Station 23
by Vosto
Station 23
Rumours of war circulate not between the big powers of the world but between authoritarian globalised systems and the people who are tired of being told from what to think, where to work and what to put in their bodies, from what to eat which has become close to nothing and to medication which perpetuates illness. The taxes have grown beyond reason and the money is being used for questionable projects.
A cold war lasts for quite some time where the intelligence services are doing everything they can to find out all about the potential revolutionary hubs and try to stop them before an actual uprising starts. At the same time the people are gathering their own intelligence and create a blueprint with primary targets. Even a system to replace the old is envisioned based on a united conceptual framework that combines many elements of people's beliefs.
When people have nowhere to work, almost nothing to eat and sickness is rampant it is time for revolution. Even the people who were content before and criticised anti-system thought have now joined with the rebellion.
The war starts and it can't be pin pointed exactly where or when it began but people have had enough. The regular person is in the fight now against a military industrial complex. A person which was already depressed, tired and hungry has now been fueled with a glimmer of hope that something can change and will fight to death for a chance of a better. Even if a better world will never come then at least have the mechanism which has placed humanity in shackles destroyed.
Fortunately not all states have joined the control grid and these states now give resources and equipment to the rebellion. The rebels themselves are not that weak as during the cold war they've developed ways of hacking the system. The ability to hack is very powerful in an age where a lot of equipment works through smart technology that is hooked to the grid.
Hackers have united with drone operators to create new devices called sky crystals. These glow like a crystal when launched due to their shield based on electro-magnetic principles. The sky crystals are deployed in a swarm in the hopes that some will reach their objective. Once at the destination a sky crystal can scramble all of the grid for a radius of about 5 miles rendering grid based weapons unusable. This opens the possibility of rebels to launch offensive operations with classic infantry and gain more ground in the fight for freedom.
The headquarters of the rebelion lies at Station 23, a former radio station. From the outside it looks like a long gone entertainment project but on the inside there is a lift that leads to an underground facility. In this facility the best minds from all fields plan their logistics and their next moves to propel the revolution towards victory.
Station 23 used to be one of the anti-system radio stations tens of years ago. When censorship was becoming too tough they decided to get off the radar, fake their transmission closure but still working against the status quo in the underground by creating a network of the best minds in alternative thought. These were the building blocks of the revolution.
Join our fighters not only through trench warfare and offensive operations but also through their deepest of thoughts, small human moments like finding an old phonograph and playing an old record or thinking about a lost love or harnessing brotherly strength in harsh times or whistleing in the tunnels to keep morale up as they hear the bombs flying above.
This is the musical story of war, humanity and hope.
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releases April 24, 2024
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