War and the people left in its wake have destroyed the world as we know it. In the year 2028. The United States is a broken place ruled by nobody but death, famine, and sorrow. Once glorious, it now stands a monument to hubris in a world gone mad.

Somewhere around the year, 2025 everything changed. America had already slowly become dependent on artificial intelligence and the internet back in the early 2000s. 2025 cemented the transformation by introducing biometrics, facial recognition, and cashless payment systems. Dr. Harold Smith had watched it all. He saw back in 2020 how the world's newest pandemic ushered in sweeping changes to a nation he once loved.

Harold still called himself doctor, although now, any real doctor was a machine backed by AI. If you were sick, why would you go to a fallible doctor, when you could use a machine with a perfect track record. The type of Doctor he was, only served the savagery of this world now. The machine doctors and the AI only served the extremely privileged who hid away in their bunkers as the world became a shit show.

Harold and his family didn't leave the financial district of New York when the lights went out. He decided along with so many other people,...