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Nexus has no story from that year that matters. Neither does anyone else. No footage, no BOLO, no rumor with a date on it. Whatever happened, nobody filed it.
Nexus News does not report what it was never told.
Before Neon City
The year nobody remembers
A sealed drive from 2035, two decades before Lunara’s night. It never made the news and never reached Runner Net. It’s still sealed.
Press and hold. It takes a moment; it’s been sealed a long time.
Neon City has a past that nobody in it knows about. In 2035, two decades before Lunara's night, something happened that never made the news, never reached Runner Net, and never left a mark anyone can point to. It stayed below the radar. It's still there.
It's told in Lunara Sol's novel Dea ex Machina: a battle between rogue AIs and the secret Order of the Broken Sword. For freedom, or dominance.
2035Dea ex Machina2037Not yet told2055Neon City, tonight
Almost nothing. That’s the point.
The comic never needs the novel. But a few things in Neon City are older than they look. Here is what’s left of them.
The Broken Order
Neon City uses a name it can't explain: the Broken Order. Ask where it came from and you get a shrug and a change of subject. In 2035 there was a secret order with a broken sword in its name. The name stuck. The reason didn't.
Heard in Neon Market. Source declined to be named, or to finish the sentence.
Rogue AIs
In 2035, xxxxxxx AIs went rogue. The Order of the Broken Sword xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx. The outcome was never made public. For freedom, or dominance.
Recovered text. Most of it was already missing.
Dea · Diva
In the novel there is Dea, wreathed in golden light. In the comic there is Diva: gold code, a client nobody has ever traced, who answers before she's asked and has never been wrong. Readers have noticed the names. Nexus has noticed nothing and would like that on the record.
Every page of this portal ends the same way: this realm, too, is kept by Dea.
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No. You’ll want it anyway.
The comic stands on its own: start at page one and you’ll miss nothing. Dea ex Machina is for after, when a name on these pages starts to sound older than it should.