While the executive boardrooms of legacy shipping conglomerates calculated their liquidation numbers, the reaction across the rest of society was far from uniform.
The announcement of Nova Express had pulled back the curtain on an unavoidable, terrifying truth: human labor, across entire foundational industries, was no longer required.
On LucidNet, where over six billion users gathered daily, the comment feeds and community spaces fractured into an intense, ideological civil war.
For the second time since Nova Technologies had introduced the Lucid device, the digital crowd was no longer speaking with a single, unified voice of uncritical praise.
The platform was sharply divided between diehard Nova loyalists and a rapidly growing, fiercely hostile opposition.
On one side stood the techno-fundamentalists, individual creators, and free-market zealots who viewed Nova Express as the ultimate liberation of human potential.
