Fatal Order

E-Compendium

WARNING: FULL SPOILERS AHEAD

The E-Compendium contains all the bizarre story-specific terms and lore used that you may need clarification on for one reason or another. So, please feel free to read up on the Fatal Order lore here or just check a certain thing you feel you're unsure of!

Full spoilers for the book ahead. Do not read any further if you have not finished Fatal Order.

Thanks for reading,

Sam (Viava)

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Fatal Frolic: The name of the game that the 12 (24, originally) prisoners were forced to play as part of one of the Phantom Sector's most ambitious projects to force people into submitting to the corporation and working for them using methods of psychological torture and a constant physical threat of death.

Fate: The ominous alias that Nick Adler adopted to hide his identity as the mastermind behind the Fatal Frolic.

Fatal Frolic Facility: The name given to the large digital building in which the Fatal Frolic takes place.

Autonomous Age: The age that began in 2020, following the initial mass production of Pyrobots. The bots were cheap, well-made, and efficient. Major companies began replacing employees with pyrobots, which started the mass unemployment across the world, which in turn caused the riots and led to the anarchy and disorder that the world ended up in. Pyrobots controlled most things in the world so people didn't have jobs to go to, which is why the riots began, resulting in the complete structural collapse of the world that we see in the present day, 2025. Very few places on earth are not in anarchy, minus some Northern European countries and African ones, which refused to sell the pyrobots, closed their borders, or didn't have any easy access to them to begin with.

Mind Overrider: A device developed and used by PyroTech. It was never officially released to the public as it wouldn't need to be, its purpose is to overload the brain so much so that it would awaken a person from a simulation. It was never even finished for anybody's use either, so Aurora took a large risk when using it in Part 1.

System Overrider: A device developed by PyroTech that was also never officially released to the public as it was only to be used as a means of overriding the simulation entirely, essentially acting as an ultimate mind overrider. The system overrider would awaken everybody from the simulation at once. Adam uploaded one to the simulation before the Frolic began so that when the frolic started he could use it to save everyone. Of course, due to memory erasure, he did not remember this until he regained some memories later on due to hitting his head. Eventually, the system overrider uploading was a memory he recalled. Like the mind overrider, this device was always in experimental stages.

Simulation: A reality simulated via a computer. The 24 prisoners all endured one in the form of the Fatal Frolic Facility.

PyroTech Industries: The conglomerate responsible for the robotic age of the modern world. They developed the Pyrobots, the cheaply made machines that could act as slaves to people, replacing most human jobs. The demand was high, which is why things like the Fatal Frolic happened, to experiment with a slow, raw process of brainwashing as a means of forcing people to work for the company.