It had been eight months since Nova Technologies released their pilot product, the Lucid device.
In that time, the hardware had received only a handful of direct updates, but each one had fundamentally reshaped digital society. The first was The Hub, a breathtaking virtual ecosystem where Lucid users could interact outside of gaming, wandering through shared digital landscapes that felt as real as the physical world.
The second was LucidNet, the platform that seamlessly bridged the exclusive off-world ecosystem with the rest of terrestrial humanity. By allowing Lucid users to effortlessly broadcast their gameplay and digital lives, LucidNet had swallowed the entire social media industry in just seven months, amassing a staggering 6.8 billion users. It was the undisputed digital town square of the human race.
