Things need to change.

Things are gonna change.

Just not necessarily for the better.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FvXqVH0gmGYo1186uqFsrXTs-2eZvHhW/view?usp=drive_link
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Shared-drive PDF for viewing. First two chapters. Lot of little rough snags. Still not sure what year in the 2400s I can set this in.

I said I was gonna write something UF-y! It was gonna be in the universe! I've done my best to make it sectioned off enough it doesn't have to necessarily contradict canon, too! And there's enough fun ideas in there that I hope don't ruffle anyone's feathers.

Ideally more is to come, but I'm pitching this out to a wider universe of people who know and have worked on this world more than I have. Don't hesitate to point out if there's a point someplace that I'm missing. Playing in a sandbox that predates DOOM is a privilege and responsibility.

For what little it's worth, I'm working with the following stories here:
1. The world of Novo Solo and Marvin Beck are from the video game Brigador, and the whole Great Leader dictatorship is well within that game's lore. The vague events of the game might be referenced, unsure. Beck is a fun enough character to read that I want to try to use him more.

2. Shouko is from one of countless light novel-based franchises from the boom of the early 2010's, Unbreakable Machine Doll. Hot Geisha Mad Scientist type was too cool of an idea to pass up, even if Machine-Doll relies more on a magic system I can't enjoy because it uses terms Fate and the work of Kinoko Nasu use to far greater effect. I haven't really *consumed* that much machine-doll, but I'm stealing an idea from it because it's a fun idea.

3. Gundam, with Psychoframe and Anaheim Electronics and, uh, that girl.

4. Resident Evil, with Victor Gideon - a mad scientist played so straight in the game you can't help but enjoy him being thus - and the thing underneath the city.

Anyway, let me know if I can / should / ought to keep writing this, and I'll keep this fic inching forward. I'm having fun writing fic, for the first time in a long time!