Cyber Apocrypha: Worldbuilding and Stories

[Note: This is a setting collection and story outline, not a traditional web novel. If you enjoy hardcore worldbuilding and cyberpunk wasteland aesthetics, stay and take a look. If you only want a serialized, TV-style novel, proceed with caution.]

This is a story about "immortality": when technology turns eternal life from myth into reality, humanity discovers it has lost the ability to love. Gu Changsheng, heir to a corporate conglomerate, stands on a rooftop, tears in his eyes, and says, "There is no love in the cyber age." Then he turns toward the operating table and has himself remade into a heartless machine.

But he doesn't know that the path to immortality he pursues will drag the entire universe into a thousand-year reign of bloody tyranny.

Centuries later, an orphan who crawls out of corpses and ashes will use a set of shackles called the "Protocol" to turn love into a weapon, brides into warriors, and desire into fuel. He wants to overthrow the old gods, only to discover that he is becoming a new god. He wants to save the world, but first he must destroy it with his own hands.

This is a cybernetic epic poem about technological alienation and the struggle of human nature, a cruel parable about how civilization devours itself in despair, then rises again from the ashes.