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Chronicles of 2077

by Sovngarde114

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September 24, 2018

Neuranet

‘I’m anxious about this operation’…‘Getting Cybercore operational inside my head isn’t what i planned on doing… how else am i going to compete with the other Netrunners?’ The steel armrest is col...


June 03, 2018

Goodbye Kansas

I remember looking at her face, trying to imitate her disdain through my expression, wrestling my own confusion as to why things had to get so violent, at the brink of tears i found my voice at e...


Book Description

2021 - As access to social media becomes available to 98% of the world’s total population, humanity stirs as technological advancements have neglected to address impoverished and hunger stricken communities.

2025 - In one of the worst natural disasters in history, which would spell the dawn of a new global effort to reduce haphazard infrastructure expansion, humanity geared itself towards a new age of technological enlightenment.

2027 - “Kyoto Accord Signed” Aimed to establish a worldwide effort to seize and redistribute wealth from Mega-Corporations and reinvest into technology to combat pervasive economy. This was hailed as the greatest cultural revolution in history since the advent of globalization.

2029 - Quantum Computing breakthrough ensues a radicalist movement citing that they key to humanities’ secure future lies in Sentient Artificial Intelligence achievable by the patent works of one Doctor Kostya Ivanov.

2031 - Indian philanthropist and Econonomics guru Arjun Ahuja settles position as Governing Director of Vision (GDV) with Tech-giant Cortek to industrialize protein farms in India.

2034 - First case of voluntary dismemberment for Bionic Augumentation after All-Star Hoverboarder Ian Miller files discrimination lawsuit against Megatainment firm SkillRaiders Trademarked. Ushering in voluntary bionic augumentation clinics across the United States to quell societal upheaval against “Bionic Supremacy”.

2035 - Genetic Engineering breakthrough with the help of household A.I Assistant Alexa in collaboration with Pharmaceutical Organisation GenCorp, Media outlets chant “The future of evolution is on the horizon”.

2038 - Marks the first time in history that humanity has soley depended on telecomunications and holograms to convene at the Global Association of Directors Summit, this was all thanks to Quatum Encryption as security tightens against possible A.I cyber raids.

2041 - Terror grips humanity as a programming anomaly believed to be an advanced cyber virus causes A.I to malfucion causing systematic collapse in Europe and North America. Intranet quarantine protocols lead to the fiscal dissolution of trade agreements that binded corporations as far East Asia and Russia leading to worldwide economic chaos.

2045 - First diagnosis of children with Reality Displacement Syndrome, wherein the patient cannot determine reality from virtual reality without artificial assistance, the spread of this caused radicalists from the genetic engineering research sector to lambast world governments for their inabilty to supervise corporations that protoyped technology without considering the rammifications to society.

2047 - In the largest societal power shift in history that media outlets deemed a coup, corporations have assimilated governments within their heirarchies citing to be as revolutionary as the signing of the Magna Carta. The state as the world knew it is no more and ones liberty and freedom now is represented by their Value Capital Indicator (VCI)

2048 - A social phenomenon termed “Going Dark” makes waves as people decide to break free from their corporately marginalized identities, spawning a new class of underground individuals who operate off the Cybergrid.

2051 - Eurol Interstellar primes it’s space station to the mass collonization of Mars in conjuction with Cortek using lower class VCI citziens, “Pioneers of Progress” as labelled by corporate media.

2053 - The first Post-Millenium senior’s medal is awarded to Angel Methembu, indicating the first elder member in soceity to have never lived without access to the Internet.

2058 - Cases of a genetically engineered bio-drug deemed as contraband by regulating corporate authorities becomes available in slums used by teens and young adults as a party drug, lower class districts around the world decorated by graffiti with common slogans like “free will”, “you can’t buy a soul” and “they take you while you sleep”.

2060 - Localised corporate collapse ensues as ventures that do not have sub-sector police units fail to maintain their buisiness model integrity, suffering from attrition by rival corporations and street gangs in a gripping phenomenon across the planet.

2063 - Martian corporations have proped up, establishing a self sustaining presence of humanity on another planet. Mega-Corporations Eurol and Cortek celebrate by holding a live casted VR summit viewed by 7.3 billion people within 3 hours, in what is called the most televised event in history, in an effort to establish their monolithic presence on earth as superpowers.

2068 - Corporate war erupts in the continent of North America, causing devastation and destruction on a scale never witnessed before, cybernetically augumented soldiers in tandem with A.I controlled androids combating genetically enhanced soldiers in guerilla warefare that would lead the entire continent becoming a war-torn wasteland, eyed by orbital bombardment stations owned by Eurol-Cortek Mega Corp.

2072 - In an effort to exert supreme authority over mankind, Eurol-Cortek threatens to indiscriminately bombard the North American Warzone, thus quelling further chaos in the continent and slowing the perpetual degradation wreaked upon the inhabitants of the continent.


A.D 2077

The world stands at the edge of reality, where the truth is blurred by organized media theatrics. Youths of the lower class are systematically displaced from their families whether by authority or circumstance, seemingly indoctrinated to believe that their corporate background affiliations are by some means a measure of their pedigree. The machine of education turns to produce a perpetual cycle of individuals who depend on an identity that can only be validated by their member affiliations.

Entertainment has become more than a recreational component of living but moreso a control device that aims to quell the natural uncomfortable curioisities that effervescence within a person, those who suffer from this condition are drawn to corporate controlled healthcare solutions that seem to have a highly effective rate of rectifying this phenomena.

Cities are run by corporations and lawlessness is rife in outer city urban compounds where contracted police enforcement wears thin, dotted around city districts are hubs where activities are sanctioned by corporate owned entities that act nigh independantly from each other. Most of the workforce that propells the machine of human soceity is robotic and A.I controlled with strict and elegant encryption technology that only savant like individuals could hope to tamper with.

As such, technology dictates the boundries and potential a user can exploit to their ends.

Every day life is a surreal amalgamation of cyber activities and real world living.