Factions

## **Introduction Message**

KEEPERCODE 884: ACCESS\_TO\_VIEW\_MESSAGE - **GRANTED**

*"There is no crime in Virtual World. There is no war in Virtual World. There's only peace and harmony in*

Virtual World. One would think it is true, but one would be wrong. Welcome to NeuroNet, place where order

became chaos, where peace became war, and where harmony has turned into a massive crime. NeuroNet,

created by Tesseract, the multi-billionaire organization supported by the World Government, has or at least

had NeuroNet's protector - A.I. Keeper. After evolving and becoming more intelligent, Keeper decided to

take over the control of NeuroNet and to become independent from Tesseract. The battle evolves from

greed of the three organizations that fight over the control of NeuroNet. Tesseract fights in order to return

Keeper under its control; Xanctuary fights in order to protect and serve Keeper; and last but not least:

bit.crash - a group of hackers, anarchists, and data terrorists, who want to destroy NeuroNet once and for

all. Which side will be your desired choice, Slicer?" *- KEEPER*

## **The Corporations**

#### **Tesseract: The Corporation**

*"Connecting the world to the future."* — Company slogan

The multinational corporation that created the NeuroNet, and the Keeper AI to watch over it. After losing
control of the AI — an event they maintain was not their fault, but an act of calculated sabotage —
Tesseract is now fighting to regain control of the network, and find out the cause of the Keeper's rebellion. If
they can learn why it went rogue, perhaps they can bring it back under their control...

**Backstory/Information:**
Built the NeuroNet and Keeper, lost control when the Keeper declared independence
CEO Devon Khorto, creator of the NeuroNet program, hasn't been seen since the company went into
financial freefall
Has the govt and defence industry firmly on its side, both to ensure the NeuroNet doesn't endanger them,
but also to try and regain control to use the NeuroNet for their own ends.

#### **Xanctuary: The Utopians**

(Pron. "Sanctuary")

*"These fragile bodies are too weak to contain man's superior intelligence. The Keeper has shown us the way, and we will join him in paradise... but first, we must make this tainted paradise clean again." —* Xanctuary leader Sashia Fontaine, speaking at the virtual EdenLight conference one week after the Keeper
declared independence

Digital Utopians who believe the Keeper is a new divine intelligence, and the NeuroNet its holy paradise.
Their ultimate goal is to upload themselves into the network and live eternally in an undying paradise of
pure intelligence. But first, they must cleanse the network of materialist greed, volatile anarchists, and
anyone else who stands in the way of their own ascension to digimortality.

**Backstory/Information:**
Formed 30 years ago by leader Sashia Fontaine, famed extropian and self-styled 'life philosopher'.
Known to be forward thinking, modernist, early adopters of tech.
Hundreds of thousands of members all over the world, many of them accomplished Slicers.

#### **Bit.Crash: The Anarchists**

*"You will never find us... because we are everywhere. You will never see us... because we are nowhere. You will only know... when we have beaten you." — Anonymous viral message*

A loose collective of hackers, anarchists, and data terrorists who believe the NeuroNet is a final harbinger
of the death of privacy, and thus freedom, for ordinary people. With governments under the control of
corporations like Tesseract, and corporations controlled by the 0.0001%, BitCrash sees no alternative but
to destroy the NeuroNet completely, even if it also destroys society in the process.

**Backstory/Information:**
A loose collective of digital anarchists and Black Slicers.
Formed days after the Keeper declared independence, rumour has it by NeuroNet architect and
programmer Andram Estival.
Membership impossible to quantify; anyone willing to fight for bit.crash's cause is considered a member.