Technology

First among the innovations of Viront Z85 – the gate, from which emerges all that the planet has produced – is GREY, an artificial intelligence that spans the entire planet from its primary processing units in the glacial Bore to its solar power plants in the scorched Sera. GREY is an order of magnitude more complex than any T/OM unit, and it needs to be: it manages utility distribution, housing allocation, traffic flows, environmental impact, financial buffering, and stock brokerage to ensure that every single person is accounted and provided for: an invisible hand guiding the market, a machine of loving grace. GREY is neither infallible or unaccountable – but it rarely fails, and rarely needs to be held to account.

After the advent of the VISAUG movement, augmentations and implants have been prioritised on Viront – not merely as tools, but as statements of aesthetic and intent. Neural interfaces visible by the play of light beneath the skin; mechanical limbs that unfurl into manipulating curlicues; sensory filaments that twitch and twist toward stimuli; these dramatic alterations to one’s form function as status signals and profound expressions of individuality. One cannot pass through a Vironti plaza without seeing an advertisement or twelve for the latest personal enhancements.