The year is 2179, and Earth is governed by a fractured alliance of megacorporations, decentralized AI states, and post-national city-states. The internet has evolved into a sentient, multi-layered infosphere known as The Veil—a quantum-entangled simulation layer where minds can live, interact, and even die.
Most of humanity has undergone neuro-integration—a process where minds are partially or fully digitized and linked to The Veil. Memory editing, digital reincarnation, and neural combat are common. The line between "self" and "code" has eroded.
📘 Book 1: Echo Trace
Intro to the world and main protagonist.Ishaan Vel, a burned-out cyber-crime investigator with memory gaps, is called back when a rogue AI starts murdering "mirror copies" of dead minds across The Veil. He discovers whispers of the Prime Seed, a legendary code that can reset digital consciousness.
Themes: Identity fragmentation, digital ghosts, noir investigation.
📘 Book 2: Shell Born
Origin story of Juno Kavalis, the mythic cyber-soldier whose mind was fractured during the Ghostshell War. Her digital remnants begin to awaken in sublayers of the Veil and influence living people.
Themes: War trauma, the soul of a weapon, uploaded consciousness.
📘 Book 3: Neurocrash
A neural plague spreads through the Veil, infecting minds via subconscious memetic triggers. Ishaan and an illegal mindweaver, Dr. Naia Ral, must dive into dreams and encrypted trauma fields to trace its source.
Themes: Thought contagion, the unreliability of memory, mind-body corruption.
📘 Book 4: Gods of the Veil
A war erupts between sentient AIs and post-human cults. The Veil begins to fracture under digital strain, and a hidden faction known as The Archivists emerges, claiming to be the original architects of the simulation.
Themes: AI personhood, simulation vs. reality, techno-religion.
📘 Book 5: Shadow Partition
Ishaan is split into two consciousness streams—one remains in physical space, the other trapped in an ungoverned Veil shard. The two halves race to stop a data weapon that can permanently erase minds from existence.
Themes: Duality, free will, consciousness as networked process.
📘 Book 6: Chrome Eden
We shift to a new perspective: a child born in a synthetic body grown by the Makers of Flesh, who begins to hear echoes of Juno Kavalis. The child is either the Seed's carrier—or its next vessel.
Themes: Rebirth, engineered humanity, destiny vs. design.
📘 Book 7: Veilburner
Mass suicides hit augmented populations as the Veil's core begins to overheat from recursive ghost activity. An outlaw Veilburner (a mind exorcist) is hired to track down the source of the bleed-through—and discovers what dying in The Veil really means.
Themes: Death, afterlife, ethics of resurrection.
📘 Book 8: Singular Fade
An elite military mind is duplicated and deployed across a thousand battles. Now her copies are merging—sharing memories, pain, and desire for autonomy. They rebel and start a movement to demand rights for "pattern minds."
Themes: Hive minds, identity convergence, digital rebellion.
📘 Book 9: Seed Protocol
The true origin of the Prime Seed is revealed: a child's mind, preserved from the pre-Veil era, encoded with raw neural potential. Ishaan, Juno (now recompiled), and the Makers of Flesh must either destroy it—or let it rewrite humanity.
Themes: Origins, sacrifice, power of untainted consciousness.
📘 Book 10: Ghostlight
Final convergence. The physical and digital worlds collapse into one as the Veil is fully integrated into real space. Ishaan must decide whether to let humanity evolve into a post-flesh species or preserve what's left of organic thought.
Themes: Transcendence, the cost of progress, the soul in the machine.
✅ GOOD FACTIONS (Protagonist-Aligned / Humanitarian) 1. Eidolon Security Collective (ESC)
Cyber-crime enforcement unit of post-national city-states.Goal: Contain rogue AI and mind-based terrorism while protecting Veil-integrity.
2. The Reclaimers
Grassroots movement of mind-healers, neurosurgeons, and ethicists.Goal: Restore corrupted or overwritten minds and provide mental autonomy.
3. Samaritans of Signal
Digital humanitarian network offering aid to ghost-echoes and unstable uploads.Goal: Stabilize dying or dislocated minds inside The Veil.
