NoMoreAdenine
The Northern Virginia Community College was a normal school until it wasn't.
After a complete systemic collapse that followed the invocation of the Insurrection Act and the culmination of decades worth of unrest, the United States was divided into 14 separate territories, each with varying forms of governance. Some became the most welcoming countries on planet Earth. Others, like the Commonwealth of Atlantis, morphed into neocameralist "network states" led by billionaire despots. Neocameralism is a system where countries are run like businesses called sovcorps, each owning a neostate and prioritizing profit and deterrence against aggression.
The Northern Virginia Community College had already been surrounded by government institutions and shady military contractors. Now, it's ground zero for post-dystopian policies. The college operates under the AI-enhanced EduCosmos framework: VR guidance counselors, deep surveillance, and a fully privatized discipline pipeline. All of it, supposedly, to "maximize freedom through optimization."
Four students, Jade Montout, Luna Whittaker, Matt Kessler, and Tarmaan Eddin, are fed up with the rampant death and destruction. They want to know the truth behind it all.