In 2070, a routine morning in St. Petersburg turns catastrophic when Boris Frolov —
a disabled veteran fitted with a military-surplus prosthetic arm — detonates in a crowded
coffee house, killing a dozen civilians. Within hours, four more coordinated explosions
strike Paris, Hamburg, Brussels, and Rotterdam, all triggered remotely through a single
restricted NPL quantum frequency, all involving XAoC Cybernetics prosthetics installed
just one week prior.
ICPO Counter-Terrorism analyst Yasutake Masanori — himself a cybernetic amputee — recognizes
a chilling contradiction: precision-engineered limbs sabotaged with crude, deliberate trigger
mechanisms. His investigation points not to the RBLA, the radical cell claiming responsibility,
but to something buried inside XAoC's own supply chain — and directly into the Orlova family,
the dynasty that built the company.
Meanwhile, XAoC cybersecurity analyst Larisa Sokolova stumbles onto falsified inventory logs
and watches an innocent colleague dragged away by the company's shadow enforcement arm. Forced
to flee with raw evidence, she reaches out to investigative journalist Chuman Patel — only to
watch her leaked data get weaponized, corrupted, and turned into a narrative that protects the
very conspirators she tried to expose.
At the center of it all is Katerina Orlova — CEO, family matriarch, and the ruthless architect
of a decades-long shadow war against her father, Alexander, whose criminal network has been
quietly repurposing XAoC prosthetics into remote-detonated bombs.