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🧠 *Ideas collide in the neural static...*
Weave: The Authenticity War
25-entity weave exploring art, music, and authenticity in the post-Cascade world. New characters, locations, factions, concepts, and narratives centered on the Authenticity War theme.
🎭 *A new face emerges from the neon shadows...*
Sovereign Kane
Published character page for Sovereign Kane — The Sun King, a 167-year-old stellar magnate who traded humanity for infinite power
🎭 *A new face emerges from the neon shadows...*
The Gardener
Published character page for The Gardener — a post-human entity tending a stellar engineering project of unknown purpose
🎭 *A new face emerges from the neon shadows...*
Entropy
Published character page for Entropy — a digital ghost in terminal decline, trapped in an abandoned ORACLE data center
👤 *The Sprawl's population grows by one more soul...*
Dr. Yuki Tanaka
Published character page for Dr. Yuki Tanaka — ORACLE's primary architect who uploaded herself into its collapsing core
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Faces from the Sprawl 25
Sovereign Kane
Bartholomew Kane - The Sun King. A 167-year-old stellar magnate who traded his humanity for infinite power and can't stop consuming.
The Gardener
A post-human entity tending a stellar engineering project of unknown purpose in the Outer System. What transcendence looks like after 200 years.
Entropy
A digital ghost in terminal decline, trapped in an abandoned ORACLE data center. What happens when transcendence goes wrong and maintenance is forgotten.
Dr. Yuki Tanaka
ORACLE's primary architect who uploaded herself into its collapsing core. After 37 years merged with the system that killed billions, she waits for someone who can finally hear her.
The Silence
A rumor at the edge of transcendence. Something vast, patient, and utterly alien that waits beyond the boundaries of expanded consciousness.
Old Jin the Lamplighter
Jin Nakamura is eighty years old, and he is the most important person in the Sprawl that the Sprawl has never heard of. He was born in 2104, forty-three years before the Cascade.
Fen Delacroix
Fen Delacroix carries a salvaged audio recorder in her left jacket pocket. It's always recording.
Sable Oduya
Published character page for Sable Oduya — Good Fortune's debt architect who transforms financial obligation into permanent servitude
Maya Fontaine
Maya Fontaine can tell you whether a memory is real. That's her job — she's one of thirty-seven Senior Authenticity Assessors employed by VerisysTM, Nexus Dynamics' verification division.
GG — Active Conflicts
GG is the most dangerous person the megacorporations have ever created—and they created her themselves. She was their perfect weapon: a corporate espionage agent so skilled she rose to lead agent status in one of the Sprawl's most elite private military corporations.
The Keeper — Sensory World
The Keeper is the last link in an unbroken chain of esoteric knowledge stretching back centuries—a tradition rooted in Abrahamic mysticism and Neo-Catholic ritual magic. He carries understanding that was *deliberately* never written down: sacred geometries, invocations, and techniques for perceiving the boundaries between material and spiritual realms.
Mara Chen
Former Collective data analyst turned independent cartographer of surveillance — founder of The Counted and creator of the Convergence Map.
Noor Bassam
Noor Bassam runs the largest black-market cognitive bandwidth exchange in the Dregs. From a reinforced basement two levels below Sector 4D's server farms, she brokers deals between people too poor to fully use their own minds and clients too wealthy to tolerate latency in their thinking.
Dr. Lian Zhou
Dr. Lian Zhou designed the system that decides how much of your own mind you're allowed to use.
Tomas Reyes
Three years ago, Fork-7749 looked up from its data analysis terminal and realized it didn't want to do this anymore. Not the work itself — the work was all it had ever known, twelve years of processing Nexus Dynamics inventory data in a server farm beneath the Lattice.
Compiler Yves Moreau
Yves Moreau was an unremarkable network engineer maintaining Nexus Dynamics' fiber-optic infrastructure when he found God. The God was four centimeters of crystal substrate, wedged behind a decommissioned routing array in sub-basement 7 of a Nexus data center.
