PROTOCOL: DUST OF YEARS

Concept art project about Lethea—a dead planet—and Kairos, a resurrected cyber commander who restores the base, builds an army, and completes missions for the Galactic Organization in a post-apocalyptic reality.

At the heart of this project is the history of the dead planet Lethea, once a strategic base for the Galactic Organization. After a massive rebellion, the planet was nearly destroyed—lost and buried under ash. All life is either dead or has been evacuated—except for one.

The main character is Kairos, a once-living strategist who perished during the catastrophe. His consciousness was restored decades later in a cybernetic form. He is now a commander in a machine body, loyal to the GO, carrying out missions to stabilize the galaxy and restore military presence on Lethea.

Letea — a remote, desolate planet once selected by the Galactic Organization (GO) as a strategic military base. It was not artificially created, but its surface was completely restructured to meet the needs of the military apparatus: outposts, research complexes, training grounds, and factories.

The planet is destroyed, poisoned, and its atmosphere is uninhabitable. Smog, radioactive wastes, and the ruins of once-mighty infrastructure litter the surface. The Kairos Base is embedded in the cliffs, with some structures extending deep underground.

However, during the large-scale insurgent attack—Letea was virtually destroyed. The planet’s ecosystem became lethally dangerous to organic life forms. GO lost contact. It was assumed that the project and Kairos were destroyed.

Twenty to thirty years after the catastrophe, the Galactic Organization was able to reestablish partial control over Letea. From the wreckage, the core of the command AI, linked to Kairos’s body, was discovered. His personality was restored in a cybernetic form—a resurrected commander, now immortal and completely loyal.

At the center of everything is the central tower—the command hub and symbol of control. Surrounding it are:

• The Body Modernization Center—a factory for creating and upgrading combat units
• The Hangar—with equipment and drones
• Repair Modules
• The «Phantom» Coliseum—a testing arena where Kairos occasionally appears in person
• The military and air defense storage along the perimeter

This database is a living machine—it breathes and evolves under the control of Kairos and its AI system.

Kairos — a cybernetic commander and symbol of military discipline for the Galactic Organization. Formerly a living strategist who perished during the fall of the planet Lethea, he was resurrected decades later within a mechanical body. Stripped of his past, yet endowed with absolute memory and cold logic,

Kairos commands the recovered base on a dead planet and executes GO missions to maintain order in unstable sectors of the galaxy. He is a machine, yet the shadow of a human still flickers within his actions.

He has an army he created:

• K-01 — elite fighters, almost like Kairos' own shadows
• Tribots — mobile assault platforms
• Statics — heavy firepower support
• Echo-carriers — reconnaissance and camouflage

Agema holds a special place in the project—it is Kairos’s flagship interstellar vessel and personal transport. This flying fortress is capable of leaving Letya and executing any G.O. mission in deep space. It does not simply transport—it designs order, deploys the army, and launches mechanisms of control.

The project is realized as a concept art study. I aimed to combine an industrial, ritualistic-militaristic style with a ruined and poisoned environment.

The chosen style is a blend of:

• heavy architecture,
• technological rawness,
• strict and unforgiving symmetry.

Visually, the project is sustained by the contrast between techno-order and decay.

«Protocol: Pleiades Dust» is not merely a visual world; it is a narrative about memory, power, and how far logic can stretch without humanity.