The Story
Project BADSECTOR
Three months after being fired from Veridian Systems you find a daemon on a dead drive - vellum-04, written by someone else, running anyway. A fixer named KESTREL finds you next. She sees a careful operator. She offers small jobs.
Buried in a corporate cache you pull a fragment: "BADSECTOR is not a product. BADSECTOR is a response condition."
It's a kill protocol. Subnet-wide persona erasure, triggered at ¥1,000,000 accrued. Someone built it to erase people like you - before you became a problem.
You're already past ¥12,000.
Acts
5 Story Acts
Threshold
¥1,000,000
Protocol
BADSECTOR
Gameplay
Core Systems
SYS::DUAL_TENSION
Heat & Trace
Trace resets each run. Heat doesn't. Every job you take pushes the corps closer to your door - and at 100°, they stop looking and start hunting.
SYS::PASSIVE_INCOME
Daemon Network
Deploy daemons on target networks. They earn ¥ while you sleep - until the corps notice them. Upgrade your rig to run more, earn faster, burn slower.
SYS::NETWORK_GRAPH
The Run
Each contract drops you into a procedurally-generated node graph. Navigate WHITE, GRAY, and BLACK ICE. Find the objective. Extract before your trace ceiling collapses.
SYS::CREW_NETWORK
Crew
Recruit operators from the underground. Each brings a passive edge - heat decay, trace shielding, daemon boosts. Each carries a story you'll want to finish.
ICE Classification
WHITE ICE
Simple skill check. Entry-level defense.
GRAY ICE
Moderate resistance. Mid-network standard.
BLACK ICE
Timed rapid-tap. Miss the window and you burn.
Preview
Screenshots
Operators
Your Crew
Recruit from the underground. Up to three active at once. Each one changes how you run. Each one has something to lose.
KESTREL
Fixer // Contact
Tired. Careful. She finds you first. Former architect of the very system you're running against.
MARROW
Ice-Breaker
One rule: disconnect first, questions later. Heat decay +2/h. Has a sister upstate she won't stop protecting.
¥8,000
PHANTOM
Ghost Runner
Moves through systems without touching anything. Trace shield - −2 per node visited. You'll never know they were there.
¥18,000
FUSE
Daemon Specialist
Wrote BADSECTOR v1 at 22. Believes data isn't property. Now he's hunted. Daemon rate +0.5 ¥/s.
¥25,000
KOI
Infiltrator
Three years inside VANTAGE GROUP. No backup. She placed the fragment you found. She knows what BADSECTOR actually is.
story-locked
Setting
The Subnet
The megacity runs on data. Corporations lock their secrets behind layers of ICE while freelancers - hackers, couriers, ghosts - grind in the underground network below it all.
Your rig is your weapon. Daemons are your employees. Heat is your enemy. The subnet never sleeps and neither do the corps watching it.
Rig Tiers
T1 → T5
Daemon Slots
1 → 5
Research Topics
19 + 6 Advanced
Story Acts
5 Acts
Corporations
The Opposition
VANTAGE GROUP
Primary AntagonistNever dissolved. Restructured into seven subsidiaries. Approved the BADSECTOR directive. You worked for them once.
MIRA SYSTEMS
Enforcement ArmSweeps subnets. Hunts operators. At high heat, they stop filing reports and start sending people.
HELIX
Logistics CorpInfrastructure and delivery at scale. Cooks their numbers. Low-tier contracts, low suspicion - until it isn't.
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Jack In
No pay-to-win. The threshold is ¥1,000,000. What happens when you cross it - that's the game.
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