Kimber grew up in the system at a time after The System was introduced to Earth by the Empress of Astoria. Used as a recruiting grounds for gangs and businesses, Orphanages remain funded just well enough to keep kids alive long enough to initialize into the System at age sixteen. With an abusive girlfriend and negligent caretakers, Kimber works toward being selected by The Warram Group's Organized Crime division and finding a purpose other than surviving. Set in the Astoria storytelling universe set by "Charting Course", twenty years after System introduction to Earth and humanity has had the time to collapse and recover in some areas. Status sheets are not a focus of this fiction, but advancement alerts are shown and referenced throughout. LGBTQ+ MC Cover Art is AI generated