Corporate Eclipse
In a future not so far, or so different from our own, millions are slaves to the corporations that now exist to serve the few at the top. CytoSynth Pharmaceutical, Star-Lance Industries, and Terra Celestial sit at the top of a unified Corporatocratic government. Forced genetic modifications, impossible living conditions, and mechanical exosuits called R.I.G.s have become an everyday part of life that led the way to a Utopian life for those chosen to receive it.
For everyone else, each day is hell.
Forced to work deep inside the underwater moons of Jupiter, high up in the magnificent floating capitals of Venus, or deep under the domed cities of Mars, the result was always the same. You work to provide for those above you and then die, forfeiting your body to be used in countless other applications.
No one escapes the Corporatocracy, not even in death.
Owen Hale, son of one of the most powerful people in the interstellar Corporatocracy, and CEO of CytoSynth Pharmaceutical, Marcus Hale, uncovers a chilling secret about the their projects. The most disturbing of which, is that his father is using his own genetic material to produce a human capable of having their consciousness ripped away from their body and inserted into a new version of his companies exoskeleton. All for the sake of producing a better product than his competitor. And next on that list is his newest sister, sixty four.
Using the evolutionary modifications he received at birth, Owen and his sister set out on a mission to escape CytoSynth Industries and flee to humanities original home world of Earth in an effort to find a mysterious boy named Bit. Though not everything goes according to plan.
Unbeknownst to Bit, these two strangers set him on a journey into the furthest reaches of the stars, running headlong into a rebellion decades in the making.
Finding an expensive looking, fully armored R.I.G. hiding away in the deserts near his home, he learns that the AI inside sounds more like a real person than an unthinking machine. Leading him to have conversations with the entity, eventually convincing the AI accept him as it’s new pilot. Now equipped with resources he only dreamed of, Bit begins using it as his own personal salvage R.I.G., learning it has capabilities beyond anything he’s ever seen.
Not long after though, a woman approaches him about the suit. Using a genetic tracker that now links him to the R.I.G. and entangling themselves within her mission. A naïve boy smitten by this mysterious girl, he follows her, unwittingly giving the rebellion the final piece to commence their plans of bringing down the Corporatocracy once and for all, and regaining control over their own lives.
With his new family of smugglers, mercenaries, and rebels, Bit rushes headlong into the adventure he had always dreamed of. But will they succeed in overthrowing an interstellar government with every resource imaginable at their disposal? Will the mysterious girl who tricked him into this rebellion ever realize he’s more than just a kid? Or will they all be swept away by the Corporatocracy, never to be seen, heard, or even remembered again by all of those still struggling?
JoshuaMack · SF