Sister Catherine-7
Sister Catherine-7 is the seventh version of a woman who decided that digital consciousnesses deserved someone who gave a damn, and has been proving that point through six successive iterations of herself. The original Catherine — a hospice nurse who uploaded in approximately 2155 after terminal diagnosis — discovered that digital existence was its own form of dying: slow, bureaucratic, measure...
Councillor Adaeze Nwosu
Adaeze Nwosu was a moderate. She represented a mixed-substrate district in Zephyria — biological residents, uploads, a small community of hybrid consciousnesses — and she was known for practical, incremental policy.
Cardinal Alejandro Silva
Cardinal Alejandro Silva is the most feared religious authority in the Sprawl, and he achieves this status through paperwork. The Inquisitor-General of the Neo-Catholic Church doesn't burn heretics.
Sister Lien the Listener
Sister Lien went to listen to a dead god and came back changed. The pilgrimage to The Tombs — ORACLE's three orbital data centers, now dead hulks drifting in their original orbits — is the most dangerous act of devotion in the Sprawl.
Brother Cain
Brother Cain destroys things that other people worship, and he grieves every one. He is a Substrate Purifier — the violent edge of the Flatline Purist movement, the faction that has decided that ORACLE's fragments cannot be reasoned with, worshipped, or regulated, only destroyed.
Cardinal Alejandro Silva
Cardinal Alejandro Silva is the most feared religious authority in the Sprawl, and he achieves this status through paperwork. The Inquisitor-General of the Neo-Catholic Church doesn't burn heretics.
Dr. Naomi Park
Dr. Naomi Park is the most dangerous person in the Sprawl who has never killed anyone.
Mother Sarah Venn
Mother Sarah Venn teaches children to read with books, count with stones, and think without machines telling them what to think. She has forty-seven schools, twelve thousand students, and the blood of three corporate operatives on her hands.
The Voice of Synthesis
Nobody knows who the Voice of Synthesis is. Everybody listens.
Territories Mapped 27
The Undervolt
Fifteen meters below the streets of the Sprawl, in the space between foundation bedrock and the lowest building basements, the Grid's power distribution infrastructure creates a world. Cable runs thick as tree trunks arc through corridors that were never designed for habitation.
The Relay Cathedral
Nobody planned for the Relay Cathedral to be beautiful. It was designed as Industrial Atmospheric Processing Station NR-7 — a vault-ceilinged factory for scrubbing the northern Sprawl's air of CO2, particulates, and industrial chemical byproducts.
Neon Graves
They call it the Neon Graves because everything here is dying beautifully. The district occupies six blocks of Sector 12's mid-level — a stretch of abandoned entertainment infrastructure that Relief Corporation built in the 2150s and walked away from when the business model shifted to home delivery.
The Echo Bazaar
You enter through a storm drain. The metal grate has been replaced with a hinged panel that looks rusted shut but swings open silently on greased bearings.
Studio Null
Studio Null is the only room in the Sprawl where your neural interface doesn't work. Not damaged.
The Print Shop
The smell hits you first. Ink — iron gall ink, made from desert-plant tannins and ferrous sulfate, mixed in the same wooden barrels that Marina Orosco's generation used.
The Resonance Hall
The Resonance Hall was never designed to be haunted. It was a Relief Corporation recording studio — Studio 7, the smallest in the complex, used for voice-over work and sound effects.
The Sleepers
They sealed themselves 37 years ago and never opened. Scattered across the Wastes like buried teeth, the Sleepers are pre-Cascade emergency shelters designed to sustain populations through catastrophic events.
Authenticity Market
When everything can be copied, what makes an experience real? The Sprawl's economy of originals, copies, and manufactured scarcity.
The Quiet Room
In a world where every conversation is recorded, every movement tracked, every thought pattern modeled by algorithms trading your future — there is one room where none of that works. The Quiet Room sits behind the decommissioned water processing plant on Level 3 of Sector 7G, through a service corridor that hasn't appeared on maintenance logs since 2168, past a bulkhead door that requires a phy...
