Kincept Tribes
Kincept tribes are matriarchal, lineage-bound crews built around family, memory, shared labor, and loyalty that often runs deeper than any corporate contract.
Lore
See a Cough, Catch a Cold
Right from the beginning of Exile Machine, we’re injected into a place that’s unnatural. The lack of daylight and the struggle for warmth and permanence are disruptive to the circadian rhythm of our mind. Aric, the main character, waits beneath a scarred tree. Hacked and hewn for firewood, the tree is a symbol for everything …
Keiratsu-Gumi, ChromaSpyke’s Yakuza
The Keiratsu-Gumi evolved from ancient syndicate traditions into indispensable corporate intermediaries controlling secrets, violence, logistics, and influence across ChromaSpyke.
The Directorate: The Tide of Oppression
The Directorate sit near the top of ChromaSpyke’s megacorporations, directing fleets, colonies, and subsidiaries while remaining trapped inside the systems they control.
Zero Mods
Zero Mods reject implants, body contracts, and augmented society, surviving through hidden networks, scavenging, agriculture, and the teachings of The Seventeenth Species.
Artificial Intelligence & Intelligence Engines
Artificial intelligence is common in ChromaSpyke, but true Intelligence Engines are rare systems of strategic power controlled by the largest megacorporations.
The Verge
The Verge is one of thousands of deep-space stations at the edge of known space, sustained by traders, voidfishers, aging machinery, and fragile supply lines.
Mechs & Spider Tanks
Mechs and spider tanks in ChromaSpyke are built around utility first, from personal mobility rigs to industrial machines and heavily armed military platforms.
What’s Missing is All Around Us
The Land of Dark Idols — itself, the name of something unused and missing from even the most well-read of audiences, is framed in loss. The unplanned passing of a loved one. The absence of care. As well as the self-determinism of leaving things behind. And the search for the familiar in a new location. …
Astral Twilight: An Instability
Astral Twilight was the corporate-led bombardment that broke Earth’s centralized power and ushered in the reconstruction era across ChromaSpyke.