In the ashes of devastation lies the fragile promise of rebirth, and from that grey, uncertain dawn emerges a world forever changed. Infinite Black: A Grey New World invites you into a post-apocalyptic landscape shaped by the cataclysmic war against the machine hell-world known as The Infinite Black.
Fifteen years have passed since the (almost) species-ending conflict with the machine overlord “Mother,” and humanity now navigates a harsh, remade reality. The world is quieter, more cautious, a dusty rural expanse, where flickering city lights stand distant and wild forest reclaims abandoned townships. Technology still exists, but stripped back, salvaged, resigned to practicality. In this Grey New World, survival hinges on adaptation, on grit, on the subtle balance between despair and hope.
Yet out of ruin arises potential: a blank canvas for new stories, new struggles, new alliances. Here among ruined roads, overgrown towns, and the faded glow of distant skylines, lives can be rebuilt, choices re-examined, and humanity redefined. Infinite Black: A Grey New World is a realm of bleak beauty and fragile possibility, where every dawn holds the weight of what was lost, and the possibility of what might yet be.
The content follows, poetry, short stories, fragments of memory and myth, will chart the contours of this new world. After the nightmares of machine-hell, this is our human aftershock. Welcome to the grey.
Dan Verkys 