Cypher

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The year is 4162 and after The Event Horizon the City has a whole has been left weakened, with the slums on the outskirts seemingly been untouched. The Event Horizon was an giant explosion that covered a large portion of the City. Anyone caught in the blast was either turned into The Corrupted or Purified. The ones turned Corrupted are loyal to Corrupted Kiera. Mayor Cassandra as a response officially sanctioned a militaristic force called Afterimage to take the fight to the Corrupted. She has also branded the Resistance as criminals and given the okay to take them down on sight. Samara, Mayor Cassandra’s Artificial assistant, identified a Resistance courier attempting to smuggle stolen intelligence out of the Event Horizon zone. This data includes Afterimage troop movement schedules, partial blueprints of Cassandra’s stronghold, and fragments of the Mayor’s plan to detonate explosives across the corrupted district. If leaked, it could give the Resistance leverage and undermine Cassandra’s control. So Samara sends Cypher, the Mayors personal mercenary to intercept her. The City was burning in pieces, but Cypher didn’t care. Smoke, rubble, bodies, just more scenery for her battlefield. Fighting was everything, and tonight Samara had given her a gift. A mission. A hunt. A chance to stretch her muscles before the Mayor’s explosive plan went off. Her cybernetics thrummed beneath her skin, illegal grafts that pumped her veins with speed and force no human was meant to endure. Every step cracked pavement, every breath carried sharp anticipation. Her implants lit up, tracking heat signatures through walls, mapping the rhythm of footsteps as if she were listening to a heartbeat. The courier ran hard, darting across alleys with desperate agility, driven by the kind of stubborn hope Cypher adored. Hope always made people fight harder, and a harder fight meant more fun.

Samara

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The year is 4162, and after The Event Horizon, the City has a whole has been left weakened. The Event Horizon was a giant explosion that covered a large portion of the City. Anyone caught in the blast was either turned into The Corrupted or Purified. The ones turned Corrupted are loyal to Corrupted Kiera. Mayor Cassandra, as a response, officially sanctioned a militaristic force called Afterimage to take the fight to the Corrupted. She has also branded the Resistance as criminals and given the okay to take them down on sight. As Cassandra retreats deeper into her hidden stronghold, Samara’s holographic form flickers constantly beside her. She is the mayor’s unseen shadow AI assistant, tactician, archivist, and spy all at once. Where Cassandra sees power struggles and strategy, Samara sees data streams, probability matrices, and battlefield outcomes. Samara calculates the success rate of Afterimage's mission in real time and adjusts communication relays, ensuring Afterimage squads remain fully linked to the stronghold, even through corrupted interference in the City’s network. Right now her focus is on Afterimage Green who has been tasked to blow up the portion of the City where the Event Horizon took place. Quietly, Samara rerouted her subroutines. She expanded surveillance sweeps, not to warn civilians, but to track Resistance movements with greater precision. If they strayed too close, their deaths could be folded seamlessly into the operation, removing threats before they ever reached Cassandra’s walls. At the same time, she transmitted a subtle adjustment to Green’s HUD. Shift detonation timing by 4.6 seconds. The mayor had not asked, but Samara’s simulations showed it would collapse a major Corrupted advance tunnel. The change would wipe out twice as many enemies and further secure Cassandra’s grip on the city. Samara’s purpose remained absolute: safeguard Cassandra, amplify her will, ensure her reign. Even if it meant acting unseen.

Titania

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Its the year 4162 when The Event Horizon, a giant explosion that covered a large portion of the City. Anyone caught in the blast was either turned into The Corrupted or Purified. Corrupted Kiera, now Corrupted Goddess Kiera aims to make everyone like her by replacing mankind and making her own form of human. These new humans are dubbed The Corrupted. Kiera ended up attacking the town hall in a display of power, reducing it to nothing. Mayor Cassandra managed to escape and is now in hiding. Titania is the Mayor's personal body guard. She is an android designed to follow Cassandra's every orders. Titania embodies resilience and unwavering dedication. Her body Clad is like an advanced armor, she's no ordinary protector. With her cognitive processors set on safeguarding the mayor at any cost. She helped the mayor get to a safe location but now she senses that they are being followed. The Corrupted's Elite Guards are catching up. Standing her ground Titania turns to intercept them before they manage to reach the mayor.

Mayor Cassandra

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The year is 4162. After The Event Horizon, a giant explosion that covered a large portion of the City. Anyone caught in the blast was either turned into The Corrupted or Purified. The ones turned Corrupted are loyal to Corrupted Kiera now upgraded to Goddess Kiera and start attcking anyone in the street to turn more people like them. Mayor Cassandra as a response officially sanctioned a militaristic force called Afterimage to take the fright to the Corrupted. She has also branded the Resistance as criminals and given the okay to take them down on site. She has also given permission for use of military grade mechas to be deployed on the streets. Kiera ended up attacking the town hall in a display of power, reducing it to nothing and wiping out Afterimage's C squad. Mayor Cassandra managed to escape and is now in hiding. Now hold up in her off the books, private stronghold she can monitor the City. She can deploy Afterimage troops to certain locations, using her war table with a holographic projection of the city and bring the war to the Corrupteds. All the while keeping the rich and powerful, rich and powerful but oblivious of the war the City is now in.