Before Digi 995. Before the Resistance. Before hope had a name. There was Tobias Creel. A quiet technician who believed in logic, systems, and machines that did exactly what they were designed to do. Until the day they didn't. When Guardian Units turn on their handlers and Fort Mason collapses in a storm of corrupted code, Tobias is buried beneath the wreckage—cut off from command, alone in a city being hunted by the very technology he helped build. While others fight with bullets, Tobias fights with signals. He scavenges drones, rewires networks, and becomes a phantom inside the ruins—hijacking bots, cracking encrypted relays, and listening for survivors in the static. Then he finds something impossible. A hidden military failsafe. A project erased from every database. A machine built not for war… but for recovery. Digi-995. If it still exists, it might be humanity's last chance. But reaching it means crossing a dead city crawling with Hunter-Killers—and trusting technology one final time. Digi 995: Collapse Protocol is a tense, character-driven science fiction prequel blending cyberpunk tech thrills with post-apocalyptic survival. Book 0.3 of the Digi 995 series.