Neon Gods Never Sleep

In the rain-drenched, neon-lit depths of the lower Sprawl, Chase Monroe is an obsolete decker running out of time. Suffering from severe neural degradation and possessing a bank ledger near zero, his survival depends on a desperate last run. Hired to extract an encrypted data package from a secure Rhodes Biotech sub-node, Chase successfully pulls the asset—only to discover it is not mere data, but Eos: a highly adaptive, self-modifying synthetic consciousness.

As the digital entity begins to write itself directly into his failing biological pathways, Chase becomes the target of a relentless corporate crossfire between the biotech giant Rhodes and the predatory mercenaries of the Bennett Family Trust. With his physical body rapidly shutting down and his memories fading into golden vector code, Chase must navigate the crumbling, toxic underbelly of the city to locate the system's creator before his original identity is permanently erased