When Platinum Rusts is a biopunk dystopian fantasy about the fragile beginnings of a future we never meant to enter.In the ruins of a failed colonisation project, Eternum, Doctor Selest Dvali leads a desperate experiment: to engineer a new kind of human. Not from ambition, but from fear, duty, and love.With only scraps of forgotten technology and a few fractured allies, Selest attempts to build loaders-genetically and technologically enhanced beings, strong enough to survive civilisation's end.But the deeper she delves, the more the lines blur. Ethics erode. Mistakes multiply. And every failure leaves a permanent scar.Set fifty years before the Who is Vist series, this novel stands alone to uncover the buried legacy and the secret origin of Vist.