Contractor
A soldier home from the mining belts, drinking alone. A rich man sits down and makes him an offer.
ACT is a co-op shooter and social hub set in Megacity 0, a corporate city where every fight is a job. The helmets, armour and guns you own are tradeable assets, and they follow you into every game.
Megacity 0 is built like a mountain over the freight port that feeds it, and the mountain is called Carcosa. The families that own the city live at the summit. Below them are the professional districts, then the lower quarters, then the port itself, where daylight has never reached. Nobody here goes to war for an idea. A corporation has a problem, it hires soldiers, the problem goes away, and whoever is still standing gets paid.
A soldier home from the mining belts, drinking alone. A rich man sits down and makes him an offer.
A new engineer on a bore between the crust and the mantle. Nobody will say what happened to the last crew.
A hired gun on a factory floor in the far east, keeping very still. The job was supposed to take an afternoon.
A man sells drawings of his dreams for food tokens. One morning a woman offers to buy something else.