Ro (A Cyberpunk Retelling of Romeo and Juliet)

"I'm not star-crossed. Not unless you cross me."

Ro is a Montague who killed her father to inherit the drug-running business and their considerable stash of bio-tech.

Jules is the heir to the Capulet Casino and the single rose of the blood-stained, rotting streets of New Verona who wants to escape their captive world.

But will the rose smell as sweet if Ro steals them away?

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Two crime lords, both alike in villainy,
In New Verona, where we lay our scene,
From older murder leads to new misery,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From the delinquencies of these two foes
A pair of star-cross'd felons take their fight;
Whose misadventured bio-tech overthrows
Do with much death bury their parents' might.
Let the tech war into brothels, casinos, and fatal masquerades,
And in the shadows of the city's cruel rage,
Aside from their vendetta's end, nothing could remove,
Turn now your consciences from this page;
The which if you, with patient eyes attend,
The past is gone, this dark future we must end.