aeg·is teth·er se·cur·i·ty
/ˈējis ˈteTHər siˈkyo͝orədē/ – noun
The fortress where humanity’s elite purchase immortality one neural pulse at a time, controlling who gets to transcend mortal flesh.
Their promise: “Privacy Assured, Reality Enhanced.” Their reality: digital evolution for the chosen few.
THEY SELL TRANSCENDENCE. THEY DELIVER TRANSFORMATION.
In Los Demonios, where Hollywood dreams putrefy beneath corporate towers, AEGIS TETHER SECURITY’s glass spire bleeds blue data streams into the night. Inside, the city’s wealthy elite and wannabe-rich cling desperately to their natural-born flesh while hungering for digital godhood.
These are the holdouts—those too proud, too paranoid or too pure to undergo proxy-ready surgical modifications. They refuse to surrender their original bodies for enhanced synthetic vessels, yet they crave the allure of the Etherverse. AEGIS feeds this contradiction, offering Digital Temple Ether Decks grown from their unmodified DNA.
Neural interfaces flood their virgin minds with euphoric “digital champagne” while aromatherapy molecules respond to their deepest thoughts. They pay millions to taste transcendence without sacrificing their “human purity”—and like everyone else — they’re becoming addicted to the illusion.
“People enter for routine tethering sessions and emerge fundamentally changed — days, weeks and sometimes months later,” warns Dr. Elena Hoss, former AEGIS researcher who vanished after exposing classified protocols. “Like they’ve consumed something beyond human comprehension.”
While the proxy-enhanced masses hemorrhage credits in contaminated public facilities that infamously sparked the Upper East Side Encephalitis Outbreak, these natural-born purists luxuriate in AEGIS’s sterile Digital Temples. Perfect safety for those who refuse surgical enhancement yet demand digital supremacy.
But what price? And safety from what?
AEGIS maintains “dead zones” so classified that even the Archivist cannot penetrate their barriers. What requires protection from an entity that sees every corner of the Etherverse?
“We’re architecting human evolution,” CEO Marcus Blackwater bragged in leaked footage. “Some transformations demand absolute discretion.”
Their Los Demonios location reeks of conspiracy. Blocks from SoulTech‘s facilities. Minutes from the proxy recycling plant where synthetic corpses are butchered for parts. Within the city where some of the earliest An’jels first emerged from Proxus Inc. to cur(s)e humanity with tethering technology.
Security footage reveals armed guards wielding weapons for threats that “don’t exist.” Biometric scanners rejecting registered users, as if detecting inhuman signatures.
Environmental systems activating for invisible occupants.
“Los Demonios’s wannabe elite refuse proxy-ready modifications but demand equal access to digital transcendence,” confided a former guard. “AEGIS promises they can have both—original flesh and enhanced consciousness. But survival of whatever’s devouring humanity might require abandoning that precious ‘human purity.'”
Leaked documents expose partnerships with proxy farms, experimental respawning protocols, and controversial afterlife insurance that transcends death itself.
THE ULTIMATE TRUTH:
While the Surface crumbles and the Etherverse devours reality, while An’jels deliver cryptic prophecies and the Seventh Order races to decode reality’s source code…
Whatever AEGIS hides, it’s worth murdering to protect. Privacy Assured, Reality Enhanced—but whose reality survives the enhancement?
