LAUNCH DAY, 6:00 PM - AURORA CONVENTION CENTER
The Aurora Convention Center's Innovation Hall was designed to impress. Twenty-meter-high ceilings. Holographic projection systems built into every surface. Five thousand seats arranged in a gentle amphitheater facing the main stage. Every seat had a perfect view.
Tonight, every single seat was filled.
Mark Webb, a tech journalist for New Eden Tech Review, arrived ninety minutes early and still barely found a seat. He'd covered product launches for fifteen years. Apple, Tesla, QuantumOS, NexCore—he'd seen them all.
This felt different.
The energy in the hall was electric. People weren't just curious—they were excited. Conversations buzzed around him.
"—downloaded Aether OS last week and my 10 year old laptop runs better than when I had it brand new—"
