The Isle

The Isle was a location in V.E.R.S.I.O.N.. It was located in Singapore. It was the most important structure in Singapore, being an offshore and completely self-sufficient seascraper. It was built to solve issues of shrinking urban shorelines and increasing energy shortages. 
1500ft (457m) tall, the Isle contained luxury residences, commercial offices and recreational areas (such as parks, casinos, movie theatres, golf courses etc). It was self-sufficient in power, possessing a photovoltaic skin and deep sea turbines. The skin provided power on a small scale for things like street lighting and wireless charging, with the turbines providing the bulk of the structure's power, harvesting slow, super-dense ocean currents for energy. At the depths the turbines operate, water density provides much more energy than anything that could be achieved by alternatives such as windturbines. Excess power could be stored. The Isle also had its own desalination plant on the lower levels, providing it with all the fresh water it required. 
The Isle was the headquarters of Axcentric Systems, who owned a substantial portion of it, including the power turbines.
In 2050, the Isle was sunk by Superstorm Daisy. It is rumoured that underwater salvagers plundered the wreck to acquire equipment that allowed them to produce counterfeit augmentations, which rapidly spread onto the augmentation market. Because these counterfeits could be risky to the point of proving fatal, in Switzerland, augmentation companies were allowed to have access to the body of a person who allegedly died from faulty augmentations for twenty-four hours, parallel to police investigations, in order to execute a full-body scan to allow company legal teams time to determine the warranty of the augmentations and to confirm they were legally acquired from the company, allowing them to prepare for a wrongful death suit if this was the case.
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