Twenty-second century…
Over the past centuries, Earth has turned into a gigantic dump. Eighteen billion people live in megacities, where each person is allotted only a small patch of living space. It is hardly surprising that most Earthlings prefer virtual worlds to the real one. Since the advent of neural-network phantoms technology, competition between the largest cyber-corporations has begun to resemble a real war. However, Ekaterina Sergeyevna Rimp, founder of “Rimp-Cybertronic,” who once hacked the computer network of the combat orbital group of United America and thereby prevented aggression against Russia, is no stranger to participating in virtual wars. Especially when the future of humanity is at stake…