Life is 100% fatal. Let’s keep it that way.
-West Shore graffiti

A Post Cyberpunk Science Fiction Novel
Life is 100% fatal. Let’s keep it that way.
-West Shore graffiti
“This is why we have five Internet platforms right now. When hacker/pirates created the Angry Tree Protocol it hamstrung the original Cobweb. Two secure, private networks emerged from the anarchy. One using optical technology, the other satellite based, they tried to monetise information to the point of squeezing the average citizen out of the educational loop. Next thing you know, Episoft’s peer to peer system gives free access back to the people. Not as good as Definition+ as provided by Satnet and Ambercast, but I invested my clients money in them anyway. Look at them now.”
James Tucker, CEO of MercurEx
“96.3 percent of commercial brands were wiped out during the first ten years of the depression.”
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“As a new generation adapts to the new oral technology, literacy rates are set to plunge within the next two decades. Already the cheaper manifestations of zoids have made it unnecessary for a vast number of humans to read or write. With the cost of education skyrocketing, the use of language will inevitably devolved into what it was millennia ago.”
JUNK_D
“What economic depression?”
– Prime Executive Jorge Wilson, when asked about the effects of the 22-year long depression on the City-State’s economy.