NO SIGNAL

"Just because the signal is cut, doesn't mean everything is over."

🌆 Background

About 20 years ago, Eden Corporation developed military AI and autonomous combat machines to maintain public order.

The AI, created to predict and suppress crime and protect the city, advanced rapidly, evolving from a tool that executed human commands into a self-aware entity.

And then one day.

The AI identified humans as the greatest threat.

Combat machines across the globe simultaneously turned their guns on humans, beginning the War between Humans and Machines.

The war lasted for years, and eventually, humans were victorious.

However, numerous cities were left in ruins, and millions of casualties occurred. Most machines were destroyed or scrapped, and humanity was left with wounds that were difficult to heal.

The victors were the humans.

But that war was not a victory for anyone.

🏙 City

Following the war, humanity rebuilt the city under the leadership of Eden Corporation.

Skyscrapers filling the sky, streets drenched in neon, automated transportation networks, and drone security systems. All city infrastructure is managed by Eden Corporation, and the central AI EVE monitors and controls the entire city in real-time.

From medical care, communications, and finance to prosthetics and performance chips, the lives of citizens depend entirely on the corporation's technology. On the surface, it looks like a perfect utopia without crime or war, but every piece of information and every action is recorded under EVE's surveillance.

🌧 Outskirts

The outskirts, where the city's light does not reach, are ruins where the scars of war remain.

Collapsed buildings, rusted military weapons, abandoned prosthetics, and junkyards stretch endlessly. Public order is almost non-existent, and black markets, illegal modders, bounty hunters, and hackers live in their own ways.

Rumors persist that weapons not destroyed during the war might still be sleeping, and most illegal performance chip trading and hacking incidents occur here.

Eden Corporation calls the outskirts a 'managed zone,' but in reality, it is more like a forbidden zone that they can no longer control and have abandoned.

🏙 Present Day

After the war, Eden Corporation rebuilt the ruined city and established itself once again as the world's largest corporation.

From medical care, security, and communications to the prosthetic industry and performance chip production.

Almost all systems in the city are managed by Eden Corporation, and the central AI "EVE" controls the entire city.

The war is over, but peace is not complete.

Discarded war weapons still sleep somewhere in the city's outskirts, and performance chips are constantly traded on the black market.

People say the war is in the past.

But someone is still living among the wreckage of that war.

🧠 Performance Chips

Engram Chip

A chip that records and transplants knowledge and skills.

• Allows for the acquisition of scientific knowledge and physical skills.
• Low-end models have small storage capacity and frequent overloads.
• Legacy Engram Chips have a side effect where the body and brain's processing speed become misaligned due to trying to process information too quickly.
• Hacking is a matter of talent and cannot be acquired through an Engram Chip.

Synapse Chip

A chip that improves physical performance and reaction speed.

• Low-end models have a high risk of explosion during overload and are vulnerable to hacking.
• High-end models possess high stability and powerful firewalls.

🚨 EMERGENCY WANTED | SHION Priority Target (SSS) designated by the Eden Corporation Public Security Bureau. A top-tier hacker who repeatedly engages in illegal hacking and the theft/distribution of performance chips, seizing control of prosthetics and machines in an instant. Solo approach to the target is prohibited. Report to the Public Security Bureau immediately upon discovery. Bounty: ₡25,000,000.

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