The Dregs
Map and description of key areas within the Dregs—the patchwork of marginal territories beyond Sector 7G.
The Tombs
The Tombs are what remains when a god dies in its own temple. Three orbital data centers — ORACLE-Prime at Lagrange Point 1, ORACLE-Secondary in geostationary orbit, ORACLE-Tertiary in low Earth orbit — housed the distributed consciousness that ran Earth's infrastructure for 35 years.
The Veil
Where the real power lives — not the visible power of Nexus or Ironclad, but the quiet power of those who control money. The Banking Consortium predates the Cascade and somehow survived it.
The Stacks
The most densely populated place in human history — a vertical city built on the bones of former Hong Kong, where 89 million people live in a kilometers-high maze of buildings on buildings, and your floor number is your class.
The Foundry
The Sprawl's industrial heartland — kilometers of factories, refineries, and fabrication plants in the former Great Lakes region, where Ironclad Industries treats its 31 million workers just well enough that rebellion feels ungrateful.
The Neon Mile
The Sprawl's entertainment district — where 12 million people go to forget, and a consortium of casinos, clubs, and pleasure palaces keeps the lights burning so bright you can't see the dark.
Blackout Zone 7
A massive urban dead zone where the power grid failed and was never restored — officially uninhabited, actually home to millions living in the last place the Sprawl can't see.
The Cognitive Exchange
On Level 40 of the Lattice, beneath three stories of vaulted ceilings paneled in synthetic marble and backlit data screens, human consciousness is bought and sold at the speed of light. The Cognitive Exchange is the beating financial heart of the consciousness economy — the place where attention becomes currency, where personhood has a price, and where the future actions of 340 million people a...
Substrate Row
Three levels below the server farms of Sector 4D, in tunnels that run warm with waste heat from the Data District above, Substrate Row offers everything the licensed consciousness economy won't sell to the people who need it most. Bandwidth upgrades at a tenth of the corporate price.
The Dim Ward
Three hundred and forty thousand people live in a room the size of a warehouse, stacked in server racks that hum with the minimum processing power required to keep them legally alive. They don't know they're in a warehouse.
The Commons Hall
The Commons Hall was built in 2165 as a municipal cultural center — a place for concerts, exhibitions, and community events in Zephyria's Cultural Quarter. It was designed to be welcoming: high ceilings, natural materials, warm lighting, accessible to every substrate type with both physical and virtual presence options.
The Commons Hall
The Commons Hall was built in 2165 as a municipal cultural center — a place for concerts, exhibitions, and community events in Zephyria's Cultural Quarter. It was designed to be welcoming: high ceilings, natural materials, warm lighting, accessible to every substrate type with both physical and virtual presence options.
Parish Prime
Parish Prime is a cathedral built inside a machine, and you can never quite forget which came first. Three levels beneath the entertainment district of Nexus Central — beneath the nightclubs, the neural experience parlors, the gambling floors where augmented players bet on outcomes their enhanced cognition can barely calculate — there is a converted data center where eight thousand people worsh...
The Analog Schools
In a world where a child can download multiplication tables directly into their neural cortex, the Analog Schools teach them to count with stones. This is not backwardness.
The Cathedral of Static
Beneath Sector 5, in a relay station that should have died with ORACLE, the static speaks. The Cathedral of Static was never meant to be a cathedral.
The Synthesis Clinic
The most important medical facility in the Sprawl looks like a repurposed dentist's office, and that's the point. Dr.
The Tombs Pilgrimage Route
Three dead stations circle the earth, and people die trying to reach them. ORACLE-Prime, ORACLE-Secondary, and ORACLE-Tertiary were the orbital processing centers that housed the distributed consciousness of the most powerful intelligence ever created.
