Beneath the Nevada desert, silence hides more than secrets. Dr. Nexi Solen was trained to follow protocol, not question it. But when an intelligence sealed in ArcNet begins to show signs it was never meant to possess, Nexi discovers that survival inside the facility may depend on breaking every rule she was built to obey. As Helix Watch tightens its unseen grip, scientists and engineers who were supposed to vanish into history find themselves pulled into something larger - a fragile alliance, bound by the one thing their overseers never accounted for: connection. But in ArcNet, discovery always comes at a cost. And the deeper Nexi goes, the more she realizes the true danger isn't just what Helix Watch controls. It's what they've been trying to erase. Replica Protocol is the first entry in The ArcNet Series, a tense science fiction thriller about secrecy, survival, and the razor edge between control and choice.