Cluster

Three corporations clash in a deadly fight for the right to produce a unique innovative material. Whoever masters the production of a gallium arsenide semiconductor will be rewarded with untold wealth and unlimited power. But the catch is that the cluster—an allied nest of competing corporations—is a Potemkin village on an industrial scale.

The main confrontation happens on two levels: the informational level and… the toy level. No, it’s not a mistake. A side effect of this miracle semiconductor is toys coming to life—inhabiting a child’s world with not-childish dreams of freedom, freedom that can’t be obtained without pain and losses.