum accommodation — and a town that was never asked.
1 book · profile →
Mairead Kavanagh
Ireland · retired teacher
A retired schoolteacher and grandmother in a village told, by a notice on a door, that the decision is already made.
1 book · profile →
Salvatore Greco
Italy · island fisherman
A fisherman whose island has become a waiting room for a whole continent — asked to rescue, feed, and witness, then disappear from the decisions.
1 book · profile →
Gareth McKenna
Northern Ireland · bus driver
A bus driver who thought he understood borders and rumor — until an open route becomes a fear and a city turns on itself.
1 book · profile →
Anja Keller
Germany · emergency nurse
A nurse and festival volunteer who believed in public pluralism — until a civic celebration becomes a crime scene.
1 book · profile →
Tomás Cabrera
Spain · port mechanic
A port mechanic and father on an island asked to become the infrastructure for a crisis no one else will physically hold.
1 book · profile →
NEMOS
The system · program, institution, logic
The program behind selection and transfer — present through records, categories, supplies, and absence.
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Reading routes
Ways into this book.
Each route is a role you can ask the AI to take through the records. Pick one to start; switch any time.
What you receive
One download. Every platform.
The records arrive packaged for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and NotebookLM — plus the full record set, a starter prompt, and the Charter.
Open README_FIRST.md, pick your AI platform, and follow the pack tuned to it. No file wrangling — the packs are sized to each platform's limits.