In the year 2060, Earth is a fractured remnant of what it was a mere 30 years before, scarred by an engineered cataclysm delivered from the stars.

The unthinkable truth has happened: A sophisticated synthetic-biological weapon was deployed by unknown forces, causing planetary genocide and cognitive decay, by merging an alien xeno-protein ecosystem with Earth's biology. This act was seemingly deliberately timed to prevent humanity from achieving planetary unification, forcing the survivors to abandon denial and confront the terrifying scope of their altered existence.

Humanity is now divided into three distinct factions and two distinct sub-species: the vast majority of remaining humans endure as bioinsecure Techno-Barbarians in desolate ruins, their minds and bodies ravaged, struggling for primal survival against encroaching planetary cooling and resource scarcity. In sharp contrast, the Hyper-Capitalist enclaves in Africa, the Middle East and former India represent fortified islands of concentrated exploitative power, where almost one hundred million bioinsecure humans rely on the NeoGuard™ treatment to manage symptoms of the synthetic nano-parasites contamination, while clinging to a version of the brutal old-world order that went through the ultimate self-optimization process.

Lastly, the EPSCOM biosecurity safezones house a select population of biosecure people, pursuing Transhuman Eudaimonism under benevolent AI guidance, striving for well-being and fulfillment in isolated post-scarcity paradises for the unvaccinated, those that did not convert themselves or their off-spring into molecular alien fuel factories.