The year is 2243. The air is thick due to the ghastly fumes coming from the Tetracorp Industries scattered all around. Tetrabots are loitering the streets and salvaging useful materials from large dumping sites. Tetracops and drones can also be seen everywhere. One wrong move, and they'll gladly pop a bullet into your skull.
Life in Apex City has hardened and toughened all its inhabitants.
Ever since the Takeover, Earth, now known as Sektor 2897, is now crawling with robots and other AI. Everyone fends for themselves as meager food and water supply become difficult to obtain. The farms have been turned into more industries, and the oceans are polluted with oil and waste products from these factories. These robots have made a mess of all those left, turning some of them into slaves while others turned into monsters of their own making. All sorts of people roam these streets. From bounty hunters to assassins and illegal cargo transporters, the list is endless. Although we have...
Eddie: Hey you! Narrator!
Narrator: Oh God, not him again! Please don't come here.
Eddie: Narrator! (Walks toward him) What's up?
Narrator: You didn't even let me finish my story! What do you want, Eddie?
Eddie: Nothing, just wanted to tell you to have a great morning! Today is really a beautiful day.
Narrator: Well, I don't know about beautiful, Eddie. Don't you have anything better to do? I don't know; enroll for the bounty hunter program? Bust some robots? Anything else except ruining my morning?
Eddie: Okay, narrator! Have a good morning!
Narrator: Yeah yeah...get lost, Eddie.
(Eddie runs off)
Narrator: (sighs)
Well, that was Eddie. The only lively guy in this city. He still acts like the Takeover didn't happen and drinks a cappuccino with 23 sugars and milk. Acts like a pussy all the time. He doesn't seem to understand that being nice and doesn't take you anywhere in this Godforsaken city. I hope he doesn't die soon.
(Sighs again)
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At The Edge Of The Universe.
Science FictionThe year is 2243. Bots from Tetracorp Industries have taken over the earth as we know it, and it is now an umbra of itself. Earth's new alias is Sektor 2897, and this God-forsaken planet is ruled by the ruthless Volvotron, a merciless AI with organ...
