A Return to Form

Dreaming of Liberty and Titanium

Missor ended his schooling the day he was legally allowed to do so. French and seventeen, he decided there was nothing the modern world had to teach him. He exited the system and the era he refused to be shaped by. Seventeen years later, he is a self-taught sculptor and a bootstrapped entrepreneur vying to build a Prometheus of titanium for the launchpads of Starbase. While the West tears down its heroes and forgets its Gods, the Atelier Missor is forging them anew. Symbols are power. They are not just decorations, but also instruments of memory and anchors of identity. Across the West,…

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• Florent Tavernier

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