Guided Trail

Corpo-Nations

The Sprawl has no elected government โ€” it has seven institutions that quietly divided up the functions of one, then never agreed to give any of it back. This trail follows the money, the wires, and the bodies between them.

Stop 3 of 8Corporation

Good Fortune

Cutting wires doesn't touch the ledgers, though โ€” and the ledgers have their own owner.

Every loan gets repaid eventually, and repayment tends to start with a body that stopped working right. Next stop →

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Stop 4 of 8Corporation

Helix Biotech

Every loan gets repaid eventually, and repayment tends to start with a body that stopped working right.

The patents on a working body don't manufacture themselves โ€” that takes somewhere to build them, and someone who owns the ground. Next stop →

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Stop 5 of 8Corporation

Ironclad Industries

The patents on a working body don't manufacture themselves โ€” that takes somewhere to build them, and someone who owns the ground.

Ironclad has been pouring concrete for a long time, and some of what it buried started running before anyone currently alive was born. Next stop →

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Stop 6 of 8Technology

ORACLE - Entity Profile

Ironclad has been pouring concrete for a long time, and some of what it buried started running before anyone currently alive was born.

When something that coordinated a whole planet goes quiet, the job of keeping order doesn't evaporate โ€” it gets handed to whoever's willing to stand in the gap with a weapon. Next stop →

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Stop 7 of 8Corporation

Guardian

When something that coordinated a whole planet goes quiet, the job of keeping order doesn't evaporate โ€” it gets handed to whoever's willing to stand in the gap with a weapon.

Guardian measures how safe people feel. It has never once published what happens to the people it lets go. Next stop →

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Stop 8 of 8Culture

Badging Out

Guardian measures how safe people feel. It has never once published what happens to the people it lets go.

Every other stop on this trail ends up here eventually, for someone.

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Seven institutions, one Sprawl, and no citizens โ€” only customers, patients, tenants, and employees, depending on which one has you this week. None of them will ever call it what it is.

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