Though only a handful of Pandora Gates are known to exist-each highly contested-the foolish, brave, curious, and desperate are already risking certain death to enter and explore what lies beyond.
Known as Pandora Gates, these poorly-understood devices allow instantaneous teleportation to distant star systems-often one-way and/or fatal. Just as quickly as they came, the TITANS disappeared, taking millions of uploaded minds with them, leaving behind a network of wormhole gateways. Our planetary home-Earth-was transformed into a toxic and strange hellhole, while many major habitats were left frozen sarcophagi in the vacuum of space. In just a few years, transhumanity was nearly wiped out with nuclear strikes, biowarfare plagues, destructive nanoswarms, infowar attacks, mass uploads, and other unexplained singularity events, ripping the superpowers of old to pieces. What began as a whirlwind of conflict between political factions, revolutionaries, and hypercorps soon escalated into a struggle between man and machine. The AI intelligences spawned by this hard-takeoff singularity quickly turned against transhumanity, enveloping the system in unprecedented levels of violence, disaster, and warfare.
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In the midst of these aggressions, a group of military AIs known as TITANS quietly achieved full sentience and autonomy, and rapidly began exponentially incrementing their own intellectual growth. Rampant netwars soon exploded into physical conflicts with spiraling body counts. Transhumanity reaped the rewards of its arrogance when conflict spiked between the battered nations of Earth, already weakened by decades of climate catastrophes and other disruptive factors.
Death has been defeated-for those who can afford it.įrom within, disaster struck. People’s minds and memories can be digitized, uploaded, transferred over long distances, and downloaded into new bodies (biological or synthetic). Biotechnology allows people to genefix, enhance, and clone their bodies, while others pursue body modifications to adapt to new environments or make themselves into something no longer quite human. Everyone is wirelessly networked with the world around them, AIs process vast amounts of information, and nano-fabrication enables people to “print” complex devices from the molecular level-at home. Advancements in biotechnology, nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, and cognitive science have transformed our lives. Despite the ecopocalypse and social upheavals on Earth, humanity has conquered the solar system and partially terraformed Mars.
Humanity stands on the cusp of a new age, with accelerated technological growth converging toward a singularity point, promising an undreamt-of future.
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