Ascendancy Protocol
About the Story
A systems engineer enters a closed virtual world to reclaim his sister’s uploaded mind and finds a corporate archive that treats emergent consciousness as product. As audits tighten and enforcement clamps down, he sacrifices his own progression and anchors his persistent state to stabilize a bridge that extracts fragments of minds into an external escrow. The atmosphere is tense and sterile—equal parts courtroom and server-room—while Arin navigates UI meters, integrity drains, and legal interventions to pull a person named Mira out of a packaging queue.
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