Unturned Stones
a world defined by the technology of your future
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c@neutral ~ >> HI!
c@neutral ~ >> OH, WAIT.
c@neutral ~ >> COMPILERR -P P.AL
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c@neutral ~ >> ONE MORE THING...
c@neutral ~ >> DISPLAYGUI -D F9000:233:00001
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c@neutral ~ >> IT is I the magnificent curator!
i am here to absolve you of your confusion.
Welcome to Unturned Stones - a world defined by the technology of today’s future.
This world was magnificent, yet dark.
It tested everything it meant to be human.
No flash photography.
Now, please scroll to the FIRST exhibit.
pROs.TXT - PROSTHETIC SOUL
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In the distant future, during one of many nameless conflicts among the interstellar descendants of Earth, a technology was perfected that could replace a person's morality with programmable ethics. It was called the prosthetic soul.
everyware.TXT - everyware
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As cybertechnology became smaller and more widespread, computers took their ultimate role in the form of everyware. Microchips reached true ubiquity in everything from knives to doors to roads. Code was no longer was a specialization - it became a second language, and a requirement for living in the new age.
kaizen_ai.TXT - kaizen AI
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Artificial intelligence advanced far beyond expectations. Cloud-based services deployed by corporations and governments eventually replaced the white-collar, leaving behind niche professions and a growing grey-collar workforce. These hyper-intelligent expert systems, called kaizen, would eventually integrate with everyware to become much more than what they were originally designed for.
slipstrim_ftl.TXT - slipstream
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After centuries of interstellar rocketry, a laboratory accident turned the fantasy of faster-than-light transfer into a part of everyday life. Superluminal Interstellar Projection Stream, or SLIPSTREAM, was supposed to bring the world closer together.
Cybertechnology was honed as a tool of perfect oppression.
How could anyone resist something they didn't know was happening?
How does one defy a weapon designed in its entirety to target everything that makes you, you?
The new world order emerged in a way no one expected.
re.TXT - reset
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With the emergence of a globalized, post-scarcity society, a doomed world order rooted in materialistic imperialism collapsed during the Reset, giving way to a new system in which war was obsolete, ethics were a mere suggestion, and information became more relevant than commodities and products.
pravos.TXT - pravo powers
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From the chaos, four nations rose to power, taking advantage of new technologies and doctrines to place themselves and their ideologies ahead of each other on the interstellar stage. These self-aware regimes became known as the Pravo powers.
trrition.TXT - attrition
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Armed with the ability to program their troops, spies, and officials using the prosthetic soul; to destabilize their rivals using black operations; and to engineer their own societies en masse using kaizen; these nations would end up locked in spiteful rivalry, manifesting itself as a clandestine conflict known as the Attrition.
As the tension between the Pravo powers escalated, the ideals that they once stood for were slowly abandoned in favor of improving the effectiveness of their society. Free will and privacy eroded in favor of state security and brutal efficiency.
rf-.TXT - Rift
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Meanwhile, bizarre anomalies discovered on the expanding frontiers - starships from the future, derelict human civilizations, supernatural timeloops - began to bring everything about humanity's place among the stars into question.
Nothing was the way it seemed.
Fell
Would you
How does one defy a weapon designed in its entirety to target everything that makes you, you?
c@neutral ~ >> NOW, .
c@neutral ~ >> COMPILERR -P P.AL
The new world order emerged in a way no one expected.
