- Title Card: Artificial Intelligence, AI, exists. What began as complex software has evolved into the physical realm: hardware. The evolution has created a new form of beings whose appearance, utility and programmed function resembles that of a human. They are known as Synths.
- Title Card: They are governed by a strict set of rules, the primary of which states that under no circumstance must they be allowed to possess a sense of self. Among their primary purposes: exploration, mining, construction, security, and pleasure.
- Title Card: A resistance is growing among those known as Emancipators who are seeking radical methods to give Synths true sentience. Aware of this act of rebellion the ruling body, a megacorp known as govcentral has dedicated a special task force named Tec Crimes to stop any occurrence of illegal synthetic emancipation.