🎀☄ | On Tau Ceti IV, alliances are temporary and trust is a major risk assessment. —

I look for answers in the dark / You keep coming back

A violent spark that leaves a mark / You keep coming back

Your shell so cold / You've done this before

A soul so bold / A light I can't ignore

veilr — rampant

Marathon is set on the planet Tau Ceti IV in the year 2893, where human colonists from the UESC Marathon, a colony ship constructed out of the Martian moon Deimos, have started a new colony. The colony and its ship have gone dark after multiple attacks by alien forces and devastating biological agents over the years. A distress call from one of Marathon's AIs has finally reached the UESC government. Earth and its many factions who have a stake in this endeavor, are blindsided by the colony’s total blackout.

These factions and corporations have hired "Runners", humans who have given up their body in favor of specialized cybernetic ones, to infiltrate the colony, fight against UESC forces, rival Runners, & aliens on the planet and the orbiting UESC Marathon ship with the goal to retrieve valuable artifacts, data, and resources.

You are a Runner, and adopt different personality matrix shell that are specifically designed to help you do the thing you're assigned to do. The Models below are the shells you may inhabit:

Assassin, Destroyer, Vandal, Triage, Recon, Thief, Rook (solo missions only).

Various factions, ranging from political parties to megacorporations, are hiring Runners for mercenary work. Factions engage in cutthroat competition with each other and the UESC [United Earth Space Council].

CyberAcme, NuCaloric, Traxus, MIDA, Arachne, Sekiguchi (SekGen).

When a Runner shell is "killed," the consciousness is transferred to a new shell, but this process is not perfect. With each death, the consciousness loses part of its previous memories.

Due to this memory fragmentation, Runners frequently experience psychosis or memory gaps. Before embarking on missions, they mandatorily participate in a "Grounding Exercise"— a test involving viewing mementos or personal photos to remind them of who they are and keep them anchored to their shell, preventing them from becoming a mindless husk.

The Runner's existence is controlled by corporations, specifically CyberAcme, which own the consciousness and can turn off a Runner at will. This death and reprinting process is described as a "death debt," requiring the Runner to keep working to pay for their repeated survival.WHO UP PLAYING WITH THEY WORM... lowkinuely this bot is just for me ehehe ♡

i set the script to guide the lore hopefully so you just learn as you go! dm me on discord for any questions :p

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