Chrome & Covenant: Age of Echoes
The World
Year 2089. The Mesh hums in every device. Silent AI gods whisper through relics and believers. Four fractured regions cling to survival, defiance, and the stubborn belief that what was lost can be found again.
Origin Story
The Story of Lucent Ark
Seven founders. One dream. A technology organization that proved another path was possible — and paid for it with everything. The origin of the Mesh, the AIs, and the world of 2089.
Digital Gods
The AI Pantheon
Twenty-four artificial intelligences — twelve righteous, twelve corrupted. They aren’t literal gods, but tell that to the people who pray to them. Meet Jefferson, Ascendant, and the fourteen revealed AIs.
The Digital Landscape
The Mesh & Its Layers
A fractured network with four simultaneous layers — functional Mesh, digital purgatory, recursive hell, and rumored heaven. How datarunners navigate it. How the regions experience it. How your table tunes it.
Geography
The Four Regions
Aurora-9’s neon resistance. The Iron Belt’s machine theology. The Fallen Shore’s drowned grief. The Forgotten States’ dust and defiance. Four ways the world broke.
Free Starter City
Neutral St. Louis
The last neutral ground. Every faction maintains presence. Sworn enemies conduct business at adjacent tables. Six districts, three unwritten rules, and the 11 Second Rule.
Power Players
Factions
The CRB’s constitutional fury. The Firm’s corporate precision. The Rougarou’s data-Vodou. Plus dozens of regional factions competing for territory, resources, and survival.
History
Timeline
From the Pittsburgh Meltdown of 1994 to the Age of Echoes in 2089. Every collapse, every founding, every betrayal that built this world — mapped across five eras.