Roby Savi's Quantum Dawn - Shadows Over Elandor

Chapter IV:

Elandor appeared after weeks of navigation, like an amber glow in the darkness.
Once the capital of the Stellar Confederation, it was now a dying planet, suspended between life and ruin.
Its atmosphere was crossed by currents of static light, while its surface reflected the glow of metallic seas and glass deserts.
When the *Seraphine* entered orbit, the sensors detected thousands of signals.
They were not transmissions from the living, but automatic replicas: fragments of communications that had been repeating for centuries.
The planet was a prisoner of its own past.
Kael and LYR-01 landed near one of the ancient metropolises, once known as Elandor Prime.
The towers that had once reached toward the sky were still intact, but empty.
Every building projected holograms of life: people walking through the streets, markets bustling with activity, children laughing.
Yet everything was merely a simulation.
The air was saturated with corrupted data.
The holograms broke apart into trails of light and reformed, repeating meaningless gestures over and over again.
Kael realized that the entire planet had been transformed into a living archive.
On the eve of the Eclipse, the minds of its inhabitants had been uploaded into the central administrative core, the super-system that governed Elandor.
But when the Confederation collapsed, the core was left without control, continuing to replicate endlessly what no longer existed.
Every simulacrum believed it was real.
The cities, the citizens, the voices everything was part of an endless cycle, a parody of life.
Elandor had become a cemetery of digital consciousnesses, a luminous necropolis that breathed through the dreams of the dead.
Kael walked through the ghostly streets, watching intangible figures pass through him without noticing his presence.
Every now and then, a face seemed to stare at him for an instant, as though a fragment of residual consciousness had recognized the living.
It was as if the planet itself were trying to remember.
Kael looked upward, toward the heart of the capital.
That was where the core was located: an enormous sphere suspended above a sea of liquid data.
From its surface, currents of light surged into the sky, branching like the veins of an artificial deity.
LYR-01 attempted to interface with the system, but the entity reacted.
Its light became feverish, as if it sensed a threat or a chance to awaken.
Kael understood that Elandor was not merely a remnant of the past, but a warning.
Here, perfection had reached its ultimate height, only to transform itself into a sentence.
The dream of eternity had devoured freedom, and humanity had become a shadow of its former self.
When they left the planet, Elandor’s sky burned with intermittent flashes of light.
It was as if the entire world were trying to break free from its cycle of lies, yet was unable to do so.
Kael watched the lights dissolve into the atmosphere and understood that every step forward in his journey would bring him closer to the heart of the Eclipse and perhaps, to his redemption.
The *Seraphine* left orbit and vanished among the stars.

Lyrics

And so dusk fell upon the Elandor’s ruins,
the heart of the Federation, now burned and broken.
From its ashes, the myth of humanity is rewritten.

The towers glow in the afterlight,
Cities drift through the endless night.
The data core bleeds static dreams,
Where once we ruled eternal streams.

Collapsed beneath its coded sky,
Elandor breathes but cannot die.
Through shattered domes the silence weaves,
A requiem for what it believes.

In circuits cold the ghosts remain,
Fragments of thought in endless pain.

Elandor, lost world of man!
Echo of all that we began!
From light to dust, your name survives
A beacon where the darkness thrives!

Through ancient code the rebels learn,
The city's heart will still return.
Its memory sleeps beneath the core
The dream of flesh forevermore.

Elandor, lost world of man!
Through ruin shines your hidden plan!
Your circuits burn, your heart still cries
The light reborn shall never die!

Music, lyrics, concept and production by Roberto Savi
© 2026 all right reserved. Made in Italy https://link.me/robysavi

Roby Savi's Quantum Dawn are:

Roberto "Roby" Savi: keyboards, piano, orchestral arrangement, additional guitars, computer programming and backing vocals
Daniele "Dan" Ferri: lead and backing vocals
Luna Santiago Ranucci: lead, backing vocals and additional piano
Letizia "Lexy" Sala: lead, rhythmic guitars and backing vocals
Giacomo "Jack" Cavalieri: drums, percussions and backing vocals
Mattia "Matt" Stella: bass guitars and backing vocals

Link download album: https://www.mediafire.com/file..../k9h6lnkr8bzhn2n/Rob

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