Welcome to the Project Crypsis Wiki. Crypsis is a cyberpunk-themed worldbuilding project. Set throughout the XXI century, Crypsis explores classic hard sci-fi cyberpunk tropes as well as well as newer concepts, set in the world of environmental and geopolitical collapse, drawing inspiration from extrapolation of research papers from the real world.
Introduction
The future is already here - it's just not very evenly distributed.
— William Gibson
High tech problems require low tech solutions.
— Anonymous
If they told me what the world would become, I would not have believed them. First there was a series of rolling zoonotic pandemics, plagues that swept across the land, killing thousands upon thousands, placing deafening silence upon our urban core.
Then there were riots. As geopolitical instability grew, the global powers did everything to undo one another. Crooked empires of blood and ash. There was no one left to oppose them, but their own people.
Then came the war. The big one. The Great Decimation. The West killed the East. The East killed the West. There were no winners. Except for radicals.
Through a series of social transformations, man-made disasters, technological revolutions, tethering at the brink of environmental collapse, an overwhelming majority of liberal democratic governments failed.
The conglomerates of the old have endured, however, seizing power and forging their own republics. Turning urban cores to the new, old normal: the rich get richer, as the poor rot away in their hovels, desperate to escape reality. Stability, at the knife's edge.
The rest of the world is dotted by a patchwork of dozens of rivaling states representing a range of conflicting dreams, traumatized by endless wars and crises.
As programmable information systems, automated military platforms, neural interfacing, artificial intelligence, biomolecular engineering rolled in, so did isolationalism, a turn to permaculture, degrowth, and asymmetric guerilla warfare.
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Lore
<Featured Lore>
- Interstate 5 Earthquake
- Colorado River Drought
- Europe Patchwork
- Heaven
- Slaughterbots
- Nanophage
- Cloudhunters
- Zeus Array