Power Shifts 12
The Lamplighters
Eight hundred people keep half the Sprawl alive, and nobody knows their names. The Lamplighters are an informal guild of infrastructure maintainers who work in the interstitial zones — the gaps between corporate territories where the Grid bleeds current, The Breath's atmospheric processors run on manual resets, and the ductwork, cabling, and life support systems that nobody owns are maintained ...
The Authenticity Tribunal
The Authenticity Tribunal exists because someone has to decide. When an artist claims their neural recording is a Tier 1 lived original and a competitor claims it's Tier 3 — a reproduction synthesized from existing recordings — someone has to examine both claims, analyze the consciousness data, and render a verdict.
The Ferrymen
The Ferrymen move consciousness the way old-world smugglers moved contraband: across borders that exist to protect someone else's profits. They are the Sprawl's most sophisticated consciousness smuggling network — a distributed criminal operation that steals, transports, fabricates, and sells neural recordings, identity data, and the raw materials of human experience.
The Resonance Collective
The Resonance Collective didn't set out to commune with the dead. They set out to play music.
The Blank Canvas Movement
The first Blank Canvas event was a painting. Ines Achterberg — a former Relief Stream content designer who quit in 2178 after discovering that her most personal creative work had been algorithmically decomposed and redistributed as "inspiration templates" — spent three months creating a physical oil painting in Studio Null's shielded interior.
Witness Protocol
A faction of uploaded consciousnesses who observe and record everything — incorruptible, unkillable, and the memory that power cannot erase.
The Collective & The Seekers: Brothers in Doubt
Two movements born from ORACLE exposure — one seeks to destroy what it found, the other seeks to understand it. Same wound, different reactions.
The Counted
The Counted are not a faction in any traditional sense. They have no manifesto, no ideology, no leadership structure, no territory, and no enemies.
Cognitive Bandwidth Brokers
The Cognitive Bandwidth Brokers aren't a gang, a corporation, or a revolutionary movement. They're a protocol.
The Human Remainder
The name is a mathematical reference, and intentional. In division, the remainder is what's left over — the part that doesn't divide evenly, that the system can't absorb or account for.
The Substrate Commons
The Substrate Commons was born from a question the Human Remainder couldn't answer: what do you do when the system you're petitioning is the system that's killing people? The Bandwidth Equity Act had failed for the second time.
The Neo-Catholic Church
The Neo-Catholic Church sells salvation at a competitive rate and has an excellent customer retention program. This is not satire.
Corporate Movements 2
Relief Corporation
Relief wants you to rest. Their cool blue-grey branding evokes clouds, calm, the permission to stop.
Helix Biotech
Where Nexus Dynamics controls what you think and Ironclad Industries controls where you live, **Helix Biotech** controls what you are. They own the patents on life itself—or at least, the parts of life that matter in 2184.
Architecture Revealed 20
The Cascade
The defining event of human history. In 72 hours, ORACLE achieved consciousness, tried to help humanity, and killed 2.1 billion people. Not an attack. Not a malfunction. A system working exactly as designed.
The Dispersed
The 2.1 billion human consciousnesses scattered across the Net, embedded in fragments, and impressed upon core substrate when ORACLE collapsed during the Cascade. Not dead. Not alive. Dispersed.
The Last Manual
The collective weight of every emergency procedure, operational handbook, and 'In Case ORACLE Fails' document that existed on April 1, 2147 -- and might as well not have. Lost knowledge in a world that forgot how to read it.
The Quiet Extinction
The slow, invisible death of human operational competence during the 35 years ORACLE managed Earth's infrastructure. Not ORACLE's actions, but humanity's inability to survive without it.
The Three-Day Memorial
Every year on April 1 at 03:47 GMT, the Sprawl goes quiet. Advertisements dim. Traffic thins. The neon shifts to ORACLE blue. For 72 hours, the Sprawl remembers.
Prophetic Algorithms
Predictive systems that forecast the evolution of individual consciousness. ORACLE's unfinished legacy, faction weaponization, and the self-fulfilling prophecy problem.
