The Story
Year 2149
"Science can rebuild the body. It cannot program the soul."
Setting
Noctis-7
Nations have collapsed. Global order is no longer drawn by governments — it is redrawn by megacorporations that own both governance and ethics. Three things are currency: data, genetics, and loyalty.
Beneath the towers of the most powerful corporation on Earth lies Noctis-7 — a subterranean megacity of neon, acid rain, black-market surgeons, and forgotten people. Simultaneously a corporate dumping ground and the last free space on Earth.
Protagonist
Rex Vire
The most feared mercenary in the employ of The Organization — an extralegal contractor group handling the dirty work of major corporations. Neural implants, combat augmentation, and years of contract warfare have made him a near-perfect killing machine.
When a mysterious contract leads him into the heart of Nexora Industries, fragments of a past he never knew begin surfacing. Strange dreams. A name he doesn't recognize. And a feeling he can't explain — like returning to a place he's never been.
// CLASSIFIED — NEXORA INTERNAL: "A perfect weapon is only useful when it has forgotten it was ever a person."
The Mission
Protocol: Helix
An anonymous contract. A scientist held in the deepest tier of Nexora's research complex. The payment is exceptional. The briefing is sparse. Rex takes the job.
He does not know that stepping through the security perimeter will awaken something buried in his own architecture — something Nexora has been waiting for him to trigger.
// WARNING — Every answer he finds will cost him something he didn't know he had.
"In this work, it doesn't matter where the contract comes from. As long as the payment clears, I move."— Rex Vire
