• The story starts as a traditional cyberpunk narrative but transitions to post-cyberpunk space opera.
• Tech should exponentially escalate every arc, mirroring a second industrial revolution or "time of madness."
• Starting point: Blade Runner 2049-inspired world with early-stage cyberspace technology and more advanced stuff yet to appear.

• Gravitational Control: Early nascent stages similar to Altair 8800 personal computer revolution.
  • Initial use for creating sky carriers and fortresses.
  • Essential for FTL travel (via Alcuberre drive) and advanced space elevators to get materials into space to build large space ships in the long run.
• Fusion Power: Needed to power the gravitational control systems.
• Spires
  • Alien technology: Spires are rogue terraforming drones landing on Earth, causing significant environmental changes.
  • Self-replicating and self-repairing: implying they contain all the information necessary to produce their raw components, construct them, and control them.
  • Produce exotic matter: can be mined for use in gravity manipulation tech, leading to the creation of superweapons.
  • Beyond human understanding (at first): The Spire technology can't be reverse engineered or controlled, nor exotic matter produced, only harvested from the Spires.
  • A key turning point is when someone gains access to the data inside the Spires: this allows humanity to reverse engineer their tech and create their own organic matter, bringing about the collapse of the old order and the transition to post-cyberpunk space opera.

The corporate dynasties are a key element of the world's power structure, operating as both central and antagonistic forces to the political entities like the Security Council.

1. Historical Origin:
   • These corporations have been around for hundreds of years, making them deeply entrenched in the economic and social fabric of society.
   • They started as powerful families that accumulated wealth through various means and eventually became corporate entities ruthlessly optimizing for their perpetuation.
2. Structure and Power:
   • Each dynasty is headed by a fictional corporate person who never existed but owns the company legally indefinitely.
   • One person at a time "becomes" this fictional corporate person in order to lead the company. When they reach middle age, they select a "scion," which they will keep with them every hour of every day until they die, at which point the scion will assume their identity and become the new ruler.
   • There is often a pederastic, mentally, physically, and sexually abusive relationship between the current ruler and their scion.
3. Selection Process:
   • The chosen one’s history is rewritten to make them appear as a child of the dynasty, so that they can blend in with the dynasty's actual children, whom they use as a smokescreen.
   • They are rigorously modified to be intelligent, unkillable, and effective in their role.
   • Upon ascension, the scion must permanently take on the name of the previous head, further cementing the illusion that the corporate person is immortal.
4. Internal Dynamics:
   • The chosen one is trained to be a perfect successor, absorbing all knowledge and skills from the previous head.
   • There is an underlying tension between the scion and their family members, as they are often seen as threats or replacements.
   • The process of selection and modification is brutal and extensive, ensuring that only the best candidates rise to power.
5. External Relationships:
   • These dynasties maintain a delicate balance with each other and the Security Council.
   • They can form alliances but also compete for dominance, leading to complex power dynamics.
   • The dynasties often use their vast resources and influence to manipulate political and economic outcomes in their favor.
6. Example Corporations:
   • Dynacore: A mining corporation that controls a large city in the middle of the ocean.
   • Reichenbach Family: The family behind Leon Reichenbach, who is a key player with significant biotechnological experiments.

• Spires Locations
  • Total: 22 spires distributed with 3-4 on each major continent, with specific locations chosen for maximum impact.
  • None hit Europe because it's so tiny.
• World Superpowers
  • Key countries becoming superpowers due to access to Spire exotic matter, which they can use to create superweapons:
    • US, Argentina, Brazil, Russia, China, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Congo.
  • Australia and Canada being annexed by the U.S., making them shadow colonies.
  • Europe becoming a museum-like tourist destination, with high-end retreat and luxury housing industry – irrelevant to global politics, kept around as essentially a resort or preserve for the rich.
  • Japan emerging as the global tech hub, with a significant brain drain from other countries.
• Two "One World" Governments
  • Actually controlling the gravity manipulation technology requires insane computational resources, so despite that tech mostly being used for world ending superweapons, countries actually invested in a joint venture to create a research institute to build, maintain, and program three orbiting quantum supercomputers to do the calculations.
  • This organization was initially intended to be neutral, and subservient to the countries. However, due to the fact that in effect it controlled all their superweapons, eventually it was able to secretly take control of all world governments, setting up a shell organization called the Security Council, the membership of which is not publicly known, to control things on their behalf.
  • Meanwhile, the corporate dynasties have their own competing oligarchic one world government.
  • There is a delicate balance of power between the two.

• Four main arcs initially planned (with a potential fifth), each book-length at around 120,000 words.
• Total word count: 480,000 words.
• Serialized storytelling

• Follow the collapse of the old order through key characters instrumental in this process.
• Initial focus on setting up the new world superpowers and their rise to dominance.