Ghost Code 082819

Neo-Cincy is a city built on surveillance, debt, and secrets. In Sector 9, every citizen is assigned a Personal Identity Number at birth. Most people use theirs for medical records, transit access, employment, etc. D4X's? 082819 became a ghost code. Once registered as a retrieval operative (E-level), D4X worked for one of Sector 9's largest private intelligence contractors, tracking stolen prototypes, rogue hackers, and political dissidents. Then a contract went sideways. His target wasn't a criminal. It was a whistleblower carrying proof that Neo-Cincy's governing corporations had been erasing citizens-digitally first, physically second. D4X made a choice... He killed the retrieval team. Took the data. Burned his identity. Now his PIN exists in the system as both active and deceased-a bureaucratic impossibility that makes him a phantom in the network. These days he works as a Data Runner moving stolen intel between resistance cells, black market brokers, and anyone rich enough to pay. But bounty hunting pays better. So if someone puts a price on a monster, a traitor, or a corporate butcher? D4X collects.