Join Cipher, a weary and troubled detective, returning to the police force after a string of disappearances, most recently of a past love, the acclaimed Jazz singer Evangeline.
Begin a startling mystery on a routine case and follow an Imperium scientist conducting unethical neural interface experiments as they flee to the rural ghost town of Blackwood.
Though Imoptic technology – aligning with a pro-transhuman ideology – is an industry standard and common in every social class, they pose a problem for those whose lesser bodies and bodies wholly reject them.
Headed by the megacorporation, Imperium, and a push for automatization, smart systems, and transhumanism, the margins between social strata expand with no end in sight: What happens to those left behind in the wake of progress?
