User:TheCrimsonOracle/Cyberpunk: Novel Project

The year is 2013...

In 1984, Olympia, an upstart company from Silicon Valley, launched. Created by twenty-one-year-old John Maus and his eighteen-year-old brother, Kevin Maus, Olympia was originally created as a gaming company for early virtual reality simulators. Olympia's easy controls, seamless gameplay, and user-friendliness. The Maus brothers quickly made millions off of this idea. The two worked on improving this idea. Despite heavy competition from Apple Inc., the company quickly rose to the charts. By 1990, Olympia became an international company at the top of almost every nation's computer market.

Olympia began creating computers in 1991, leading to the buyout of Apple Inc. in 1992. By 1996, almost everyone owned an Olympia machine. 1999 saw the creation of the Athena Chip, a powerful retinal chip that created a UI interface in the user's eye, enhancing his/her vision. Athena 2.0 was a complete revamp, the cybernetics package enhancing senses and allowing for stimulants to be delivered to a user's system, allowing for higher pain tolerance, concentration, and strength. More cybernetic upgrades were created, including implants to improve recollection of events, strength, and other abilities.

Soldiers began using these to improve their combat abilities. Unfortunately, the world was plunged into World War III in late 2001. With the USSR on one side and the USA on the other, the Warsaw and NATO powers entered a massive war, leading to the creation of the Ares augmentations, created chiefly for combat. Onboard tactical computers inside the minds of generals prevented all-out nuclear war. The war ended in 2006, when the United States launched the HADES virus into Russia. The virus was non-lethal, but it led to the biological rejection of these cybernetics. People with massive amounts of augmentations went into shock, including soldiers.

The United States and her allies entered a post-war era of happiness, with counteragents to HADES being released in the water to prevent HADES from affecting Americans should it be spread to the US. During this post-war era, massive amounts of cybernetics were produced, including the Hermes OS, a multipurpose operating system for most electronic things. In 2010, however, HADES mutated. The counteragent no longer worked. People with too many cybernetics suffered mental psychosis or rejection of the cybernetics. Furthermore, crops in the midwest began to die out, leading to mass starvations in the United States. A similar disaster occurred in Europe.

The year is now 2013. Mass bankruptcy and corruption of the legal system following the HADES disaster has led to riots and skyrocketing crime rates. With criminal syndicates running cities and corporations, the police became an ineffective body. In September, the Justice Act was passed, enabling the mercenary group Atlas to operate legally to hunt down and detain criminals. Atlas, known for its harsh methods, quickly began threatening people and business for money, detaining or executing without due process. As 2013 closes, people are desperate for civility to return. A coalition of street gangs is taking a stand against Atlas. In Boston, a group of hackers, outlaws, freedom fighters, and other men and women upset by the atrocities committed by Atlas plans to launch a revolution that will free the nation.

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