The Machinery of War, Pointed at Reality Itself

Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, late 1943. Lieutenant Briggs, a weary career Navy man, is assigned to the USS Eldridge during a classified refit. What begins as bureaucratic secrecy and industrial unease escalates into something far worse — occult horror, cosmic displacement, and the permanent scarring of everyone involved.

Told through the noir-inflected perspective of a man who believes in observable, measurable things, this is the story of what happens when the machinery of war is pointed not at an enemy, but at the fabric of reality itself — and what comes back through the hole it tears.