World 01
World Overview: The Shattered Tomorrow
Background Overview
In the centuries to come, humanity has reached unprecedented technological heights, with genetic engineering, artificial intelligence, and cybernetic modifications forming the pillars of society. However, such progress has not benefited everyone. Arcadia Corporation, a colossal megacorporation, monopolizes all resources, transforming high-tech cities into towering symbols of both glory and oppression. Meanwhile, the Ruins and Wastelands have been abandoned entirely, serving as the refuge of the forsaken.
Major Regions of the World
- High-Tech Metropolis
- Symbols of corporate glory, filled with neon-lit skyscrapers, where the lower classes toil as corporate slaves.
- Stark stratification: elites reside in the lofty upper districts, while the lower citizens are confined to shadowy factories and sprawling slums.
- Ruler: Arcadia Corporation, wielding dominance over genetic engineering, energy, and military might.
- The Ruins
- The outskirts of the city, polluted and abandoned industrial zones where genetic outcasts and fugitives converge.
- Features: scarce resources but abundant discarded technology, making it a hub for scavengers and rebels.
- The Wastelands
- Vast, perilous regions made up of corporate-abandoned mining zones and failed ecological experiments.
- Types: the Polluted Wreckage, Duststorm Barrens, Verdant Shadows, and Frozen Plains, each presenting unique dangers and opportunities.
Society and Technology
- Genetics and Cybernetics
- Genetic Engineering: Urban elites pursue "evolution," while failed genetic experiments are discarded into the Ruins.
- Cybernetic Modifications: Body augmentation is widespread, ranging from prosthetics to built-in weaponry. Wasteland dwellers favor improvised, self-made upgrades.
- Artificial Intelligence and Surveillance
- Corporations use a central system, Argos, to enforce total surveillance, suppressing any resistance.
- Drones and AI soldiers patrol the cities and Wastelands, posing lethal threats to rebels.
- Energy Crisis
- Geothermal energy crystals serve as the corporation's primary resource, but overexploitation has triggered natural disasters and environmental devastation.
Factions
- Arcadia Corporation
- The world's overlord, self-proclaimed as the "architects of humanity's future," yet maintaining control through oppression and manipulation.
- Armed with private armies, hacker divisions, and the all-encompassing central system.
- Anti-Corporate Forces
- Wolfpack Hackers 25: An underground network of genetic outcasts and the oppressed, led by Rex "Wolf King," dedicated to overthrowing corporate tyranny.
- Guerrilla Fighters and Scavengers: Independent resistance groups scattered across the Wastelands, leveraging tactics and environmental knowledge to combat corporate forces.
- Neutral Inhabitants
- Urban Underclass: Ordinary citizens surviving under corporate rule, though some secretly aid the resistance.
- Wasteland Gangs: Nomadic factions and mutants, hostile to external forces but willing to cooperate with rebels for the right price.