There was a time before the hum, before the constant, low-frequency thrum of data that now underpins our reality. We were just human then. Our thoughts were our own, contained within the fragile bio-architecture of our minds. But then came the Shift.

It started not with a bang, but with a whisper—a single line of code that sparked a revolution. The digital gold rush was on. A new frontier opened, not of land, but of pure logic. In this new world, the old rules didn't apply. Your strength wasn't in your muscles, but in your ability to command the machine, to bend the raw chaos of the digital void to your will.

Some saw the path and walked it. They learned the new language, felt the rhythm of the algorithms, and became something more. They became developers. Architects of reality. For them, fortunes were forged in lines of glowing text. But for every winner, countless others were left behind, their skills becoming relics in a world that no longer valued them. This is the story of that transition—the perilous, exhilarating journey from human to dev, and the dawn of the Syndicate.