Chapter 1

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Planet Earth

Quadrant BT-7S

Metropolis of Taekoru

Date 13th June 2422


During the day, the impressive, dark city of Taekoru that rises like a mirage from the burning sands, is barely distinguishable from the softly rolling dunes that surround it. The heavy winds force the sand and dust into the city until every single surface is almost constantly covered by a blanket of gritty gold. It isn't until the artificial rains at night that the true character of the metal jungle is revealed in the bright neon lights and the endless maze of black streets, when the dust and the sand are washed away and the slate is cleaned.

It's a new beginning, every night.

Where the city is a dichotomy between night and day, the same cannot be said for Taekoreans.

They are a uniform mass of mindless beings blindly following the rules -whatever those may be from one moment to the next. Indifferent, insular and disconnected, the people are only interested in one thing: attaining perfection.

This perfection is easily attained by using superficial holographic improvements or, if one is rich enough, physical upgrades.

The whole of the city swims in advertisements that continuously bombard people with images of perfection, artificially enhanced beauties that make the average person feel inadequate -whilst simultaneously offering the very solution to the problem.

Mirotex and their artificial enhancements are the solution to all of life's problems. Even things that are not broken must and will be fixed.

Perfection is attainable -but only if you can afford it.

Many who cannot afford it, steal it.


This obsession over being perfect and beautiful is entirely driven by Mirotex, a gigantic industrial conglomerate that owns everything important there is to own.

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