RESO (RESources Optimization)
MAP OF RESO (WARRIORS OF THE LAST DAYS)
RESO is not a regime. It does not preach, parade, or punish in public squares. It calculates.
Buried beneath the ruins of the City and the noise of collapsing systems, RESO operates in corridors where outcomes are decided before anyone feels them. It does not demand belief. It demands efficiency. Lives are reduced to variables. Risk is modeled. Loss is absorbed into projections. Every choice becomes a data point; every hesitation, a deviation to be corrected.
There are no banners here, no sermons. Only light without warmth, rooms without windows, and decisions that ripple outward with surgical precision. RESO does not need to be cruel to be absolute. It optimizes.
Those who enter its sphere discover something more unsettling than violence: indifference refined into architecture. In RESO, the future is not fought over. It is processed.
Reactive Entropic Suppression Operator (RESO):
Also called RESO, it is a quantum computer that runs the entire network of tunnels and habitations that was harnessed by the survivors to optimize and maximize space, resources, food and the population itself.
It’s primary design is fighting decay and entropy. It analyzes the probabilities of events happening every single second, select the best outcome out of all possibilities at any given moment and forces the outcome throughout the network.
Because it is stochastic, it is governed by random variables, probability, and chance, meaning its precise outcome cannot be predicted, often causing minor to severe damages, including death, to the people it is supposed to protect and oversee.
RÉSO
In real life, RESO is Montreal’s vast underground pedestrian network, often called the “Underground City.” Stretching over 30 kilometers, it links metro stations, office towers, universities, hotels, museums, and shopping centers beneath the downtown core. Built gradually beginning in the 1960s alongside the Metro system, it was designed as a climate shield against brutal winters and humid summers.
RESO is not a single tunnel but an interconnected system of corridors, plazas, and commercial spaces. On a February morning, tens of thousands of commuters pass through it without stepping outside. Light filters in from glass atriums. Retail hum replaces traffic noise. Above, the city moves through snow and wind; below, life continues in controlled temperature and curated calm.
It is infrastructure turned into ecosystem: an engineered layer beneath the visible city.
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Stéphane Roy is a lifelong reader and writer with a deep love for science fiction, apocalyptic worlds, and tightly constructed mysteries. This is his first novel. He lives in the Yukon with his dog and his aquarium, where long winters, silence, and wide, sometimes glowing, skies leave plenty of room for imagining the end of the world, and what might come after it. He is also waiting, with cautious optimism, for the aliens to finally reveal themselves and straighten us all out.