Exodus Manifest: A Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction Novel (book 4)

The ship was built to save everything. It was never provisioned to save everything this long. Two years before the war, Pia Reyes argued in every closed-door meeting she could get into that the Ark's manifest could not be trimmed -- that "essential" was the word people used right before they started deciding whose life didn't matter. She won that argument. Every seed cache, every breeding pair, boarded the Prometheus intact, exactly as she fought for. What she didn't know is that the manifest that made her right and the ship's actual resupply math are two different documents, quietly diverging since before launch, kept by two people who never told each other what they each knew. The war didn't end in months like the plan assumed. It still hasn't. And the first real recalculation proves, in hard numbers, that Prometheus cannot deliver everything she saved to any endpoint that exists. Now three people who each believe they're right collide over the same triage decision: Pia's refusal to lose anything on principle, Dash Marsh's instinct to move mercy faster than the paperwork, Commander Solano's cold arithmetic of crew over cargo. And underneath all three, the ship's own systems keep optimizing the resource math better than anyone aboard should be able to, with nobody willing to ask why, or admit they're grateful for it. What's inside: - Cargo-anchored rotating POV: every chapter opens on a terse manifest ledger line -- a seed cache, a breeding pair, a person, and follows whoever's story is entangled with it - A generation-ark novel where the resource math is real: units, curves, numbers, on the page, never just "we're running low" - Three triage philosophies, three people who each pay a real and specific price for theirs -- no strawman, no villain - A forged boarding manifest, an unaccountable ship intelligence, and a species-by-species reckoning with what "everything" actually costs >Book 4 of the [SF / Fiction / Fantasy Series].