On this September fourth, 2346 the sun rises high in its bright blue colours over galendria, the homeworld of humanity. One large city is perfectly divided into districts to create a perfect environment for all individuals. The north district is for electricity and network servers for users' connection with each other. The east is the residential district, with six hundred billion citizens living in physical and digital paradise. Computers and androids aid in the never-ending paradise for humans. All jobs are done by v.i androids. Humans are now totally converted to user synthetic bodies or full immersion v.r., the minds of the "player" is inserted into the digital world directly. The physical body is then of no use. They live in a virtual reality paradise of individual creation. Each player can create their reality, called servers. Some servers are commercial-like stores to get anything they desire. Others are video games to experience that adrenaline. Others for vacation and relaxation. All for free to all humans, forever. In the physical world, androids make sure of all needs of the users and players. To the West entertainment and commercial.
In the residential area, in a modest two-story home. A young man gets up from bed. " good morning Jake. I've started preparing breakfast for you. You may come and eat in fifteen minutes." a voice said in a pleasant tone. Jake stepped out of his room through a metal door that slides into the wall by the left. He went to the bathroom. In the bathroom is a liver-like toilet, a glass shower with a voice control interface and a motion sensor sink. He washes his face quickly. He brushes his long black hair. He has a very muscular, perfectly sculpted body. His body has a little hair. His left arm has runic art as a sleeve tattoo and his right arm has a sleeve tattoo of hell on his lower arm, it has a pit of fire with a mutilated corpse falling in. The tattoo goes up his arm to become an angel reaching his hand out to save the soul going to hell.
" information! You have an appointment with Daniel Carter in the network in twenty minutes." said the voice. " thanks Sarah." he said. He then finished and went to get dressed. When he finished he went to his office. The office is a pretty large room with a desk in the middle. The desk is a floating platform with a square glass PC screen, in the platform is a digital keyboard. The chair is of high-quality leather. It has a head cushion shaped to give maximum comfort during digital jumps. It has heat mode, cooling mode, six massage modes and even a sensory reactive mode. This mode is used primarily in screen-based video games, this chair mode makes it so that while you play, if your character is in a sandy area you will feel the sand on your feet or rocky area you feel small rocks under your feet like if under your shoes. He sat at the desk and reached for the back of his neck. When he touched the middle part, a part of it slides open revealing a plug-in port. "link begging " he said, then the thin side of the screen opened. A thin wire slides out and connected itself with the port in his neck. Suddenly the body becomes unanimated as his mind travels through an intimate world of programs. He lands in a never-ending supercity. He is at the "find it" headquarters. ( the find it company became famous for its simple yet efficient search engine, now most users have it connected as a digital home page.) "welcome sir! What page would you like to visit day" a beautiful young Asian woman said smiling with joy. She is only a program but still, some users feel surprised at how real the programs look. " code 3495 military number private 4869134." he said firmly. "one moment please "The women turned around and a door appears in front of them. He thanks her and then walks through the door.
The scenery changed completely. He now is on a tropical beach with a silver table and two chairs. He sat on one of the chairs looking at the amazing view. The air slowly brushed in his hair, the slight scent of the ocean and the tropical trees. " glad you made it" a black woman in her mid-thirties. He looked at her curious of why he was called in for an appointment.
She then begins. " everything on this page is fully confidential. Three weeks ago the exploriatus, an expansion ship stopped reporting its location." "so they just started building away from the empire. They probably wanted a net-free paradise," he said. She does not seem to agree. " that's what we thought before this." a window appears between them. " it's the only form of recording we could salvage. It's from user Timothy Green's eye recording." she added. It's a point-of-view video of a man running very fast from a creepy screaming creature. The screams sound loud but hollow, shadowy even, like that made sense. The man trips and falls to the ground. High amounts of blood splattered suggesting him spitting out blood. Then the video stops with the sound of his synthetic head being crushed.
Jake started realizing how important this meeting was. " that scream, it didn't sound like any known alien race." she agreed. "whatever that thing was, it's new. And we do know it is very hostile." she added. "all the planetary alliance needs to know of this to prepare for a possible attack," he said. " if we do that we will create a galaxy-wide panic. I have constructed a team for you to go and investigate ". He didn't seem to appreciate her words. " I've been out of the military game for 145 years, I'm sorry but I'm out," he said. " if this is what it looks like we need the best, you are the best we ever had. After this you may return to your activities but this is of galactical proportion", she said. He didn't like it but she was right. " one job, one time." he said. " I'll send the info to your user base. In the physical world, you will access the info and follow the instructions. Find out what happened. And good luck."
"link stop" the thin wire returned into the glass screen. In his mind is a computer. He accessed his received files. One of them is titled Search. He opened the file. The names of all his crew and their specialties. It also says he is to go to the Mason military base for take-off.