The Resurgence begins. By 2144 mankind has returned to its pre-Ascension state. AI research is outlawed. Megacorps and organized religion form the basis of global government and economy. Lack of regional governments and everyone enduring the Cold Boot has led to less poverty and third world geographies…most of the globe has emerged from the Cold Boot at the same rate, and to the same state. Man is mostly at peace. Population is swelling due to 100 years of mankind’s survival instinct leading to an extremely elevated level of procreation. Resources again become constrained. Scientists and engineers in the megacorps race to bring Ascension’s core dump of theories to fruition. Megacorps use the churches to keep the populace in line as society becomes striated along socioeconomic lines more than ever in human history. The populace are heavily dependent on the corps to bring them out of the Digital Dark Age. Megacorps share the wonders of their technology with the populace in exchange for servitude or intellectual prowess. The Megacorp Wars begin, and never end. It’s a war carried out in subterfuge and subtlety. Fought in the boardrooms, labs, ContinuumThe Continuum is the greater fabric of the Triocracy's alternate reality. Within this Fabric resides the ability for data communication as well as, if rumors are true, the ability for matter transfer ... More/iSpace, and eventually among the stars. The prize? More technology, more power, more world (and beyond) domination. This war is often brutal, but almost transparent to the general populace. The race for FTL supremacy, and galactic diasporaFollowing the end of the Transcendence War (2300-2310 CE), the remainder of humanity flee Earth for other stars, establishing colonies under the protection/preservation of various corporate entities t... More, has begun. The AI known as AscensionAscension is the first artificial intelligence to reach sentience in the early 21st century. There are various theories as to how Ascension came to be. History is vague on its origin due to the Earthl... More is all but forgottenThe Forgotten, the Lost, Lurkers ... they are known by many names, but their officially accepted name is the Obscurum. These are citizens of the Triocracy, with means and reasons, who have chosen to f... More as mankind focuses on what was left behind.

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iRON by Kuldar Leement