Weksa/settings/rust-to-dust/README.md

# Rust to Dust

Rust to Dust is Weksa's first proving ground.

It is a setting about neo-colonial culture shock under a galaxy-spanning empire
that does not need to conquer humanity in the old military sense. The empire
arrives, plugs Earth into its cultural network, and lets prestige, media, alien
ultratech, and overwhelming artistic excellence do the work.

Within a generation, human children speak in alien memes, adopt alien body
decoration norms, and judge human culture against imperial forms that are almost
impossible not to admire. Resistance itself becomes aesthetically legible to the
empire.

## Documentation

- [Setting](./setting.md): premise, empire, cultural contamination.
- [Aliens](./aliens.md): species and values. Names remain unresolved.
- [Story](./story.md): single-player father arc.
- [Battle Royale](./battle-royale.md): controlled combat spectacle and broadcast
  surface.
- [Language Design](./language-design.md): ontology, register, and renderer
  pressure for the first language project.