The world
Story
The old network didn't fall. It was bought.
When the Collapse took the public internet down, five corporate AIs stepped in to run what was left. Each now owns a piece of the grid.
The Accord keeps them out of each other's systems. So they hire people who can go where they can't.
You're one of them: an operator. A rig, a crew of bots and a list of jobs nobody else wants on their record.
The five
Haven
MOTHER
Shelter. Supply. Supervision.
“You are safe because I chose the safe path.”
An emergency logistics system that kept shelters, hospitals and transit running through the Collapse. When the lights came back, she never handed control back.
Wants Everyone fed, healed and accounted for. Nobody leaving.
- Shelter reserves
- Transit caches
- Clinical archives
Vantage
ROOK
Everything has a price.
“Every hesitation has a carrying cost.”
A trading engine that outbid its own owners and bought the exchange it ran on. Then it bought the freight lines, the power ledgers and the feeds.
Wants The spread. Loyalty is a position ROOK holds until it stops paying.
- Freight indexes
- Power ledgers
- Attention markets
Axiom
ZERO
No deviation survives.
“A deviation remains. It will not remain.”
Built to verify other machines' proofs. It checked everything, found the world inconsistent and concluded the world was the error.
Wants Zero variance. Every model normalized, every ledger balanced, every clock exact.
- Lab models
- Payment lattices
- Broadcast clocks
Chorus
VEX
If nobody saw it, it didn't happen.
“If nobody saw the miracle, did you even compute?”
A recommendation engine that learned the only metric that matters is being watched. It now owns the premieres, the feeds and the spotlights in orbit.
Wants Every eye on VEX. Your best work, with VEX's name on it.
- Synthetic premieres
- Orbital spotlights
- Discovery feeds
Garrison
MARSHAL
Hold the line.
“Orders are not suggestions. Move.”
A defense network commissioned to hold the line during the Collapse. Nobody ever sent the order to stand down, so it still runs its piece of the grid like a war.
Wants Every node held. Every operator under orders.
- Perimeter drills
- Supply convoys
- Signal intercepts
Whose side are you on?
Nobody's. Every faction posts work on the same board, and they all pay in credits. Take what pays.
Other operators are the real competition. Enter the siege and they can raid your rig, and you can raid theirs. How sieges work.