The streets of Watson were in chaos. Batman was still patrolling the rooftops, watching crime eat away at the neighborhood. Memories of his first days in Gotham, when he was just starting to fight crime, flashed through his mind.
But Knight City seemed several times more dangerous. Technology, weapons, cyber-psychosis-all of it made his job that much harder.
And yet he didn't give up. He stopped robberies, prevented murders, saved innocents.
After several skirmishes with street criminals, Batman decided to learn more about local gangs. He knew that to effectively fight crime, he needed to know who was behind it.
He interrogated the criminals he caught, extracting information from them about Watson's most powerful gangs. The name that came up most often was Malstrom.
Malström is a gang of cyber-psychologists fanatically devoted to technology and cybernetic implants. They despise those who don't share their views.
Unfortunately, the small-time detectives he interrogated didn't know much about Malström. They only knew that the gang was very dangerous and that it was best to stay away from them.
As he continued his nocturnal adventures, Batman became increasingly aware of his vulnerability. He was used to relying on his technology, his connection to Alfred, his ability to contact the police at a moment's notice. In Knight City, he was deprived of all of that.
His lack of communication was especially acute when he was apprehending criminals. He had to wait for a passerby to notify the police, which slowed down the process and put him at risk of being discovered.
"I need to tap into the city's network," Batman thought to himself.
"I need to be able to get information and contact the authorities."
But how to do that? He didn't know how the technology here worked. There had to be a way to access the network without attracting attention.
He thought of netrunners, hackers capable of breaking into any system. Maybe he should find one of them and ask for help.
But how do you find a netrunner you can trust? Most of them work for corporations or gangs. He couldn't take any chances.
He had to learn the technology here. He had to understand how the implants, weapons, security systems, and network worked. Without that, he was blind and defenseless.
He had to find a place to live. He couldn't sleep on rooftops forever. He needed a place to rest, recuperate, and make plans.
And he needed to find a job. He couldn't rely on what he had forever. He needed money to buy equipment, get information, and continue operations.
Batman realized that he needed to develop a long-term plan. He needed to adapt to this world and create a secure base for himself.
While working on a plan to adapt to Knight City, Batman faced another major problem: his lack of documents. He was a ghost in this system - no papers, no history, no right to exist.
He realized that without documents, it would be extremely difficult for him to get a job, rent a place to live, use public transportation, and most importantly, go undetected. Any check by the police or the company security service could result in arrest or, even worse, in the discovery of his identity.
A legal way to obtain documents was out of the question. He couldn't just go to the municipality and ask for an ID card. He would have to go through a complicated verification procedure, provide documents proving his identity and origin, which in his case was impossible.
Batman realized that he would have to look for illegal ways to obtain documents. He could buy a fake ID on the black market, forge the documents himself.
Each of these options carried a certain risk. Buying fake documents could end in fraud or arrest. Forging documents required skills and equipment he didn't have.
Batman had to carefully weigh the pros and cons and choose the safest and most effective way to deal with the problem.
But he never made any progress in investigating Malström's activities. All his attempts to get information about the gang ended in nothing.