A dystopian thriller series about the coming end of days

Legacy Systems

Built to Perfection,
Not Built to Last

  • Legacy Systems — Chapter 17: The Carrier

    Neurophene-9a was designed for controlled administration in a sterile room. What it does to the body, why the council of Olympus requires it intravenously to remain connected, and why the people who tried integration without enough of it are what they are now.

  • Legacy Systems — Chapter 18, Act 1: Intake

    Simone Voss is processed through an intake facility that has no human face to appeal to — and separated from her daughter without a single person present to hear her ask why.

  • Legacy Systems — Chapter 18, Act 2: Claim

    Julian Voss receives the public dossier at his work terminal, is docked 14 credits for the disruption, and begins crossing a city that was not designed for urgency.

  • Legacy Systems — Chapter 18, Act 3: The Holding Garden

    Nina Voss is escorted to a child detainment facility and greeted by Cavi — a cartoon capybara robot who apologizes. She finds a bench. A boy sits down next to her and says his name is Kaito.

  • Legacy Systems — Chapter 19: What the Road Offers

    He lay still for longer than he should have. The machine was pinned — he’d confirmed it three times, checking the neck cable, checking the sensor cluster, counting the seconds between any attempt at motor function. Nothing. The TX-CYCLE would miss its interval and somewhere a flag would increment, but…

  • Legacy Systems — Chapter 20: What the River Takes

    Two men came out without being asked. They looked at the sled, looked at the man who’d brought it, and said nothing. One of them — broad, maybe forty, with the kind of forearms that came from years of actual work — picked up the haul line without waiting for…

  • Legacy Systems — Chapter 21, Act 1: Supply Chain

    Three weeks out from the incident on Meridian Street and Marcus was back on schedule. That was the thing about near-misses: they didn’t stop the calendar. He broke the batch into eight units before he left the flat, not six — the client list had grown since word got out…

  • Legacy Systems — Chapter 21, Act 2: Rebase

    Two days later he was still on the floor, more or less. Not the same floor — he’d made it to the couch at some point, and to the kitchen twice. But the compound left a residue that wasn’t chemical, or wasn’t only chemical: a kind of attentional drag, the…

  • Legacy Systems — Chapter 21, Act 3: The Frequency

    “The device runs a divining algorithm,” Bodhi said. “It’s adaptive — tracks respiration rate and generates a tonal sequence that shifts as your system absorbs the compound, so the ambient frequency stays ahead of the uptake curve instead of falling behind it. The Tuned call this accompaniment. I call it…