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The short version
One breakthrough. Four layers of control.
Soulkiller is easiest to understand when the systems around it stop being treated as interchangeable names.
Soulkiller converts a person's neural information into a digital personality construct — an engram.
The disturbing part is what happens next. Arasaka controls the vault that stores the construct, the service that sells access to it, and the research programme trying to give it another body. The technology turns identity into infrastructure.
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Old NET lineage
Soulkiller's shadow reaches the Blackwall.
A technical branch runs through R.A.B.I.D.S., the DataKrash and the network NetWatch eventually abandoned behind the wall.
R.A.B.I.D.S. seeded
Bartmoss seeds autonomous attack programs whose architecture is tied to a twisted branch of Soulkiller.
The DataKrash
The dead-man trigger fires. R.A.B.I.D.S. tear through the Old NET and help turn it into a hostile ruin.
The Blackwall
NetWatch contains what it cannot clean, partitioning human cyberspace from the worst of the Old NET.
Something still answers
Alt exists beyond the Blackwall while Mikoshi holds human constructs on the safe side of the divide.
The recovered-node interface is site fiction; the underlying lore is sourced and marked inside each record. How sourcing works ↗
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Choose a trace
Go deeper only where you want to.
The homepage stops here. The long-form material lives in focused routes instead of one endless scroll.
Alt Cunningham
Alt's ITS work began as a matrix for artificial personalities and became the foundation of Soulkiller. ITS weaponized and named it; in 2013 Arasaka forced Alt to recreate a mobile version from scratch.
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Mikoshi is Arasaka's secure cyberspace infrastructure for storing and controlling digitized personalities from Soulkiller victims and Secure Your Soul clients.
Read record ↗Anders Hellman
Anders Hellman directed Arasaka's Relic Project, authored the Relic 2.0 prototype specification, and carried the project's report and blueprints with him when he attempted to defect to Kang Tao.
Read record ↗The Blackwall
The Blackwall is NetWatch's containment barrier separating human-accessible cyberspace from Old NET regions dominated by rogue artificial intelligences.
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