Brennan White - Week 2 HW

Midas Touch Fairytale/ Cyberpunk 

The year is 2052 and human augmentations with cybernetics has become commonplace not just for people who have lost limbs but for everyone looking to improve themselves in nearly anyway possible as any limb can be replaced with something to improve performance. The main character is Geoff Knight who was a former police officer and was later moved to a job in the CIA and has undergone cybernetic augmentations in order to improve his investigation abilities as he hunts down rogue corporations. They are using their money and political status to perform human experiments in order to create better cybernetics. He is driven by the Atlas Corporation one of the largest in the U.S. was responsible for his family losing their home and his parents having fallen into poverty from their jobs being lost as well. His father eventually died after they lost their home and lived on the streets for a time. He doesn't want these corporations using their influence to push out people and ruin lives like they did to his family. This includes an experimental arm augmentation which can integrate objects into his cybernetic arm and also turn objects into augmentations for himself. However he begins to rely too much on this new found power. It is quickly helping him to raise in ranks in the intelligence agency since he can gather information at will and make use of found weapons more easily than anyone else. He slowly loses control over what objects he can choose to turn into cybernetics and what can’t and it comes back to haunt him. Tie in to Midas Touch- He was given the ability to turn something he touches into cybernetics and even assimilate them into his cybernetic limbs. At first he has complete control over the ability and can assimilate weapons to improve his fighting potential, or even assimilate computers to mine them for information. Except as he uses this ability more he slowly loses his control over the ability and to choose what he touches that will be turned into cybernetics even the people closest to him begin to suffer as his ability runs out of control. Location: Takes place in downtown los angeles