VECTOR DATABASE

Official terminology and classifications recognized by the Official Expression Registry. Unauthorized alteration of these records is a Class-A felony.

CORE

Vector Cascade

1996 retrovirus event that mutated humanity.

CORE

Expressions

Superpowers; treated as heavily taxed biological functions.

CORE

Bloom Test

Mandatory, traumatic power-activation test at age 12.

O.E.R.

O.E.R.

Official Expression Registry; the ruthless global bureaucracy regulating powers.

O.E.R.

O.E.R. Scale

Power ranking (E: Mundane, D: Utility, C: Hazardous, B: Strategic, A: Omega).

V.A.S.T.

V.A.S.T.

Conscripted, heavily drugged elite anti-terror operatives.

V.A.S.T.

Phalanx

4-man V.A.S.T. squads consisting of a Striker, Anchor, Hound, and Tether.

BIO

M.E.I. (The Fade)

Autoimmune disease that slowly destroys a person's powers.

STATUS

Nulls (Blanks)

Powerless citizens legally stripped of human rights.

TECH

Trackers

Mandatory subdermal O.E.R. GPS chips.

TECH

Ghosting / Bafflers / Statics

Illegal methods, devices, or mutants used to evade O.E.R. tracking.

TECH

Chrome / Amp-Rigs

Illegal cybernetics and lethal spinal pumps used to boost powers.

LOC

The Monolith

O.E.R.'s indestructible global headquarters in Neo-Geneva.

LOC

Sector Nodes

Regional O.E.R. fortress hubs located in major cities.

LOC

Null Zones (The Sinks)

Toxic, walled-off slums where Nulls are exiled for cheap labor.

LOC

Dust Zones

Barren wastelands between cities.

LOC

Angeles Plex

Corporate, glitzy media megacity.

LOC

Mumbai-Thane Megaplex

Overpopulated global capital of black markets and cybernetics.

LOC

Neo-London

Pristine fortress city obsessed with aristocratic eugenics.

LOC

Pearl Sprawl

Smog-choked tech and manufacturing hub.

LOC

Neo-Geneva

Sterile, terrifying O.E.R. capital city-state.

LOC

Empire Sprawl (NYC)

Dense, vertical melting pot with abandoned, lawless subways.

LOC

Texas Grid (Austin)

Suburbia with a quiet, widespread black market for Bafflers.

LOC

Kanto Grid (Tokyo)

Hyper-conformist, AI-policed city with offshore exile barges.

LOC

Rio-Nova

City split between floating aero-estates and vertical favelas.

LOC

New Cairo

Brutalist city damming the Nile in the desert.

CORP

Omni-Cell

Pharma corp selling V.A.S.T. narcotics and expensive Fade-Blockers.

CORP

K.H.I.

Weapons corp building V.A.S.T. armor and suppression collars.

CORP

Prism Omnimedia

Media corp producing V.A.S.T. propaganda and energy drinks.

CORP

Soma-Tech

Corrupt cybernetics corp secretly supplying the black market.

SYNDICATE

Chrome Syndicate

Null mafia controlling the cybernetics and Amp-Rig trade.

SYNDICATE

Gene-Jackers

Elite cartel kidnapping high-tier mutants for eugenics.

SYNDICATE

Fade-Runners

Radicalized, dying mutants stealing pharmaceutical shipments.

SYNDICATE

Rust Coyotes

Wasteland smugglers transporting fugitives between megacities.