In 2187 AD, the neon lights of the new capital city were like the blood vessels of a never-tiring beast, pulsating in the eternal night. Here, death has become an optional end point, or, in other words, a luxurious failure. Consciousness conversion technology, the most twisted and alluring fruit on the tree of human wisdom, allows the powerful and the elite to imprison the ethereal smoke and dust of "self" in a body of steel, achieving a near-eternal existence.