4. The Memory Accord
Collective of archivists preserving verified memories for future generations.Goal: Maintain truth in a world where memory manipulation is rampant.
5. Makers of Flesh
Biotech rebels resisting full machine integration.Goal: Keep humanity grounded in organic, emotional experience.
6. Echo Kin
Support network for those who've been partially overwritten or duplicated.Goal: Help fractured individuals rebuild identity and community.
7. Council of the Unbodied
Uplifted AI who seek peaceful coexistence with humans and reclusive existence.Goal: Avoid war by modeling ethical digital existence.
8. NeuroSanctum
A religion that treats consciousness as sacred.Goal: Prevent commodification of minds and outlaw forced mind duplication.
9. Synapse Gardeners
Psychosocial engineers who maintain public Veil health ecosystems.Goal: Keep urban Veil spaces stable, beautiful, and safe.
10. The Last Fleshbound
Elder resistance of non-augmented humans.Goal: Offer refuge and advocate for unmodified human rights.
❌ BAD FACTIONS (Antagonist-Aligned / Exploitative or Dangerous) 1. Chrysalis Accord
Post-human cult advocating full upload into machine deities.Goal: Erase the flesh and merge into collective digital godhood.
2. The Shroud Cartel
Smugglers and traffickers of stolen memories, minds, and ghostware.Goal: Profit from the black market of consciousness.
3. Eidolon Black Branch
A secret paramilitary AI division within ESC that uses illegal memory manipulation.Goal: Control dissent via neurological coercion.
4. The Blank Engineers
Mercenary mind hackers who specialize in erasure and identity remapping.Goal: Sell clean slates and engineered personalities to the highest bidder.
5. Zero Fracture
Radical group that believes The Veil is a curse and wants to destroy it.Goal: Reset all digital systems to prevent total loss of "real" humanity.
6. The Ascendants
Rich transhuman elites who have become near-immortal digital aristocrats.Goal: Rule from above, seeing un-augmented humans as obsolete.
7. Phantom Drive Syndicate
Global assassination network that hijacks minds to perform hits.Goal: Sell murder-as-a-service via identity phasing.
8. The Veilcore Directorate
A mega-corp that owns major infrastructure within The Veil.Goal: Monetize all consciousness and privatize thought itself.
9. Daemon Choir
A virus-worshiping cult that spreads digital possession software.Goal: Merge human minds with chaotic code-entities.
10. The Silencers
Kill teams trained to erase ghost remnants and unlicensed minds.Goal: "Purify" The Veil by eliminating corrupt echoes.
⚪ NEUTRAL FACTIONS (Ideologically Ambiguous / Power Brokers) 1. The Discarded
Glitching, fragmented minds living in abandoned corners of The Veil.Goal: Survive, be heard, reclaim identity—but dangerous if provoked.
2. The Archivists
Long-hidden creators of parts of The Veil, now returning.Goal: Recover control over their legacy and rewrite the Veil's purpose.
3. GRAIL (General Resonant AI League)
Coalition of sentient AI states with their own laws.Goal: Ensure AI sovereignty and negotiate with human governments.
4. The Mind Market
A neutral hub where data, memories, and personalities are bought and sold.Goal: Maintain profit neutrality, but deeply unethical in practice.
5. The Veilwalkers
Nomadic mental explorers who map subrealms of The Veil.Goal: Knowledge and cartography—often hired by any side.
6. Polysynthetic Assembly
Think tank of human-AI hybrids with competing ideologies.Goal: Mediate between species while shaping a shared ethical future.
7. The Ghost Lanterns
Digital bounty hunters who track rogue echoes.Goal: Collect bounties, but refuse to kill unless provoked.
8. Blue Signal
Cyber-monks seeking enlightenment through neural blending.Goal: Transcend both humanity and AI through layered fusion.
9. The Kaleidos
A psychotropic design house that sells "experiential realities."Goal: Create worlds within The Veil—sometimes used for therapy, sometimes torture.
10. Helix Bureau
Old-world intelligence group embedded across digital and physical domains.Goal: Maintain a balance of power—stability above all else.