Lore

Stolen Caduceus File_01: SGZ-Ω / N-IX

File_N-IX_RECTIFIED_Final ⟡ CADUCEUS ⟡ APEX DIVISIONIN PAIN, WE ASCEND File: RECTIFIED File — SGZ-Ω / N-IXAccess Level: OMEGA-PRIMEProtocol: FAMILY LOCKClassification: RECTIFIED // BUILD 2.7 [SECTION 1: IDENTIFICATION] Code name: N-IXCivilian designation: “Nyx”Estimated age: 17Genetic Type: Apex Prototype — Derived Stargazer LineageViral status: NegativeSupervision: Dr. Smile [ID: ████████] [SECTION 2: ORIGIN OF THE PROTOTYPE] “Subject N-IX …

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Barcelona, The Weight of Tears

Barcelona became the largest city the Iberian Peninsula had ever known, then collapsed into a corporate transit zone before Astral Twilight reduced it to salt flats and ruins.

Life is a Dark Fishbowl

Whether you’ve yet to read Angio Dreams (in our free fiction library) or you’re looking for a bit of information on its themes, the following should help expand your understanding and how it fits into the universe. One has to imagine the daughter in Angio Dreams is trapped in a flat circle of time. Nameless …

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Tsuyomei: The Last City

Tsuyomei is the last standing city on Earth, protected by the Ikari Line and shaped by corporate power, Gumi clans, buried ruins, and the promise of escape off-world.

On the Bunker Walls

“They think survival is the endgame. That if you’re still breathing, still functional, still warm, then you’ve won. That’s propaganda. A very old kind of oil poured in the eyes. Running since the Dark Immemorial, since before the networks consolidated, before body contracts got normalized, and before death stopped meaning freedom. “I’ve watched people survive …

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The First Death

// Accessing Training Archive// Monitoring…// Ident: xcv.Splash_Unit_zz// Passphrase: mPovee.02.RDx// Surveillance Active.// Access Granted. Conflict E.XXXX.X/Theta_Oxidata.cr8 Internal Classification: EDF_Black_Recovery Fragment The Corpse War was a fratricidal conflict between all of the major corporations and their subsidiary factions, holdings, and assets. Chief among these were the corpse units—reanimated laborers and soldiers—who themselves became the targets of covert …

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San Diego: A Vision Made Manifest

After Astral Twilight and the Fire Tide, San Diego becomes a flooded reconstruction zone where XenVenri turns the ruins of Old Town into material for the future.

An Ancient Omen Arrives

“… WZE-0855 Draknel hung in the sky, a globular nightmare staring down at him hiding beneath a lonely shadow.” Little more than passing neighbors in the void, Kyn’hnul and Nyn’vel become entwined in each other’s gravity. An event no one thought possible. The passing celestial does just enough to make the two planets inseparable. Nyn’vel, …

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Street Combat

Street combat in ChromaSpyke is messy, local, and rarely clean, shaped by cybernetics, gangs, insurgency, reputation, and the brutal architecture of urban life.

Uroran Arbiters

The Uroran Arbiters investigate, judge, and enforce across ChromaSpyke’s corporate boundaries, backed by multiple sponsors and overwhelming military force.