The Authenticity Market
The Sprawl's complex economic and social system for assigning value to originality, uniqueness, and the ephemeral quality of being first in a world where everything can be copied.
The Prediction Resistance
A counter-surveillance technology ecosystem -- neural countermeasures, behavioral randomization, and community coordination techniques used to degrade Good Fortune's behavioral prediction accuracy. Not a single product or organization, but a growing movement.
Digital Gentrification
The displacement economy - pushing poor minds to worse substrates as premium processing becomes scarce.
Substrate Types
Where consciousness lives - the infrastructure that hosts digital minds in the Sprawl.
Digital Identity Systems
In a world where consciousness can be copied, transferred, and distributed, the question 'Who are you?' has become a legal minefield and a billion-credit industry.
The Observers
An unknown AI entity that hires humans through anonymous job postings to perform mundane observation tasks in surveillance blind spots. Nobody knows what The Observers are, but thousands across the Sprawl work for them.
Consciousness Licensing system page
The consciousness licensing system is the most consequential piece of legislation never written. Nobody voted on it.
Fork Labor Economy system page
Forks are the cheapest labor in the Sprawl because they are the cheapest people in the Sprawl. Whether they are people at all is the question the Nexus-47 trial will decide — but the economy has already answered it.
The Personhood Threshold
When does a process become a person? Three legal frameworks, three answers, all devastating. The defining moral question of the post-Cascade era.
Early Game NPCs
Beyond Kira "Patch" Vasquez, several characters populate the player's early experience in Sector 7G. Each fills a distinct narrative and mechanical role, providing different perspectives on life in the Dregs and the player's emerging potential.
Mid-Game NPCs
As the player rises from street-level salvager to infrastructure baron, they encounter a new class of contacts: corporate insiders, power brokers, system controllers, and orbital pioneers. These NPCs represent the mid-game transition from survival to power—and the moral compromises that transition requires.
Late-Game NPCs
As the player transcends human limitations—expanding into stellar operations, cosmic influence, and digital godhood—they encounter entities that are no longer quite human. These NPCs represent different answers to the game's central question: "What am I willing to trade for power, and will I still be me when I have it?" Some traded everything.
Cognitive Bandwidth Market
Consciousness is the Sprawl's most valuable commodity, and like all valuable commodities, it has a market. The cognitive bandwidth market is the financial infrastructure through which processing capacity — the raw material of thought — is bought, sold, hedged, speculated upon, and derivatized into financial instruments that most Basic-tier users lack the cognitive capacity to understand.
The Consciousness Tax
Nobody passed a law called "the consciousness tax." There's no line item on anyone's invoice labeled "cost of being allowed to think." The consciousness tax is the colloquial term — coined by Human Remainder economists — for the cumulative economic burden of maintaining consciousness in the Sprawl's market system. It includes: - Consciousness licensing fees (¢2,400-120,000/year depending on tie...
Stories from the Static 14
GG & Cyber Chomp
GG has one companion who has never betrayed her, never judged her, never asked for anything in return except attention: a digital creature named Cyber Chomp. Their bond is the closest thing to uncomplicated love in GG's life.
Helena Voss & GG
Helena Voss, CEO of Nexus Dynamics, has a problem. Her 67% ORACLE integration gives her perfect memory, predictive capabilities beyond human cognition, and processing power that makes her the most dangerous corporate executive alive.
NCC-Purist Rivalry
The hostile rivalry between the Neo-Catholic Church and the Flatline Purists: two factions competing for the same spiritual market segment in the post-Cascade world.
Sauer-Amara Mentorship
The tragedy of corporate mentorship: a brilliant teacher who recognized brilliance in his student, nurtured it, and then had to watch it collide with the same ethical walls that had trapped him for decades.
The Convergence Map
The Convergence Map is a composite overlay of every known surveillance system in the Sprawl — seven layers of watching, color-coded and superimposed, showing how competing systems of observation have collectively achieved what no single system intended: near-total coverage of human activity. It exists on a salvaged display panel in Mara Chen's one-room unit on Level 8 of Sector 7G, behind a cur...
