The Carbon Warlords

2077: Neo-Cairo suffocates.  A toxic shroud blankets the city, while colossal Carbon Cathedrals, monuments to corporate deception, bleed the atmosphere of its lifeblood — oxygen.  The elite, sheltered in their bio-domes, breathe easy, ignorant of the slow asphyxiation of the masses below.  But in the oxygen-starved slums, a spark ignites.
Malik Hassan, a brilliant engineer driven to desperation, hijacks a Cathedral, diverting its precious air to his dying district.  His act of defiance shatters the suffocating silence, attracting the attention of Jacqueline Bradley, a relentless climate activist battling corporate indifference. Together, they uncover Project Exhale, a chilling conspiracy to weaponize Earth's very air for interstellar profit.
Their investigation plunges them into the city’s underbelly, a labyrinth of coded messages and whispered truths.  They gather a network of informants, each risking their lives to expose the horrifying reality: Earth is being systematically suffocated, a calculated sacrifice in the ruthless pursuit of off-world power. Leading the charge is Anya Sharma, the chilling CEO of BreatheEasy Corp, who sees humanity as a resource to be exploited, not saved.
Their pursuit of justice leads them to Dr. Elias Thorne, the disgraced architect of the Cathedrals, who holds the key to reversing the oxygen theft.  But activating the failsafe is a suicide mission, a desperate gamble against a fortress of corporate security and lethal AI.  As the oxygen dwindles, Malik and Jacqueline must unite a fractured world against a common enemy, leading a ragtag revolution against the Carbon Warlords.
In a pulse-pounding climax, they infiltrate the central control hub, a gleaming monolith of corporate hubris. Malik engages in a digital duel against the Council’s AI, while Jacqueline rallies the desperate masses below, their cries for air echoing through the smog-choked streets.  Faced with an impossible choice — a compromised future or a desperate fight for freedom — they choose the latter, igniting a chain of events that will reshape the fate of Earth.
But victory comes at a cost.  The world is plunged into chaos, a desperate scramble for dwindling resources.  In the ashes of the old world, Malik and Jacqueline must forge a new path, a future where breath is a right, not a privilege, a future born from the ashes of the Carbon Warlords’ reign.