In The Future, Earth has been ravaged and most of humanity killed by rogue super-AIs in a catastrophic event known as "the Fall". The human diaspora has settled the Solar System and fractionated into several competing ideological factions. Humanity? Many would question the propriety of that word. Death has been cured, bodies can be changed as easily as clothes and the mind is programmable software that can be copy-pasted as easily as a .doc file. The few "pure" humans that remain are living relics, destined to go way of the Dodo. This is the age of transhumanity; humanity's genetically engineered, reprogrammed descendants and their fellow-travelers - sentient AIs and uplifted animals. You play as members of an elite organization dedicated to one goal: prevent the extinction of transhumanity, at any cost. Bioweapons, rogue AIs, computer viruses, nanoswarms and possibly even stranger threats from beyond the void all threaten civilization, and it's your job to make sure Earth's children are not snuffed out for all eternity. Don't be afraid of breaking a few eggs. Or spacing a few infected innocents. Characters can come from a wide variety of different backgrounds, and have a wide variety of different motivations. The hypercapitalists of the Inner System, the anarchists of the Outer System, the techno-socialistic Titanians, the libertarian Extropians, the hedonistic Scum, the bioconservative Jovians, the social Darwinist Ultimates and many other factions continue the ideological battles of yesterday in a world where nanotech machines can create pretty much anything and where reputation can take the place of money. Play as an octopus with a PhD in genetics, a space-adapted smuggler, a hacker existing a pure information or whatever kind of character concept your twisted imagination and technology can create. And remember: Death might be just an inconvenience, but there are far worse things than death. Have fun! --------- Hmm. Nah. A bit long, I think. But to be fair, it is a complicated setting.