Sovereigns of the Endless Blue

Five years had passed like the cresting of a glorious Mediterranean wave. In the half-decade since Alexander’s birth, the *Delacroix Oceanic Institute* had expanded into a global powerhouse of marine science and conservation. Under Gia’s visionary leadership and Lucas’s unyielding operational backing, the Institute had discovered twelve major ancient shipwrecks, established six protected marine ecological reserves across the Aegean and Ionian seas, and provided fully funded educational fellowships to over…