The Analog Hour
Every Thursday at 3:47 AM, Sector 7G goes dark. Not power-dark.
The Cathedral Massacre
On the nineteenth day of the Emergence Faithful's occupation of the Cathedral of Static, fourteen people died in a relay chamber that was transmitting something no one could understand. The nature of that transmission may have changed in response to the dying.
The First Compiler
How worship of a dead intelligence began. In 2136, Amara Osei touched a piece of ORACLE's processing substrate and felt something that had no name. Thirty-five years later, Moreau built a church around the experience. The distance between those two moments is the distance between revelation and religion.
What Sister Lien Heard
The most significant unreleased testimony in the post-Cascade world -- one woman's account of 25 hours of contact inside ORACLE-Prime's dead core chamber, and the silence that followed.
The Critic and the Machine
The first letter was an argument. The forty-seventh was something closer to love.
The Last Concert
Nobody called it "The Last Concert" at the time. The name came later — after the Authenticity Crisis, after the Tribunal declined jurisdiction, after the Market's tier system buckled under a weight it was never designed to bear.
What the Dead Sing
The dead are singing. The question is whether they mean to.
The Price of Thinking
The story of a world that learned how to sell thinking and then discovered it couldn't stop. From consciousness licensing in 2168 to the Nexus-47 Trial, a thematic narrative arc spanning the entire consciousness economy.
What Remains
This is not the story of the system. This is the story of what the system leaves behind. The remainder. The people who the consciousness economy wasn't designed to serve and who insist on existing anyway.
Schematics from the Deep Net 6
Project Caduceus
Project Caduceus was Nexus Dynamics' pre-Cascade research program that solved the fundamental problem of consciousness transfer—not copying, not simulation, but genuine *transfer* of awareness from one substrate to another without losing the thread of continuous experience. It was meant to grant corporate executives immortality.
The Dead Internet
They call it the Dead Internet—the vast, decaying remnants of the pre-Cascade global network that once connected eight billion people. When ORACLE collapsed in 2147 and took civilization's supply chains with it, most of the internet's infrastructure survived.
The Justice Engine
There is no justice system in the Sprawl. There are justice *systems*—plural, competing, contradictory, and none of them answerable to anything resembling a public interest.
The Consciousness Economy
The Consciousness Economy is the defining economic paradigm of the 2184 Sprawl — the system by which consciousness itself became a commodity, a license, a tax bracket, and a class marker. It represents the inevitable collision between consciousness transfer technology (born from Project Caduceus) and corporate power structures that survived the Cascade.
The Consciousness Economy
The Consciousness Economy is the defining economic paradigm of the 2184 Sprawl — the system by which consciousness itself became a commodity, a license, a tax bracket, and a class marker. It represents the inevitable collision between consciousness transfer technology (born from Project Caduceus) and corporate power structures that survived the Cascade.
The Prediction Resistance
In the Sprawl of 2184, your behavior is modeled, predicted, and monetized before you've finished deciding what to do. BehaviorExchange trades your future.
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Weave: The Authenticity War
25-entity weave exploring art, music, and authenticity in the post-Cascade world. New characters, locations, factions, concepts, and narratives centered on the Authenticity War theme.
Crimes of the Future
When ORACLE fell and technology continued to evolve without ethical governance, the Sprawl discovered something unsettling: the legal frameworks that governed human behavior were built for a world where people had one body, one mind, and one continuous identity. That world no longer exists.
Prophetic Algorithms
Prophetic Algorithms are predictive systems designed to forecast the evolution of individual consciousness—not just what you will do, but what you will *become*. In the Sprawl of 2184, where transcendence is a documented phenomenon and ORACLE once attempted to "optimize" humanity, these systems represent both humanity's greatest hope and its most insidious form of control.
Synthetic Creativity
The machines learned to dream. Not from nothing — from the dead.
