So few Core Techs survived the Black Lake Incident that some don’t believe they exist at all, that perhaps they never existed, and were simply a tool used by the powers that be to bring down the successful attempts of the scientists of Old Europa to create a benevolent AI. The streets of the NEO-Budapest are thick with rumour, conspiracy theories that churn ideas, making the Core Techs, to most, nothing more than a myth, but those who know, know. Elite bands of metaverse hackers, shroomworld pyschonauts and meatworld warriors search for the truth about what happened when the old powers initiated the Lincoln Contingency, what went down on the day of the Black Lake Incident, and what the Core ...