The Truth They Won't Tell You
In 2055, the corporations went to war. Not with nations. With each other.
Seven years of hell. Cities burned. Infrastructure collapsed. The systems everyone depended on - power, water, food distribution - all of it became weapons. All of it became targets.
By 2062, someone decided to end it. Operation Decapitation. Coordinated strikes on every corporate AI datacenter. Every automated system. Every piece of infrastructure that kept the war machine running.
It worked. The war ended.
So did everything else.
80-90%
Not from the strikes. From what came after.
Starvation. Disease. Violence.
The infrastructure was gone. People forgot how to survive without it.
Now it's 2110. Forty-eight years later. And guess who's back?
The corporations. New names. Same game. "The Continuum." "Citizen Services." "Reconstruction."
They offer food. Shelter. Safety. All you have to do is register. Let them track you. Let them assign you. Let them own you.
They killed the old world. They're building a cage from the ashes.
"History doesn't repeat, but it rhymes."
The Cartel remembers. We were here before Pluribus. Before the machine decided it knew what was best for everyone. Before "citizenship" became another word for slavery.
We'll be here after.