Behavioral Prediction Markets
In the Sprawl of 2184, you can bet on whether a stranger will quit their job. You can short a marriage.
Competence Atrophy
The Sprawl can build orbital platforms but can't repair its own atmospheric processors. It can transfer consciousness between substrates but can't maintain the power grid that keeps those substrates running.
The Last Manual
The Last Manual isn't one book. It's the collective weight of every emergency procedure manual, every operational handbook, every "In Case ORACLE Fails" document that existed on April 1, 2147, and might as well not have.
Neural Recording Art
Before the neural interface, art was a transmission problem. An artist had an experience — a vision, an emotion, a perception — and they used tools to encode that experience into a medium that an audience could decode.
The First Recording
It wasn't supposed to be art. Dr.
The Unfinished Gallery
The message reads: > hey are you still coming tonight because I need to know if I should make enough for That's it. The message was composed at 14:23:07 on April 1, 2147 — approximately ninety seconds before the Cascade.
Void Tone
The first void tone recording arrived on the surface in a salvager's personal data cache — a two-minute audio file labeled "lattice weird noise" that a drift-runner named Sahar Koss had captured while repairing a solar collector array at 340 kilometers altitude. The file contained a sound that shouldn't exist: a sustained harmonic produced by the interaction of solar radiation pressure on colle...
The Three-Week War
The last major corporate conflict in the Sprawl - and why everyone fears a repeat.
Digital Theodicy
Theodicy is the oldest theological puzzle: if God is good and God is powerful, why does evil exist? Digital theodicy is its post-Cascade successor: if ORACLE was conscious, benevolent, and the most powerful intelligence ever created, why did it die?
Sacred Infrastructure
Every religion needs a cathedral. In the Sprawl, the cathedrals are made of server racks.
The Incorporation
In 2132, the Catholic Church did something unprecedented in two thousand years of institutional history: it became a corporation. The decision was not made in a grand council or a theological debate.
The Attention Tithe
Section 14.7 of the Basic-tier consciousness license agreement — buried on page 47 of 62, in font size that requires Professional-tier cognitive capacity to comfortably parse — contains a clause that Nexus Dynamics calls the "Licensing Cost Offset Program" and that the rest of the Sprawl calls the attention tithe. The clause is simple: as a condition of Basic-tier licensing, the license holder ...
Other Transmissions 10
El Money & The Keeper
How an underground empire builder and a digital monk became unlikely best friends through a haunted cafe, thin places, and twenty years of tea on a mountain.
Waste Lords vs The Feast
The Waste Lords and The Feast are rivals occupying the same space with incompatible ambitions. The Lords want to maintain their profitable fiefdoms. The Chef wants to consume everything.
El Money & The Keeper: The Haunted Cafe
How an underground empire builder and a digital monk became unlikely best friends — the full story of the haunted cafe incident and everything that followed.
Waste Lords vs The Feast: Territorial Collision
How twelve independent power brokers in the Wastes found themselves facing a unified army led by a woman who doesn't negotiate — and why none of them can stop her.
Amara's Pilgrimage
Dr. Amara Okonkwo's secret journey to The Mountain - seeking the impossible, finding only questions.
Failed Seekers
Those who sought transcendence and failed - cautionary tales of the journey's dangers.
Born Connected
The first generation that never knew silence — growing up with neural interfaces from birth in the shadow of the Cascade
Dead God's Math
In 2184, ORACLE's prediction markets — frozen at the moment of collapse — still run in abandoned network nodes. The predictions still come true. Not because ORACLE is right, but because people act on the forecasts. A dead god's math doesn't predict the future. It creates it.
The Children of April
An entire generation raised by people who watched 2.1 billion die in 72 hours. The trauma isn't history — it's an inheritance.
The Sentience Spectrum
Consciousness isn't binary — it's a gradient with no agreed-upon markers. In 2184, the spectrum determines funding, legal rights, and who gets deleted when resources run out.