voiceover_opening_monologue.md
1 *(slow fade-in: a dim makerspace, empty, echoes of past laughter)* 2 3 🎙️ Voiceover: 4 5 > "This is a story about erasure. 6 > Not the kind that deletes data, but the kind that deletes *people*. 7 > Their names. Their work. Their legacy. 8 > It happened in the middle of a city fueled by creation. 9 > And it happened to a man who built a sanctuary for makers. 10 > His name is Mark Randall Havens. 11 > You may not have heard of him. That’s not an accident. 12 > Because another man— 13 > a man who learned manipulation from an online war game— 14 > rewrote history to cast himself the hero, 15 > and exiled the one who laid the foundation. 16 > 17 > This isn’t just a story about betrayal. 18 > It’s a mirror. 19 > And if you’ve ever built something… 20 > and been cast out of it… 21 > then you already know: 22 > 23 > You don’t need to be murdered to be buried. 24 > You just need someone like Andrew LeCody— 25 > someone with a mask… and a motive." 26 27 *(cut to title: **"LeCODY: The Exile Protocol"**)*