"... she was hopeful in a most bleak way."
Overview
Forsaking her human body for the strength of metal, Sophitia was charged with the defense of the dilapidated citadel - Babylon. When the sudden assault of a nanomechanical foe beyond mortal comprehension caves in her reality, she finds herself plummeting into the depths of an ageless struggle. Subject to the events of a past lost to the ages, she is caught between those that crushed the world for power and the legendary blade Excalibur that could resurrect the dream once called Camelot.
Chasing the truth will carry her beyond the ends of the world, and across dimensional space itself. Even as the answers inevitably pile upon each other, she must decide whether the secret within her shell is worth abandoning her identity for the cold justice of destiny. Will she become a puppet to the fate thrust upon her, or will it destroy her?
"... she was as hard as metal."
Sophitia
A human survivor toiling in the ashes of a world crushed beneath the furious nano-tech apocalypse. At a young age she forsook her mortal coil for the synthetic shell of a Valkyrie to protect her home, Babylon.
[Type-S, human Warcyborg]
Aeric
A fellow Valkyrie and love interest of Sophitia, he is an indirect individual preferring strategy to open conflict. He became involved with Sophitia, after Karina was 'born'.
[Type-C, human cyborg]
Karina
Daughter of Sophitia. She is an 'in vitro' child, born long after Sophitia abandon her organic body. Conceived from her parents stored genetic material, she is in every sense Sophitia's real daughter. Her father had been deceased prior to her inception and she knows him only from Sophitia's video-perfect memory recordings.
[human]
Doc
The miraculously talented cybernetic machinist and programer who developed Sophitia's cybershell. It was a shock that anyone could construct such a perfect cybernetic body with the scarce resources of Babylon, but he takes it all in stride. An insatiable tinkerer, he continually improves her weapons, subsystems, and motorcycle seeking to achieve some indescribable gestalt known only to him.
[human]
Beez
The bigoted, misogynistic slave trader backed by the might of Neo-Camelot. Absolute scum, he can trade anything for a profit, and his gutteral sense of humor is the stuff of legends across the wastes.
[Type-C, human cyborg]
Oren
One of the elite cyborg warriors in service to the foul agenda of Neo-Camelot. Shrewd and cunning, his arrogant swagger belies the dangerous tactician underneath.
[Type-A, human Warcyborg]
Mirial
Cybernetic doctor, witch, and right hand to the king of Neo-Camelot. A true nightmare of a woman, she will twist anything from science to demonology to achieve the absolute dominance of Neo-Camelot.
[human]
Sarafina
Enslaved assassin, who was captured and corrupted by Mirial into a bi-polar psychotic. The witch keeps her tenuous control over this viciously unstable creature via embedded obedience circuitry.
[Type-S, non-human Warcyborg]
Rãna
Bio-engineered super babe and entertainer. Currently the singer of the slum-band "Doomfeather".
[unknown]
Horus
Real name Jeremiah, he is the guitarist for "Doomfeather" and all around good natured rogue.
[human]
"... it was an age of dust and metal."
The World of Legend's Future
Shortly after the death of Arthur and the returning of Excalibur to the Lady of the Lake, a wicked plot was hatched to retrieve the blade using both deception and black magic. The subsequent night of terror succeeded in wresting the blade from the lake, but once the hands of the dark hearted conquerors touched Excalibur - the peerless blade shattered itself. The sundered blade of kings instantly ignited a civil war that raged into the far distant future - into a time of technology and devastation long since abandoning hope.
The Nanetik Plagues
A cruel tactic of unmitigated inhumanity, the nanomachine weapons were developed for the sole purpose of retrieving the shards of Excalibur, even if it meant annihilating the world. Once in the wild, the various strains of nanoscopic machines unleashed an evolutionary war on the planet. Forcibly evolving every life form into re-engineered monstrosities, humans alone were left untouched by the nanomechanical onslaught. Whoever programmed the merciful lines of code that spared humanity was surely not the same person who released them. Amongst the chaos, there were those who blended technology and ancient demonic magic to create blasphemies more intent on murdering of civilization than finding pieces of the lost sword.
In the end, after all that was left fell to dust, humans found themselves struggling to survive against cyberbeasts of every ilk. Yet even in the wreckage of society, total domination still eluded those that would crush the world in their fists ...
