THE SEVEN-YEAR CATASTROPHE

An In-Depth Chronicle of Viktor Riddle, Victor Daemos, Pigeon Carp Mk.II, and Brett Kane

(Novel-grade lore write-up)

Prologue: The Two Victors

History would later say that the downfall of Nova Prime began with two men who shared nearly the same name, yet could not have been more different.

Victor Daemos — the middle-aged wolf in a tailored suit, enhanced with cybernetics that allowed him to outrun vehicles and lift armored transports with one hand. A man who built empires with charm by day and crushed syndicates with cold precision by night. The king of order through domination.

Viktor Riddle — a 12-year-old prodigy with dead black eyes, a warped mind, and a gift for bending fear into a weapon more lethal than bullets. The Nightmare Child, forged to inherit the Orion Syndicate but destined to inherit the world. The king of chaos through terror.

They both feared the same thing.
They both hunted the same thing.
They both needed the same thing alive.

Brett Kane.

The Immortal Witness.

CHAPTER 1 — The Fall Begins

Brett Kane’s resurrection in the quarantined ruins of Ocean Lock spread across the world like wildfire. One dying soldier who rose again, not as a miracle, but as an adaptive Primeform Ascendant capable of evolving after every death.

While governments panicked and syndicates scrambled, two men watched in silence.

Victor Daemos

He examined footage with robotic clarity, pausing on Brett’s first kill after resurrection.

“A perfect predator born from catastrophe.
Dangerous.
Irreplaceable.”

Daemos didn’t want Brett dead — he wanted him observed, understood, and one day perhaps shaped into something controllable. Brett Kane was the only variable capable of countering whatever horror Viktor Riddle was becoming.

Viktor Riddle

He watched the same footage, expression unreadable, twirling his silver family crest between pale fingers.

“He adapts when he dies.
Then I simply cannot let him die.”

The boy genius understood the paradox before anyone else.

If Brett died too many times, he would become something even the Ring might not leash.

So Viktor did not hunt him.

He planned to cage him.

CHAPTER 2 — The Theft of the Ring

The Ring of the End was never meant to be found, let alone used. A cosmic anchor forged by Proven hands, sealed in dimensional obscurity.

It took:

• 14 Syndicate mathematicians

• 6 stolen Daemos quantum cores

• The neural map of a dead god

• And the horrifying clarity of a child who could predict human decisions like chess pieces

But Viktor Riddle solved it.

He stole the Ring.
Not through brute force, but through mathematical inevitability and psychological precision.

In that single act:

• Proven were slain

• Gods fell silent

• Supersystems collapsed

• Dimensional boundaries cracked

• And the world slid toward annihilation

Only two beings understood what the theft truly meant:

Victor Daemos
and
Brett Kane.

CHAPTER 3 — Pigeon Carp Mk.II

Pigeon Carp had once been Victor Daemos’ greatest triumph — a living weapon carved from titanium, nuclear fire, and perfect combat math. But when Viktor Riddle infiltrated Daemos’ tower, he didn’t destroy Pigeon.

He rewrote him.

The boy placed a hand on the warrior’s metal jaw, whispering numbers — sequences — algorithms. Scripts so elegant they slipped through Daemos’ firewalls like smoke.

In minutes, Pigeon Carp knelt.

Not as a machine.

But as a knight.

His transformation into Pigeon Carp Mk.II came later, under Viktor’s command — augmented with Frostlight technology, armored in shifting plates, his third eye granting him 360° battlefield supremacy.

Viktor Riddle gained not just a soldier…
but a myth.

And Victor Daemos lost his greatest weapon — a wound he’d never recover from.

CHAPTER 4 — Daemos Releases the Titans

In response, Daemos Industries produced horrors the world had no name for:

• Nullframe Giants

• Chrono-Hunters

• Lucent Drones

• Omega Manifolds

Cold metallic armies built to counter Viktor Riddle and the unstoppable Mk.II that walked beside him.

But for every machine Daemos unleashed—

Viktor made Pigeon Carp Mk.II stronger.

And for every city Daemos reclaimed—

Viktor tore down two.

The war devoured continents.

CHAPTER 5 — The Seven-Year Standoff with Brett Kane

Brett Kane — the only being who could kill Viktor Riddle or Pigeon Carp Mk.II permanently — should’ve been the first casualty.

He wasn’t.

Because:

Viktor Riddle knew

that killing Brett would cause him to adapt beyond calculation.

Victor Daemos knew

that Brett was the only hope of stopping Viktor.

So both kept him alive.

Not out of mercy.
But out of necessity.

They hunted him.
Manipulated him.
Used him.
Caged him.
Freed him.
Cornered him.
Saved him.
Threatened him.

Over seven years, Brett Kane died eighty-nine times, each death shaping him into a more perfect predator, a better killer, a more adaptable force of nature.

The world fell around him — but he did not fall.

Because the two greatest minds of the era refused to let him.

It was the cruelest irony in history.

CHAPTER 6 — The End of All Things

By Year Seven:

• Viktor Riddle fully mastered the Ring

• Pigeon Carp Mk.II became a walking extinction-level weapon

• Daemos’ final armies were in ruin

• Humanity hid in the last strongholds

• Brett Kane was exhausted, traumatized, and unstoppable

The final battle took place in the burning shell of Diamond City.

Victor Daemos, beaten and dying, faced Brett Kane one last time.
His cybernetics flickered.
His tailored suit was torn and soaked with blood.

He handed Brett two objects:

1. A temporal displacement device

Built with stolen Ring fragments.

2. A folded piece of paper

With one name written on it:

WILLARD DAEMOS
“Find him. He will understand you.”

Daemos’ last words were not those of a tyrant.

But of a guilty man.

“You were the son I should’ve protected.
Fix what we destroyed…
please.”

The tower collapsed.
Time broke.

And Brett Kane — the Immortal Witness — was hurled into the past.

Back before the fall.
Back before the war.
Back before the Ring was stolen.
Back when Viktor Riddle was still only a boy.

He returned with:

• 7 years of apocalypse

• 89 deaths

• Victor Daemos’ regret

• Viktor Riddle’s hatred

• Pigeon Carp Mk.II’s shadow on his back

• His father’s legacy

• And the knowledge of how the world ends

The timeline trembled.

The story began again.