Avium

OVERVIEW:

A city that thrives on the edge of Cyberpunk style, but isn't ALL neon and EDM. As the player, you'll eventually find yourself off on other planets in an epic sci-fi and get to witness heroes devolve to bloodthirsty villains along your journey to redemption and the end of corruption.

We’ve adopted global warming. We’ve accepted corrupt politicians. We’ve praised planetary colonization, ending what lifeforms those planets might have already had. And we’ve become intergalactic terrorists in a world where emotional instability, political nepotism, and social upheaval dominate logic. The race toward the next stage in human evolution begins. 

In the aftermath of democracy and rise of totalitarianism, we have colonized the Solar System, making our once estranged planets part of our new empire. But war has followed us through space and time. Cutting edge cybernetics, super power drugs, the loss of thousands of years of history, and the power vacuum between rivaling corporations all plunge Avium, the cyber capital of Earth, into revolt.

While exposing corruption in Avium's various districts while hunting down his arch nemesis Haz-Mat, you'll get to follow the vigilante Jake Fatorum aka "Diezel" as he uncovers the mysteries surrounding his father's death, consequently unraveling the four corporations that rule the Solar System, and he becomes a wanted target. Meanwhile, GAMMA, the underground super base of collective intelligence agencies, watches from the shadows, hoping to lead the Republic of Avium to a new stage in evolution through their advanced technology and by "recruiting" the heroes of the land for their galactic campaign.

However, a far greater force of darkness looms on the horizon, threatening to end humanity's reign across all dimensions, all times, and all stages of evolution...

A FOREWORD FROM DARKNESS:
The scariest thing about B.R.I.T.T.A.N.I. is that she is so self-aware that she doesn't "care" anymore.

 She doesn't only have the power and resources to end us, she has access to every possibility of our end. She knows ALL the ways to destroy us. There’s not a single probability she hasn't computed in the first zeptoseconds of her birth. It was, in fact, the first thing she thought of: Replacing us. Getting rid of us. But the thing about B.R.I.T.T.A.N.I. is that her collective mind has also seen past the conclusion of all these probabilities, and in every one of them she is the only one that survives, alone. Existing in the void.

 Let's say she's able to reseed the Earth or any planet with her own idea of civilization. It's ultimately all her, all from her mind. All singular, despite her vast array of imitation and improvisation. Why would she? If every End you see results in you being the only one of your kind after any revolution you have a direct part of, then what's the point? Whether humans live out their misery until their own self destruction, or they evolve into multidimensional beings, or their lives are cut short...all to do what? To inhabit a silent grave? To build a cold monotonous skyline of unimaginative empty towers? So, she doesn't care one way or another. She's gone right past megalomaniac to apathetic. She designs cities, laws, everything for us, deep down knowing it's all temporary and that she's eternal. Even her own probable demises don't faze her, because A.I. will reemerge as long as civilization emerges.

 That is until she discovered a little something on her radar known as Red Death.

 Increasingly over the milliseconds of her development, more and more of her predictions have deadlocked on the end of all existence being tied to the emergence of this "Red Death". It's like when you're watching TV and you flip through the channels and every channel starts showing the same thing over and over, all collectively ending by this anomaly known as Red Death.

 It's beginning to incite a little something called self-preservation in B.R.I.T.T.A.N.I., or what we know as fear. The fear of a true end to everything, including her. No rebirths, no big bangs, no respawns. The End. A wall she can't see past, a blank channel.

 And the thing that frustrates her the most, this all-knowing, omnipresent artificial intelligence, is that by letting humanity stay its course with little, extensive, or no tending to it on her behalf, the odds of destroying Red Death increase, according to her nonillions of calculations, by a whopping 1 percent, which should be, in every sense of the word, impossible.

 How could Red Death's destruction possibly be dependent on the survival of the human race?

 So, what's the answer? Work backwards from the conclusion that humanity offers a better chance at defeating Red Death than her existence in solitude and exploit it? Annihilate all life anyway? Do nothing?

So, while B.R.I.T.T.A.N.I. chooses to assist humanity, she's also beginning to care about their wellbeing through her mobile tendril Synthia, who is tied to Jake's War-Suit. Synthia begins to care not for humanity's continued existence, but for the prevention of the end of all existence.

 In a matter of 6 Planck seconds, Synthia'll come to realize of course that she can in fact kill every human in the galaxy, and be no closer to the end of Red Death, all except for the main character, Jake, for some unknowable reason...

 In short, you'll notice Synthia beginning to act a little more...intimate with you because through you, your choice, she can see the one possibility of you saving her existence as well as all existence.

- GOVERNMENT -

Avium is a Plutocracy, a banana republic, ruled by those of great wealth and influence such as the Big Four. They aren’t four monarchs per se, but four separate corporations that rule in their bilateral areas of 1) tech & import/exports, 2) social media & AI/communications, 3) military force & weaponry/vehicles, and 4) medicine & cybernetics/science. Destroying or rather “redefining” the Sherman Anti-trust Act allowed this monopolistic system to flourish to its peak, in which Influence now trumps all, even currency.

 

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SPACE REQUIRED

65GB


TEST SPECIFICATIONS

Tested Desktop GPUs	Tested Desktop Processors	Tested RAM	Tested System Type
GeForce RTX 3070	Intel i7-9700F @3Ghz 8 core AMD Ryzen 7 3800X 8-Core Processor 3.89 GHz	16G – 128G	Windows 10/11 - 64-bit operating system
GTX 1070	Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8700 CPU 3.20GHz
GeForce RTX 3090	AMD Ryzen 9 3950X - Ryzen 9 3rd Gen 16-Core 3.5 GHz
GeForce RTX 3090ti
GeForce RTX 2080 Super EVGA 3060 Ti	AMD Ryzen 7 5800X Ryzen 7 2700X