The New Albion Tragedy

In the smog-choked industrial city of Ironhaven, a factory owner is found murdered. Arthur Kraus, an ex-convict crushed once before by the cold machinery of the law, becomes the prime suspect. As the investigation unfolds, multiple witnesses offer wildly contradictory memories of the crime—a Rashomon-like dissonance that the arrogant bureaucracy refuses to acknowledge. Blinded by procedural arrogance and a draconian habitual-offender statute, the legal system funnels Arthur toward the gallows. In the end, truth drowns in a sea of subjective lies, revealing the pitiless heart of a system that values its own certainty over justice.