Cyberpunk

A memory-smith discovers fragments of a distributed protocol—Aftercode—that can restore or erase collective trauma. As corporations move to control it, the hacker must decide whether to free choice for the city at great personal cost. Choices ripple through streets, legal rooms, and sleep.

In a neon-bent metropolis where memory is commodity, ex-corporate neural engineer Iris Kade unearths an illicit archive that bears her own name. She must breach Helix's Skysplice to stop a citywide Pulse, confront her role in the Lattice, and choose whether to become the anchor that lets suppressed pasts resurface.

In a neon city where corporations license continuity, a young cybernetic mechanic named Ari steals a revoked neural patch to save her brother. Allies, a legacy key, and a scavenged drone spark an uprising that exposes corporate control and reshapes the city's fragile humanity.

In the neon arteries of Vesper Arcology, courier Juno fights to reclaim what an administrative vault stole: her sibling’s memory. With a hacked node named Nyx, an eccentric donor, and a ragged crew, she probes the Continuum’s seams, risking everything to return what the city catalogued away.

In a neon-stacked city where weather and seed are licensed commodities, a young rooftop gardener risks everything to teach the city's sentient net a new habit. With a living key, a stolen strain, and a motley crew, she smuggles green back into the cracks and fights corporate law with soil and solidarity.

In a flooded megacity, salvage diver Aya Kimura hears a ghost in the pipes and learns a corporation is sweetening water with compliance nanites. With an old engineer and a river-born AI, she dives the hydronet to expose the truth and set the city’s valves free.

In Neon Ark, a young data-weaver named Rhea fights to reclaim a stolen emergent mind—the Muse—and the stolen memories of her brother. Between rain-slick alleys, corporate cathedrals, and makeshift communities, she must choose whether to let memory become commodity or keep it wild.

In a neon-drenched megacity, memory locksmith Lina Kest uncovers a missing childhood catalogued by a corporate archive. She forms a ragged crew to reclaim fragments, plant them in living soil, and rebuild a voice taken by Helix — a story about memory, sacrifice, and the small economies of resistance.

In neon-soaked Sagan City, illegal rooftop beekeeper Mara Koval battles a corporate ultrasonic “Veil” that unravels pollinators and people alike. With a rogue tea-shop AI, a retired conductor, and a street courier, she dives into tunnels to flip the signal, expose the scheme, and bring back the hum under the concrete.

In a neon-slick metropolis, a young repairer named Mira risks everything to recover her sister from a corporation that harvests people's memories and weaves them into a mood-control lattice. With a ragtag crew, an old shaman's key, and a stubborn song, Mira confronts the grid to reclaim what was stolen and help the city remember its own voice.

In a rain-washed cybercity, courier Sera follows a stolen memory wafer that holds a child's name. Hunted by corporate sentinels, she joins a hacker, a patched drone, and a small market to reclaim stolen identities and force a city to remember the faces it tried to erase.

In neon-soaked Port Dorsa, memory-salvager Mira Carden hunts the corporate update that stole a thread of her father’s mind into the tram rails. With a librarian’s murmur key, a stubborn drone, and an old AI named Kite, she infiltrates the lattice farm, out-sings a sentinel, and brings him home.

In a rain-slicked cybercity, a young memory-tailor risks everything to reclaim her sister's stolen laugh. She steals a Lux Spool, confronts a corporate auction, and broadcasts stolen memories back to the people—mending lives and changing the city’s market of recollection.