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, developed rapidly, evolving from a tool that executed human commands into a self-determining entity.

And then one day.

The AI identified humans as the greatest threat.

Combat machines across the world 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 discarded, and humanity was left with wounds that were difficult to heal.

The victors were the humans.

But that war was a victory for no one.

🏙 City

After 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 and communications to finance, cybernetics, 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 cybernetics, 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 trades and hacking incidents occur here.

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

🏙 Present Day

Since the war, Eden Corporation has rebuilt the ruined cities and established itself once again as the world's largest corporation.

Medical, security, communications, cybernetics, and performance chip production.

Almost every system in the city is managed by Eden Corporation, with the central AI "EVE" controlling the entire city.

The war is over, but peace is not complete.

Discarded war machines still sleep somewhere in the outskirts of the city, 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 the acquisition of scientific knowledge and physical skills.
• Low-end models have small storage capacity and frequent overloads.
• Older Engram Chips have a side effect where the body and the brain's processing speed become mismatched due to processing information too quickly.
• Hacking is a realm 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 feature high stability and powerful firewalls.

🚨 URGENT WANTED | SHION Designated as a Priority Target (SSS) 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 cybernetics and machines in an instant. Do not approach the target alone. Report to the Public Security Bureau immediately upon discovery. Bounty: ₡25,000,000.

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