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Overview

CORPO is a world where people are rebuilding after the Turning. There's no government coming to fix things. If you want water, power or a place to live, somebody has to build it. You can help do that through a corporation, or go out as a Lancer and bring back the things the city needs.

History

The Old World was the society that existed before the Turning. People used a global internet, paid for things digitally and relied on servos for much of their daily work. Those systems made life easier. They also concentrated a great deal of power in the governments and corporations that controlled the infrastructure, the data and the machines.

History

National currencies were losing their purchasing power before the Turning. Governments promised solutions, but printing more money could not create the food and resources people needed. Savings bought less, prices became harder to predict and some merchants refused payments they no longer trusted. The financial crisis helped turn public frustration into anger at the institutions running society.

History

Before the Turning, identity and property records were being moved onto blockchain registries. Those records covered transactions, company shares and real estate as well as digital money. They made information easier to connect and verify. They also gave powerful institutions more visibility into where people lived, what they owned and how they spent their money.

History

Orbinet was the Old World's orbital data and computing network. Ground terminals connected homes, businesses and public infrastructure to satellites above them. Governments had enormous influence over the network, and many systems depended on it. Orbinet carried the Servo Virus during the Turning. Much of the orbital hardware remains, but the global service has not been restored.

History

SERVO distributed software and commands to machines through the global network. Updates improved their work, corrected problems and allowed large groups of servos to be managed together. That was a major part of their value. It also meant a failure in the shared system could reach machines in homes, businesses and government facilities around the world.

The Turning

Divinity was a hacker group opposed to government control of Orbinet, blockchain surveillance and the use of security servos to suppress dissent. Its members planned to destroy one military communications base by turning the servos inside against the facility. They believed the attack would expose the government's vulnerability and demonstrate that power still belonged to ordinary people.

The Turning

Divinity's operatives entered the military communications facility to install the Servo Virus directly into its control hardware. Remote access alone was not enough for their plan. They brought a physical drive, reached the control panel and transferred the malicious code. The intended delay was supposed to let them leave before the servos began destroying the base.

The Turning

The delay failed, and the base's servos started attacking before Divinity's operatives could leave. Their order was to destroy other servos and energized equipment. Security machines fought each other while other units damaged the facility's electrical systems. The operatives were caught inside the destruction they had intended to begin after their escape.

The Turning

The attack destroyed the base's electrical equipment and brought down its power and communications. That did not contain the virus. Copies of the order had already traveled through the network to other locations. The facility became one of the first places to go dark while the same instruction was reaching servos elsewhere.

The Turning

The Servo Virus spread worldwide through Orbinet in thirty minutes. Connected servos received the order to destroy other servos and powered infrastructure. Attacks began across places that had no connection to Divinity's original target. Thirty minutes describes the spread of the instruction. The collapse of essential services and the loss of human life continued afterward.

The Turning

Operating servos became electrical targets to other infected servos. Machines that had worked together in hospitals, warehouses and public services began fighting each other. That destroyed much of the robotic workforce at the moment people needed help. Staff tried to move patients and protect supplies while the machines and equipment around them were being damaged.

The Turning

Military Rangers carried the same destructive order as civilian servos, with far greater strength and endurance. At military installations, they attacked generators, communications equipment and other robots. Security servos fired on the Rangers in return. The fighting destroyed systems that would otherwise have supported emergency response, transport and repairs outside the base.

The Turning

Government offices lost power, communications and access to their records as the Turning spread. Citizens looking for help found that public employees were losing the same systems everyone else depended on. Requests could not be processed, messages could not get through and ordinary staff had to evacuate buildings alongside the people they were serving.

The Turning

Digital payments stopped when the power, terminals and networks supporting them failed. People could still have account balances without any way to spend them or prove a transaction to a merchant. Servos damaged cash machines and financial infrastructure while businesses lost access to their records. Goods and savings became difficult to exchange even where both had survived.

The Turning

Food distribution depended on refrigeration, powered handling equipment and vehicles moving goods between farms, depots and shops. During the Turning, those systems became targets. Servos fought among waiting stock and damaged the equipment needed to move it. Food remained in some warehouses while stores received nothing, and perishable supplies began to spoil as cooling stayed down.

The Turning

Roads filled with stranded vehicles as servos attacked powered transport and street infrastructure. Bus passengers had to evacuate, traffic stopped and emergency crews lost routes through the city. People tried to reach homes and relatives on foot. The danger came from collisions, fire and attacks on equipment around them, while the machines continued following the electrical-target order.

Aftermath

Food production continued to deteriorate after the initial attacks. Irrigation pumps stopped, farm equipment failed and deliveries of essential supplies never arrived. Some crops could be saved by hand. Others died in the following weeks. Even a surviving harvest needed labor, transport and storage before it could feed the people waiting for it.